OpenRules Release 12.2.0 comes with a brand-new implementation of Rule Solver and Rule Scheduler. It extends the traditional FEEL-like expression language to incorporate optimization concepts—such as constrained variables, constraints, and objectives—directly into regular decision tables. Now, a human or AI modeler can use intuitive expressions to represent complex constraints using a mix of known and unknown decision variables directly inside decision tables.
Aletyx Decision Control Sandbox can automatically provision a complete decision automation platform on AWS in minutes, supporting DMN modeling, AI-powered features, and one-click publishing.
Bluebird Optimization shares a client success story in which uncertainty-aware inventory optimization produced a proof of concept with projected seven-figure inventory savings and improved service levels.
Order Otter is a browser-based replenishment tool that models demand and lead-time uncertainty, simulates candidate orders, and recommends the quantity with the best expected economics while showing service level, stockout risk, and leftover-inventory tradeoffs. It is a Bit Bros LLC product built for operations planners without requiring a data science team or ERP integration.
OpenRules released Decision Playground, a graphical tool that exposes optimization "Solution Pools" to business users so they can add last-minute constraints to deployed decision models without programmer involvement.
Aletyx made Decision Control Sandbox available on AWS Marketplace, providing a pre-provisioned environment for DMN modeling, AI-assisted features, and publishing decision services with minimal infrastructure setup.
OpenRules 11.1.0 enhanced Rule Learner so business users can generate working decision models from examples, then test and refine the generated rules and glossary.
IBM introduced Decision Intelligence, a generative-AI engine that interprets natural-language policy descriptions, automatically synthesizes business rules, and deploys models that learn from outcomes over time.
Aletyx launched with enterprise builds of Drools and Kogito, pairing open-source automation technologies with enterprise support, scalability, and GenAI integration capabilities.
NVIDIA and COIN-OR partnered to bring cuOpt, a GPU-accelerated optimization engine, into the COIN-OR open-source ecosystem for large-scale decision optimization.
RapidGen introduced large-scale testing and visualization for DMN models with Tableau integration. Its Test Data Generator can exercise millions of inputs to expose behavioral inconsistencies and measure robustness, performance, and resource requirements.
OpenRules introduced Rule Scheduler at DecisionCAMP 2024 as a Rule Solver component for representing and solving scheduling and resource-allocation problems with business-friendly decision models.
Sparkling Logic launched AI Assistant in SMARTS, using generative AI to help users create and modify decision assets, explain decision outcomes, and navigate product knowledge with natural language.
IBM highlighted a decision management portfolio spanning business experts through Java developers, with support for intelligent decisions, AI/ML integration, and generative-AI-assisted decisioning.
Sapiens Decision introduced ModelAI, a generative-AI copilot designed to convert natural-language descriptions into decision models and make decision automation more accessible to business users.
IBM released Business Automation Manager Open Edition (BAMOE) 9.0, introducing new IBM Decision Manager and Process Automation Manager Open Editions as cloud-first, subscription-based successors to the Red Hat products.
IBM published an updated FAQ on IBM Process Automation Manager and Decision Manager Open Edition, the products formerly known as Red Hat Process Automation Manager and Red Hat Decision Manager.
Geoffrey De Smet and team spun the seventeen-year-old OptaPlanner open-source planning-optimization project out of Red Hat into a new company, Timefold, to give it a dedicated commercial home.
IBM made Automation Decision Services available as a standalone offering, giving business experts an easier, low-code way to automate intelligent business decisions.
OpenRules 9.1.0 introduced a friendlier way to express iterations over collections of business objects, reducing patterns that previously required multiple tables to a more intuitive single-table form.
IBM announced that Red Hat is transferring its Process Automation Manager and Decision Manager product lines to IBM, with version 7.13 as Red Hat's last release before future versions ship under IBM.
LPA released an updated VisiRule with VisiRule Visualizer, giving authors spatial and radial views for inspecting decision-tree structure alongside enhanced chatbot and HTML delivery capabilities.
At DecisionCAMP 2020, IBM demonstrated how its Automation Decision Services incorporates machine-learning predictions alongside business rules to produce fully executable, no-code retention decisions.
OpenRules 8.1.2 introduced a new execution mechanism for very large decision tables, reporting performance improvements of 10 to 100 times while also reducing runtime licensing costs.
Rulesmatix offered a lightweight BPM framework for implementing simple and complex workflows with automated and manual steps, external-service integration, queues, roles, and rules-engine integration.
2019
FICO
FICO World 2019 showcases real-time decisioning and optimization
November 1, 2019
FICO World 2019 in New York highlighted customer case studies, analytic innovation, real-time customer decisions, cybersecurity, and optimization practices.
Sparkling Logic added Real-time Decision Metrics to SMARTS, allowing organizations to monitor the business quality of deployed decisions and trigger alerts when configured thresholds are reached.
OpenRules added one-click AWS Lambda deployment so business analysts could publish Excel-based decision models as serverless decision services without manually configuring the AWS deployment stack.
