Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | BRF3 Track

SESSION TITLE

How To Choose A Business Rules Management System

SPEAKER(s):

Marty Saulenas Principal Rules Maven Boca Consulting

MAIN FOCUS OF PRESENTATION: Information Systems

FAMILIARITY WITH SUBJECT: Novice

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

This session offers practical guidance on choosing a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) that is the best fit for your organization?s requirements. A business rule engine (BRE) is the core component of a BRMS, but there are a number of other important components as well. The session surveys key components and features of BRMS?s, explains the strengths and weaknesses of different types of rule engines, and provides practical advice on how to select a BRMS and how to make the best use of the technology once you have chosen a product. What you will learn:

• Determine if you really need a BRMS
• Select the BRMS that matches your needs
• Make the best use of a BRMS in developing your application



ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):

Marty Saulenas has been intimately involved in the business rules game for three decades. As director of product management at Wang Laboratories in the 1980s, he was part of a small team that developed and marketed PACE, an early and successful rules-based development system. In the ?90s, as director of product management at Versata, he oversaw the development of a trigger-based (?data change?) rule engine built on a J2EE-compliant architecture. Since 2000, he has consulted widely on business process automation (BPM) and rule automation projects, with a focus on rules technology evaluations, and has gained experience with most of the popular rule engines on the market today.