Rule Management

Business Rules and Expert Systems/AI … Friends or Foes?

by Ronald G. Ross on December 15, 2011

There are very important differences in the traditions of business rules vs. expert systems. Perhaps that’s why business rules had a completely different origin. In any case, they didn’t start finding each other until the late 1990s. (The first Business Rules Forum Conference was in 1997 … and every year since except in 2000.)
The general [...]

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Business Analysis & Business Rules – Announcing Our New Book and BBC 2011 Conference – **Special Discounts** for Friends and Colleagues

by Ronald G. Ross on September 23, 2011

Let me mention two important things happening soon and special discounts for them – Both discounts good only through **Friday, September 30**  
1. ANNOUNCING OUR NEW BOOK … Coming in October!
BUILDING BUSINESS SOLUTIONS: BUSINESS ANALYSIS WITH BUSINESS RULES … an IIBA Sponsored Handbook (304pp) … It’s all about taking Business Analysis to the next level of [...]

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Are BPM and EA a Perfect Match? … With Business Rules Far Better!

by Ronald G. Ross on September 1, 2011

@SergeThorn asks “Are Business Process Management and Business Architecture a perfect match?” http://goo.gl/kLYvs With business rules far better!
There is an important overlap of concerns between business rules and enterprise architecture. The overlap actually comes in two forms:
1. Operation-time. Here the issue is really rethinking compliance. I just blogged about this today: http://goo.gl/Gl9wT
2. Business-analysis-time. A business needs to know [...]

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