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
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
Fall-2011 Business Rules Conferences
In Oct-Nov 2011 OpenRules will participate in the following major Business Rules events: Continue reading
OpenRules 6.1.1 is available for downloads
A new release 6.1.1 further advances the Executable Decision Model introduced by the OpenRules-6 in March 2011. It provides new features based on the real-world feedback. In particular, the release 6.1.1 includes more advanced templates for for Decisions, Decision Tables, and Glossaries. It also allows a user to go beyond the limitations of the Decision Model by adding different kinds of decision tables that support rules overrides. 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
OpenRules at Business Analyst World in PA on April 4-7, 2011
Now, when OpenRules-6 really allows business analysts to create and execute decision models without help from IT, we started to concentrate more on business analyst events. Continue reading
OMG Decision Model Notation (DMN)
On March 23, 2011 I attended the Object Management Group‘s Decision Modeling Notation (DMN) day in Arlington, VA. There were very interesting presentations from vendors and practitioners devoted to decision modeling in general and decision tables in particular – see the detailed report at the James Taylor’s blog. You may find more information about the DMN in this article. 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
A newly redesigned website
A newly redesigned website www.openrules.com is up and running now. Hopefully our customers and visitors will find it much more attractive and convenient. We are in process to create a new User Manual that will reflect all new capabilities of the Release 6. Continue reading
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
A major new release 6 is on the way
OpenRules is completing beta testing and documentation for a new release 6 that will allow subject matter experts to create, test, and execute decision models without IT involvement. No Java snippets, no signatures with parameters, no coding is required! You may get a first glimpse of OpenRules-6 at http://openrules.com/decision_model_primer.htm.
Rule Solver is now JSR-331 Compliant
OpenRules has announced that its redesigned Rule Solver™ is now JSR-331 compliant. Rule Solver™ is a long time available optimization component of OpenRules® BRMS that allows users to define and solve constraint satisfaction and optimization problems within a business rules environment. Continue reading
RulesFest-2010
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This year Rules Fest will be held on October 11-14, 2010 in San Jose, CA. This event brings together technical experts and practitioners in decision support technologies. Continue reading |
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