Dealing With Unknown Data
DMCommunity.org published an interesting challenge “Greeting a Customer with Unknown Data” that deals with the real-world decision modeling issue: your decision model has to…
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DMN
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Developing Custom Decision Modeling Languages with Enhanced DMN
The modern Business Rules and Decision Management Systems help users to move business logic from a code to business rules controlled by subject matter experts (not developers). In…
OpenRules Release 6.4.0 Supports DMN FEEL and DMN Interchange
OpenRules, Inc. was among the first Business Rules vendors who announced its support of the DMN standard and published a DMN Primer implementation just two weeks after the first…
DMN Interchange
The DMN 1.1 standard includes a new interchange format that soon will become public. Meanwhile, DMCommunity Apr-2016 Challenge provides a very simple xml-file for the decision…
Business Rules and Tacit Knowledge
Listening several recent presentations of Pragmatic Dave Thomas (see this and this), I cannot help getting back to the fundamental decision modeling problem: Rules vs. Tacit…
After bpmNEXT-2016
Today was the last day of bpmNext-2016 – a great event concentrated around 3 closely related technologies and their standards: BPMN, CMMN, and DMN. You may look at the program to…
“Monkey Business” Analyzed
I decided to add the decision model "Monkey Business" to our new What-If Analyzer. It brought several considerations missed by other solutions. In this post I will discuss my…
bpmNEXT 2016
This year OpenRules will participate in the bpmNEXT 2016 that will take place at Santa Barbara, CA on April 19-21, 2016. This is a very selective conference that does not allow…
Decision Model for Vacation Days Calculation
This month DMCommunity.org asked to present the best design of the notorious decision tables offered by Prof. Jan Vanthienen. It should implement the following business logic:
OpenRules 6.3.4 Introduces What-If Analyzer of Decision Models
On December 28, 2015 we published a new OpenRules release 6.3.4 that introduces What-If Analyzer, the first tool of this type in the Decision Management domain. Its main purpose…
Don’t Program a System, Educate It!
Modern decision management techniques enable business decisions by supporting a path from data to decisions and actions. Wherever people use stand-alone Business Rules, Complex…
OpenRules Business Glossary in Multiple Tables
By default OpenRules provides a glossary template that allows our customers to create their own business glossary in one table. Below I will explain how to split a glossary…