ILOGJRules

ILOGJRules:

ILOG JRules is a complete business rule management system (BRMS) for Java. ILOG JRules gives you the power to control your business policy changes—with confidence and without compromise.

No matter what the challenge, ILOG JRules provides comprehensive work environments for every user involved in managing and deploying business rules:

• Rule Team Server
  Business users—Manage and edit business rules with your own tools using your favorite web browser, and increase productivity.
• Rule Studio
  Developers—Effortlessly move between rules and code. Switching back and forth is as easy as moving a mouse. Debugging transitions seamlessly between source and rule engine.
• Rule Scenario Manager
  Business Users and Developers–Create and manage tests scenarios to verify your business rules and simulation business policy changes.
• Rule Execution Server
  System Administrators—Integrate rule management with your choice of platform and data storage. ILOG JRules supports every major runtime platform

Rule Team Server: Designed to enhance productivity, ILOG JRules Rule Team Server brings unsurpassed levels of usability and sophistication to business rule management. Distributed business teams collaborate with a powerful, easy to use, web environment to create, manage, validate and deploy business rules.

Features include:

• Guidance through templates, categories and a guided editor
• Error detection and online help
• Use of natural language
• Productivity tools such as queries and smart views
• A robust collaboration platform
• Permission management
• History and version tracking
• Baselines

Rule Studio: ILOG JRules Rule Studio is an Eclipse-based development environment for the development of rule applications. It allows integrated co-editing and debugging of Java code and rules.

Features include:

• Eclipse integration
• Auto correction in rule editing
• Code generation wizards
• A single interface repository
• Source code control integration
• Conflict and redundancy detection
• Easy deployment

Rule Scenario Manager: ILOG JRules Rule Scenario Manager is a framework for implementing powerful rule set testing and business simulation capabilities. It provides an integrated environment to verify the correctness of rules and simulate changes in business policy. Designed for customization, it can be tailored to enterprise data stores, deployment processes and reporting requirements.

Business users and developers can create and manage tests that invoke the rule engine and manage reference data used for testing and simulation. They can define and run scenarios such as executing a given rule set with given data, comparing results with given expected results and calculating key performance indicators (KPIs).

Developers can run batch simulation scenarios and compare a baseline scenario with a challenger scenario, varying either the data processed by rules, or the rules themselves. Developers can configure the test framework and run tests from JUnit.

Key features and benefits:

• Unit and regression testing—Ensure a rule or set of rules executes as expected.
• Functional testing—Execute a set of rules with data and check the results.
• Impact Analysis—Measure or verify the business performance of a rule set against a data set. Make the results available to external tools.

Rule Execution Server: ILOG JRules Rule Execution Server is a robust, J2SE and J2EE-compliant execution environment for deploying business rules to the leading web and application servers from IBM, BEA, JBoss, Oracle, and Apache.

Rule Execution Server includes components for synchronous, asynchronous and web service- based invocation of business rules, as well as a web administration console. It is fully integrated with ILOG JRules Rule Studio and Rule Team Server to support business rule deployment for both developers and business users.

System administrators can deploy, monitor and manage business rule executions through the Rule Execution Server administration web console, or through standards-based connectivity to enterprise system management tools such as IBM’s Tivoli and HP’s OpenView.

Key features and benefits:

• 24x7 execution—Change and deploy rules directly to an application server without having to restart the server.
• Performance—Achieve high-performance rule execution.
• Scalability—Add rules continually to address growing business needs.
• Security—J2EE components are protected with J2EE role-based security
• Integration— Package and deploy rulesets directly from the ILOG JRules RuleStudio or Rule Team Server.
• Ruleset management—Re-use rules easily to create applications and services using standard relational databases.
• Automation tools—Use automation tools to easily perform major management.