Sentences V.4.0 includes Business Rules. (Database & Network News and Products).Lazy Software have announced the development of `Business Rule Automation' for release in Sentences Version 4.0. Business Rule Automation is designed to enable business managers to define and effect changes to business processes within applications based on the Associative Model of Data The associative model of data is an alternative data model for database systems. Other data models, such as the relational model and the object data model, are record-based. These models involve encompassing attributes about a thing, such as a car, in a record structure. . This it is claimed is possible only through the unique structure of the Associative as·so·ci·a·tive adj. 1. Of, characterized by, resulting from, or causing association. 2. Mathematics Independent of the grouping of elements. Model. Business Rule Automation gives managers control over the behaviour of applications without the continual intervention of programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists . A rule might be `Let's give our good customers an extra 1% discount on big orders over Christmas'. `Good customers" and `big orders" are often sophisticated commercial judgements that take into account data from many different places in a database: whether a customer is a `good customer' may depend on their order size and frequency, how quickly they pay, their longevity longevity (lŏnjĕv`ĭtē), term denoting the length or duration of the life of an animal or plant, often used to indicate an unusually long life. and many other factors. Somewhat like the `Out of Office' feature within Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook , the rules can be switched on and off or amended as required. Comment: The structure of an associative database is constant no matter how many different types of information are stored, so the process of navigating around the database to check rules can be automated. By contrast, a relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. uses a different table for every single type of information, so a lot of programming expertise is needed to locate and bring together all the pieces of information that determine a rule. Automating the process using a relational database has proved too complex to be viable, so programmers still have to amend programs by hand when rules change. www.lazysoft.com |
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