Past, Present and Future of Business Rules (Redux)
Blog: Process Modeling 2.0
It has been over 3 years since we released the white paper, the Past Present and Future of Business Rules. The paper has been widely distributed and we managed to generate many discussions, some of them were heated. My colleague, Christina Gruen suggested I update this and subsequently I have updated the paper and prepared a webinar. You can register for the webinar here:
To recap: the business rules approach (or operational decision management) BRA/ODM has principally evolved from three sources: Artificial Intelligence, Data Modeling, and Business Process Management. In the white paper, I explained the differences between the sequential logic approach and the inferencing approach adapted from expert systems. I have experience with both and clearly my bias is towards sequential, graphical approaches. However, inferancing and functional programing is critical for developing decision analytics. Strict formalism in business requirements may sound desirable; yet it creates a lot of work of questionable value for the business analysts and the technician. Organizations are frequently ‘stuck’ in heavy; difficult to maintain environments in many large-scale business rules systems in finance and health care.
Having been involved with many of the standards and practices, I am hearing surprising rumblings that There are development on the horizon that I will be game changers. OMG’s decision model notation is becoming more prevalent, plus other efforts are poised to shift the industry.
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