FICO (NYSE:FIC) transforms business by making every decision count. FICOs Decision Management solutions give organizations the power to automate, improve and connect decisions across their business. Clients in 80 countries work with FICO to increase customer loyalty and profitability, cut fraud losses, manage credit risk, meet regulatory and competitive demands, and rapidly build market share. Among FICOs products are the leading credit score, the leading card account management software, the leading card fraud protection software, and leading tools for business rules management and optimization. FICO is recognized as a pioneer in predictive analytics, having introduced credit scoring to the banking industry in the 1960s, and continues to create innovative applications of analytics for financial services, insurance, retail, healthcare and other industries. Learn more at www.fico.com.

Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG) is a global leader in relationship management. We provide solutions that drive more value from the relationships our clients have with their customers and employees. Convergys turns these everyday interactions into a source of profit and strategic advantage for our clients. For more than 30 years, our unique combination of domain expertise, operational excellence, and innovative technologies has delivered process improvement and actionable business insight to clients that now span more than 70 countries and 35 languages.

Convergys Dynamic Decisioning Solution (DDS) is a key component of Convergys relationship management solutions portfolio. It identifies the specific customers needs, makes real-time decisions, and provides actionable multi-channel responses focused on increasing revenue, decreasing costs, and reducing churn.

Convergys is a member of the S&P 500 and has been voted a Fortune Most Admired Company for nine consecutive years. We have approximately 75,000 employees in 84 customer contact centers and other facilities in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and our global headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information, visit www.convergys.com

Delta-R is a company specialized in the advanced management of business rules. Its onRules platform is a cutting-edge BRMS (Business Rule Management System) which allows users to define, test and deploy complex business rules quickly and dynamically. Delta-R complements this platform with specific consulting services oriented towards the development of predictive models and the generation of business rules. At Delta-R, its BRMS platform is combined with specialized consulting services in order to offer a complete solution to the customer, capable of optimizing the management of its business rules.

Innovations’ Visual Rules is the only Business Rules Management System (BRMS) where the rules are exclusively defined graphically. This graphical modeling is a historic technological leap that empowers business users to intuitively define, simulate and test their logic and then automatically generate Java and Web Services. Projects are reporting 50% to 90% reduction in development time and costs. Leading experts are now endorsing Visual Rules which has ten years of growing success. In addition, Visual Rules has now incorporated the most advanced enterprise and business architecture methodology.

Pegasystems, the leader in Business Process Management, provides software to drive revenue growth, productivity and agility for the world’s most sophisticated organizations. Customers use our award-winning SmartBPM® suite to improve customer service, reach new markets and boost operational effectiveness.

Our patented SmartBPM technology makes enterprise applications easy to build and change by directly capturing business objectives and eliminating manual programming. SmartBPM unifies business rules and processes into composite applications that leverage existing systems empowering businesspeople and IT staff to Build for Change®, deliver value quickly and outperform their competitors.

Pegasystems’ suite is complemented by best-practice frameworks designed for leaders in financial services, insurance, healthcare, government, life sciences, communications, manufacturing and other industries.

Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Pegasystems has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. Visit us at www.pega.com.

Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS) is the recognized world leader in the advancement of the Business Rule Approach. Our principal, Ronald G. Ross is acknowledged globally as the “father” of business rules. BRS provides the complete set of services and the expertise that enable organizations to apply the business rule approach effectively, quickly, and successfully. BRS offers public seminars, in-house training, publications, tools, and Proteus®, the internationally acclaimed and proven business rule methodology.

Decision Management Solutions provides consulting and implementation services in all aspects of Decision Management. Decision Management improves business performance by identifying the key decisions that drive value in your business and improving on those decisions by leveraging your companys assets: expertise, data and existing systems.

Experians Decision Analytics business combines data intelligence, analytics, software and consulting to help clients optimize profitability and improve performance. Its enterprise-wide decisioning capabilities enable clients to manage and mitigate credit risk; prevent, detect and reduce fraud; meet regulatory obligations; and gain operational efficiencies. Trusted by leading businesses worldwide, Experians Decision Analytics business provides the intelligence to make accurate and informed decisions to help clients better manage their customer relationships.

Experian plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index. Experian has corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, and has operational headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif., and Nottingham, UK. The Group employs approximately 15,500 people in 38 countries worldwide, supporting clients in more than 65 countries around the world. Continuing sales for the year ended March 31, 2008, were in excess of $4 billion.

For more information, visit www.experianplc.com

RuleXpress by RuleArts is a software tool aimed toward the business-level capture, analysis and management of business rules, including the terms and facts that support them. It is intended to be a business-friendly tool for business workers to use directly in developing guidance (business rules and/or other elements of governance) for the business in business terms, as well as the business glossaries to support them.

