The latest rules conferences RulesFest-2011, BBC-2011, and RuleML-2011 were really great events in general and for OpenRules in particular. We announced a new constraint-based Rule Engine that is the first alternative to Rete-based implementations of a real inferencial rule engine. Continue reading
Category Decision Management
Rules vs. Decisions
There is a question posted yesterday at the OpenRules Discussion Group: “Is there a reason why you would steer actively away from Rules and into Decision?” Continue reading
Forrester about OpenRules
On July 5, 2011 Forrester Research published a report “Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms 2011”. Here is what it says about OpenRules:
“OpenRules have the most-aggressive approaches to business-expert authoring and typically requires less developer support than IBM ILOG, FICO Blaze Advisor, and JBoss BRMS.” Continue reading
James Taylor blogs about OpenRules
James Taylor posted several articles devoted to OpenRules BDMS:
– General Overview
– Rule Solver
– Rule Learner.
I just want to add a news which we have not shared with James yet: our latest release of Rule Learner can also present automatically discovered rules in the PMML format.
About OpenRules Scalability
Being in real-world production environment for many years, OpenRules Engine has a proven record of high efficiency and scalability. Several years ago some of our customers (a major European bank and a large government agency) assigned teams of people to do stress-testing of our product before they decided to use it instead of commercial counter-parts. The results were really good. Continue reading
New decision model videos are available
We have added several video sessions that explain how to use OpenRules to create and maintain different decision models. See the at http://openrules.com/videos.htm
OpenRules 6 Announced
On March 4 we announced the launch of our new major release OpenRules 6.0.1. It is a very important event in the OpenRules history and probably beyond. It actually brings us much closer to the initial BRMS promise. Continue reading
Connecting The Dots
On January 8, 2010 after the notorious “underwear bomber” attack Tom Davenport wrote:
“How easy is it to connect the dots? Granted, there were numerous indications of Abdul Mutallab’s evil intent. But it would have been difficult to put them together before the flight. Combining disparate pieces of information about people – whether they are customers or terrorists – is akin to solving a complex jigsaw puzzle.” Continue reading
OpenRules - Decision Intelligence Platform 