Category Archives: Business Rules

Integrating Relational Databases and Decision Intelligence Platforms

This topic has been of interest to many rule engine vendors and practitioners for years. There was an interesting discussion about an integrated use of Business Rules and DB a year ago: https://lnkd.in/ecych49r What do you think today about the … Continue reading

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Challenge July-2025 “Rules with Regular Expressions”

This challenge gives vendors of different rules-based tools an opportunity to demonstrate how they handle business rules with regular expressions. They need to implement business rules such as below:

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Resolving Conflicts among Business Rules

Ron Ross again brought up the question of “Exceptions to Business Rules” to light (https://lnkd.in/eyemPWF2). Ron defines an exception to the rules as a foreseen, explicit set of circumstances in which different-than-normal guidance is to be followed. He gave an … Continue reading

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Removing Ambiguity in Business Rules

In his recent article “Being Unambiguous Beyond Reasonable Doubt in Expressing Rules” Ron Ross gave an example of the kind of ambiguity that policy interpreters, business analysts, and IT professionals deal with daily. It’s a sentence from the California 2014 … Continue reading

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The seven levels of artificial intelligence by Warren B. Powell

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Combining LLM and Rule Engine

A few month ago Mario Fusco (Drools project lead) wrote “Combining LLM flexibility and rule engine predictability“: “The power and flexibility that a well-trained Deep Learning model gives you is virtually infinite, but often, at least in some parts of … Continue reading

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IBM Business Automation Manager Open Edition 9.0

IBM presented BAMOE 9.0 – watch a webinar on Dec 13. It introduces new IBM Decision Manager and Process Automation Manager Open Editions that replace the corresponding Red Hat products: Tim Wuthenow explained that BAMOE is going to be a … Continue reading

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Challenge Aug-2023 “Soldier Payment Rules”

We decided to bring back Challenge “Soldier Payment Rules” which in 2017 received only two solutions. This is a good chance to demonstrate the expressive power of your DMN or other decision management tools. The proper decision model is supposed to assemble a … Continue reading

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Business Rules Manifesto – 20th Anniversary

Business Rules Manifesto is 20 years old and “it is as fresh as the day it was written. Only 2 pages, free, and translated into 18 languages, the Business Rules Manifesto ushered in a whole new way of thinking about … Continue reading

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Building Business Capability on May 8-12, 2023

Building Business Capability comes to Las Vegas, at the brand new Caesar’s Forum, on May 8–12, 2023. The conference enhances your ability to advance People, Product, Data, andKnowledge, to build your core leadership skills, to create a customer centric organization, … Continue reading

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