AMPL provided a mathematical modeling language for formulating and deploying large-scale optimization models while connecting modelers to a broad range of optimization solvers.
FlexRule presented an end-to-end decision automation platform for managing complex operational decisions across industries including finance, insurance, healthcare, and energy.
IBM Operational Decision Manager 8.10 provided a platform for automating rules-based business decisions across on-premises and cloud environments, including use cases such as authorization, promotion, and cross-sell decisions.
Kogito introduced a cloud-native business automation approach built on technologies such as Drools and jBPM, with a focus on running intelligent applications at scale in modern cloud environments.
InRule Metrics enabled organizations to capture rule and field values during decision execution and analyze decision outcomes and business KPIs through downstream analytics tools.
Teal Partners introduced a next-generation rules-based payroll system designed to manage complex payroll and taxation logic while improving decision automation.
Trisotech highlighted business-friendly tooling for integrating machine learning into explainable, auditable decisions and orchestrating decision services through modern API-based automation.
OpenRules Decision Manager 8.0.1 automated the packaging needed to deploy classical business decision models as AWS Lambda functions, reducing the amount of cloud-specific coding and configuration required.
Dr. Jacob Feldman released Java Solver, a free open-source (LGPL) Java API for modeling and solving optimization problems that can be paired with existing constraint and linear solvers.
Sparkling Logic introduced Dynamic Questionnaires, letting web applications collect user responses and apply business policies to make near real-time decisions.
IBM announced its largest-ever acquisition, agreeing to buy Red Hat — bringing Red Hat Decision Manager and Drools under the same roof as IBM Operational Decision Manager.
IBM's Paul Shaw presented a decade-long retrospective on CP Optimizer, one of the most widely used
constraint-programming engines for scheduling and combinatorial optimization problems.
Sparkling Logic released SMARTS Rio, improving usability, scalability, and security for business and data analysts building data-informed decisions, and became a Decision Management Community sponsor.
Oracle's Process Cloud Service added a preview DMN engine with a graphical modeler and DMN XML import/export, allowing sections of a process model to be replaced by a linked decision model.
Trisotech released a Digital Enterprise Suite update that simplifies DMN decision-logic creation, improves BKM-to-decision refactoring, adds FEEL function examples, and supports DMN 1.2's enhanced for-loops.
IBM launched Decision Composer, an experimental Bluemix service inspired by the DMN standard that lets developers graphically model the data and logic behind app decisions without writing code.
The open-source Drools rules engine added full run-time support for DMN at compliance level 3 in its
upcoming 7.0 release. As of January 2017 the implementation was feature-complete, with the team
working through remaining nice-to-have capabilities and bug fixes ahead of the release.
OpenRules introduced Why-Analyzer, a graphical tool that lets business analysts trace the business rules behind the results produced by a DMN decision model.
FICO released a free DMN Modeler on its Analytic Cloud, supporting the OMG DMN standard and allowing models to be deployed as decision services within the FICO Decision Management Platform.
Trisotech added a DMN Modeler to its product lineup as it became a Decision Management Community sponsor, extending its Digital Enterprise Suite into decision modeling.
Signavio, Alfresco, Omny Link, and Bruce Silver Associates formed a new open-industry initiative to provide an open-source reference implementation for automatically executing DMN models.
Sapiens announced that its Sapiens DECISION product now supports the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard, growing the list of DMN-compliant vendors.
Signavio announced DMN support in its Process Editor, becoming one of the first vendors, alongside Sparkling Logic, to back the newly finalized decision-modeling standard.
Sparkling Logic announced that its SMARTS Pencil product now supports the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard, joining early DMN implementers OpenRules and Sapiens.
Auckland-based IDIOM released new versions of its full product suite — IDIOM Decision Manager 4.1, IDIOM Forms 1.0.7, and IDIOM Workbench 3.1 — continuing its 13-year track record in policy and decision automation software.
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2025
Aletyx — Offers a “Decision Control Sandbox on AWS” for rapid decision-intelligence deployment, providing DMN modeling with AI features and one-click publishing. Decision Control is powered by the Aletyx Enterprise Build of Drools. Available via AWS Marketplace.
OpenRules — Release 11.1.0 introduces an enhanced “Rule Learner” machine-learning product that generates working decision models from business-problem examples, with “Lenses” and “Credits” example templates. Free installation available with model generation and refinement capabilities.
RapidGen — Offers large-scale DMN model testing with Tableau visualization integration. Its Test Data Generator identifies logic flaws and behavioral inconsistencies, supporting millions of test items for robustness measurement, and integrates machine-learning components as needed.
IBM Decision Intelligence — Describes a “paradigm shift from static rule engines to AI-native decision making,” interpreting natural-language policy descriptions and automatically synthesizing business rules with AI-native deployment.
2024 and Earlier
Additional vendors featured in past entries include Sparkling Logic, Sapiens Decision, IBM Automation Decision Services, InRule, Trisotech, FlexRule, and Kogito, among others, with various decision-automation and optimization announcements.
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