European Business Rules Conference 2005 : Rule Standards

ILOG Daniel Selman, Product Manager

Rule Standards

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Agenda

• The problem space

• The compliance use case

• Conclusions


Crisis

Regulation

Market

CompetitionInternal process

Change is guaranteed

Traditional Software and Change

… are incompatible

Business Software


Dynamic Markets

• Mergers and Aquisitions• Industry regulation

• BASEL, HIPAA, SOX etc.• From governments• From trade regulatory bodies

• Trading partner exchange• Telco local carriers• Regional offices• Affilates• Franchises• Parts supply, complex orders

• Personal privacy rules?


Complex Deployments

@

Indirect Channels

Direct Sales

Self Service

Direct Mail

Call Center

E-mail

Mobile

Acr

oss

To

uch

po

ints

Acro

ss Ap

plicatio

ns

Front-Office

Back-Office

Middle-Office

Accounting

Other Applications

JRules


Business Benefits of Business Rules

Impact Business Value

Business Agility • Faster reactive and proactive time to market

• Business users empowered to create &

manage rules previously hard-coded

Decision Making • Test rule-based scenarios at lower cost

Revenue Opportunities • Greater product pricing and service flexibility

allowing incremental revenue streams

Customer Satisfaction • More customizable service offerings

Regulatory Compliance • Greater visibility to regulatory bodies and

easier change processesSource: Gartner Research

Reduced IT labor costs


Compliance

Automated Controls

Fraud Detection

Financial controls

Data cleansing

Forms/Transactions Validation

Data Validation & routing

Eligibility

DB and OS Abstraction

Reference code

Rap

id P

roto

typ

ing

To

ols

Project Mgt Resources

ReferenceArchitecture Technical Guidance

Pro

fession

al Services

Object Model Add-ons

CRM, ERP EAI, BPM

Application Integration

Rules Templates

ILOG Compliance Solution Accelerator

RDBMS / JDO / JCA

Project Plan Template

Application Specific CodeILOG Products

Regulations(HIPAA, SOX, Patriot Act, IAS, etc.)

Internal PoliciesAutomated ControlsAutomated Controls


Automated Controls

Usage Scenario

ValidationData

Enrich or clean Data

Events andExceptions

Cases

Report

ManualProcessing

Automated ControlAutomated Control


Compliance Rule Templates

Policy rule samplePolicy rule sample

Case handling rule sampleCase handling rule sample


Edition

Reference Data OutputInput

Web Report

XMLCompliance

Case

Compliance

ComplianceRules

Engine

RulesRepository

RulesManagement

Console

XML Data

XMLCompliance

Events

ComplianceRules

MiddlewareData source

Web FormsModified

DataMiddlewareData source

Architecture

Rules Reporting


Status and ILOG involvement

Business Rules Standardisation

• Modelling BR: standardisation activities at OMG

• Production Rules Representation meta-model• Drafted by Fair Isaac (editor), IBM, ILOG, LibRT, Pega Systems (joined Nov. 05), RuleML

• Business Rules Management meta-model• Decision to issue RFP pending

• Business Semantics of Business Rules meta-model• ILOG monitors the activity; not actively involved in drafting the meta-model

• Executing BR: standardisation activities within the JCP

• JSR 94 (Java API for Rule Engines) released in August 04• Integrated by SUN into the JDK; now in maintenance mode • Daniel Selman (ILOG) is the current specification lead

• Sharing and exchanging BR: standardisation activities at WC3

• ILOG hosted and co-chaired W3C workshop on Rules Languages for Interoperability• 27-28 April 2005, Washington, DC• First step towards a Rules Representation activity in the W3C


Conclusions

• Strong standards will…

• Drive industry adoption – particularly in

govenment

• Simplify deployments

• Promote vendor competition

• Enable rule/policy exchange

• Create a 3rd-party tools market

• But… it is a difficult problem!

• PRR is making good progress

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