OpenRules Competitive Distinction
OpenRules is not simply a business rules engine with a nice decision modeling IDE. It is a Decision Intelligence Platform for engineering transparent, executable operational decisions.
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OpenRules Offers Free Decision Model Development
Like other Decision Intelligence (DI) platforms, OpenRules helps organizations build, deploy, and maintain complex, AI-ready decision services. But we also recognize a paradox:…
OpenRules.com → OpenRules.ai
After 23 years in business, our website, OpenRules.com, has accumulated a lot of material, and it is not always easy for first-time visitors to quickly find what matters to them.…
Rules and Constraints Working Together
We published an article that makes the case that rules are excellent for expressing business logic, constraints are excellent for defining and searching the space of feasible…
Notes from DecisionCAMP 2026
DecisionCAMP 2026 went into history a week ago. From August 25 to 28, we had four productive days filled with interesting presentations and lively discussions. All presentation…
Announcing DecisionCAMP 2027
Following the very successful DecisionCAMP 2026, we are pleased to announce DecisionCAMP 2027, which will take place September 14–16, 2027. Link
Democratizing Optimization through Decision Intelligence Platforms
On August 27, 2026 I presented "Democratizing Optimization through Decision Intelligence Platforms" at DecisionCAMP 2026. See Slides and watch Recording.
OpenRules AI Assistant in the Release 12.1.0
OpenRules Release 12.1.0 introduces the OpenRules AI Assistant — a graphical tool for testing business decision models in plain English and simulating various end-user interaction…
Business Rules with Probabilities
Real-world business decision models frequently contain both hard rules and soft rules that can be violated when necessary. Representing and maintaining such rules becomes even…
AI-Friendly Decision Services
LLMs aren’t decision-makers — at least not yet. But they’ve proven to be remarkably effective translators between natural language and domain-specific languages, unlocking access…
Agentic Medical Services
DMCommunity.org has posted a new April 2026 Challenge that aims to explore how LLMs orchestrate rule-based decision services. It describes three loosely coupled medical services…
Peter Norvig about LLMs
In December 2009, Peter Norvig—then the Director of Research at Google—delivered his lecture “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data,” at University College Cork. The alternative…