Budget-Minded BRMS

摘要

For companies struggling to improve responsiveness to changing business conditions, a BRMS (business rule management system) can make all the difference. A BRMS exposes the business logic of complex applications as sets of rules that can be changed more quickly and easily, allowing companies to adjust credit criteria or discounts for gold customers, for example, when the market dictates, instead of when the necessary C or Java programming skills are available. In the BRMS world, only ILOG's JRules and Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor have all of the features you'd want for a large enterprise deployment. In addition to rich toolsets for developers, these products include easy-to-learn, English-like rule-building languages and a variety of graphical interfaces that ordinary business people can understand and use. In companies that want large numbers of business people, with a variety of different skill sets, involved in configuring the application's rules ― and that are willing to pay a premium for ease of use ― either JRules(infoworld.com/378) or Blaze Advisor (infoworld .com/1067) is the way to go.