As the business process management (BPM) trailblazer, Savvion moves enterprises beyond ordinary BPM with groundbreaking business-critical software, solutions and services that make them more competitive and cost-efficientespecially in tough economic times.

Savvion enables business and IT to collaboratively deploy process improvement initiatives in as few as 30 days and deliver a return on investment as high as 300%. More than 300 of the worlds top-performing companies, including 22 of the Fortune 100, choose Savvion to operate more productively and profitably. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Savvion can be reached at www.savvion.com or 888-544-5511.

Equifax provides the information and technology necessary for businesses to know more about their customers and prospects. Expanding upon our role as the trusted steward of credit data, Equifax Technology Services has grown into the leading provider of information that is fueled by technology and analytics. We are a leading strategic advisor on credit applications, consumer loan originations, credit line assignments and more. In fact, 30 of the top 50 banks as ranked by American Banker use our technology-driven decisioning platforms. Equifax Technology Services enables our customers to reduce costs, identify new revenue opportunities and achieve greater return on investment. www.equifax.com

OpenRules, Inc. offers methodology, proven open source tools and services that enable business analysts to work in concert with software developers to create and maintain Rules-based applications with complex business and presentation logic.

OpenRules® is a full-scale BRMS, Business Rules Management System. It provides a powerful while simple suite of open source components for Rules-based Application Development. Using familiar tools such as MS Excel, Google Spreadsheets, and Eclipse IDE, you may create complex decision support systems around an enterprise-class Business Rules Repository. OpenRules facilitates involvement of business people in the rules development and maintenance; it offers the power of BRMS without sacrificing simplicity.

BPTrends (www.bptrends.com) is the primary source of business intelligence for business executives and process change practitioners around the globe. Industry thought leaders provide analysis and opinion on trends, directions and best practices relating to all aspects of business process management. BPTrends is the most comprehensive, in-depth business process management resource devoted to educating and informing the market. The BPTrends BP Tools Reports are the most widely read reports on BP software tools available and our BPTrends Surveys are widely quoted. With over 20,000 members, BPTrends is the largest community of BP Professionals in the world. BPTrends Associates provides BPM professional services to organizations, assisting them in the planning, architecting, designing, measuring and managing of their business processes.

Business Rules Community, sponsored by Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS), is a vertical, non-commercial community for business rule professionals. BRCommunity provides articles, commentary, discussion areas, and a variety of other valuable hands-on resources, and is home to the Business Rules Journal, which appears there free-of-charge. BRCommunity.com is much more than simply an on-line publication. With the help of a talented staff and generous supporters, it has grown into the place to be for business rules. Join today free-of-charge!

The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) is the premier association focused on the architecture profession through the advancement of best practices and education while delivering programs and services to IT architects of all levels around the world.

Established in 2002, IASA is an international non-profit business association dedicated to the advancement and sharing of issues related to software architecture in the enterprise, product, education and government sectors.

The association is committed to improving the quality of the IT architecture industry by developing and delivering standards, education programs and developing accreditation programs and services that optimize the development of architecture profession. IASA membership consists of approximately 6,000 members located in over 50 countries.

IIBA® is the independent non-profit professional association serving the growing field of Business Analysis. Whatever your rolerequirements management, systems analysis, business analysis, requirements analysis, project management, or consultingIIBA® can help you do your job better.

Information Systems analysts have long been able to describe an enterprise in terms of the structure of the data the enterprise uses and the organization of the functions it performs. Unfortunately, there is often neglect of the rules (constraints and conditions) under which the enterprise operates.

Frequently these rules are not articulated until it is time to convert them into program code. While rules that are represented by the structure and functions of an enterprise have been documented to a degree, others have not been articulated well, if at all.

The Business Rules Group (BRG) was organized to carry out that articulation.

The Object Management Group (OMG) is an open membership, not-for-profit consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications. Our membership includes virtually every large company in the computer industry, and hundreds of smaller ones. Most of the companies that shape enterprise and Internet computing today are represented on our Board of Directors.

Our flagship specification is the multi-platform Model Driven Architecture (MDA), recently underway but already well known in the industry. It is based on the modeling specifications the MOF, the UML, XMI, and CWM. OMG’s own middleware platform is CORBA, which includes the Interface Definition Language OMG IDL, and protocol IIOP. The Object Management Architecture (OMA) defines standard services that will carry over into MDA work shortly. OMG Task Forces standardize Domain Facilities in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, and others.

The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications.