OpenRules 2019 Highlights
2019 has brought lots of innovations and positive developments for OpenRules and its customers. This post summarizes all the new capabilities and user experiences that we have…
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Decision Modeling
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Business Decision Modeling with Rule Engines and CP/LP Solvers
There are two major types of decision engines utilized by different Business Rules and Decision Management systems to execute business decision models: 1. Traditional rule engines…
Another Solution for DMCommunity Challenge “Recreational Fee”
Problem The DMCommunity Challenge Apr-2019 “Recreational Fee” is based on the following problem provided by Ron Ross: A city has created a decision table to determine appropriate…
One-Click AWS Lambda Deployment
OpenRules business decision models can be deployed as operational decision services utilizing the Serverless architecture provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), the most powerful…
Now Business Analysts can Deploy their Business Decision Models on Amazon Cloud
Nowadays rules-based business decision models are usually developed and maintained by business analysts or other subject matter experts (not by software developers). And more and…
Decision Manager – Introduction Video (3 mins)
On Aug. 1 we made OpenRules Decision Manager publicly available for the first time – everybody can download and try its free evaluation version. This 3 mins YouTube video provides…
OpenRules Java API became even Simpler
The latest OpenRules Release 8.0.0 comes with a new, very simple Java API for incorporation of business decision models created by business people in Excel into Java applications.…
Vertical and Horizontal Decision Tables
Traditionally, the majority of decision tables list their rules in the top-to-bottom order when different rules are placed in rows. Here is an example of a typical single-hit…
OpenRules at AWS
We are aggressively making OpenRules-based services available from cloud environments such as Amazon EC2. In particular, we’ve just re-deployed our Decision Model Analyzer from a…
Integrated Use of Rule Engines and Constraint/Linear Solvers
Operational business problems can be defined by a set of decision variables and a set of rules that specify relationships between these variables – see the formal definition. This…
Building Decision Models for DMCommunity.org Challenge “Balanced Assignment”
DMCommunity Sep-2018 Challenge “Balanced Assignment” gives an example of a complex business problem with a serious optimization component. This problem deals with the assignment…
Decision Model for DMCommunity Challenge “Recreational Fee”
The latest DMCommunity.org Challenge “Recreational Fee” is very simple, but I still wanted to show how to create the proper decision model using the OpenRules goal-oriented…