Business Rules vs. Database Rules A Position Statement

摘要

As the "new world order" of distributed objects permeates the world of information systems and object wrappers envelop our non-object systems, our business rule systems have an opportunity to expand beyond their existing home in database systems into the virgin territory which the object revolution has cleared. The development of these new, powerful rule systems will enable the debate to shift from the requirements issue to the question of how we can maximize the potential of explicit business rules to facilitate business change. The author believes that business rules will be carried through to explicit implementation on the basis of a risk and cost analysis and that explicit business rules will be a key technology in business environments in which frequent policy change is the norm.