Business Rules

From managing complex processes to routine auditing of business policies, business rules are an ideal choice for separating industry-specific knowledge from everyday IT. Traditional programming approaches are notorious for frequently trapping business logic and business processes in programming code. Using the power of rules as your enterprise decision management framework, ADAPA® allows for this critical knowledge to be extracted where it becomes accessible to non-technical personnel and, therefore, increases your business agility.

ADAPA® rules are dynamic to meet your ever changing needs, yet easy to maintain by your business users. Rules in ADAPA® are authored and audited in Microsoft Excel®. By following our industry-proven rules authoring methodology, this familiar tool allows for a flexible and concise rules grouping and organization. The result is a tabular representation of your business logic in a very intuitive format, not to mention the benefit that your users won’t have to spend time learning another tool since Excel is already available in most organizations.

ADAPA® rules leverage the power of the leading Java open-source rules engine Drools which is supported by a strong community of developers and JBoss, a division of Red Hat. This fast, highly efficient rules engine has proven its excellence in numerous commercial installations.

Key highlights of the Drools engine are:

• Supports the Java Rule Engine API (JSR-94), developed through the Java Community Process.
• Offers a fully functional rules engine which implements at its core the RETE algorithm.
• Minimizes the learning curve and empowers business users through Excel-based rules authoring.

ADAPA® further extends the core functionality of Drools by providing:

• Seamless integration of rules with predictive models. In this context, model execution can be fully managed by rules or the scores produced by models can be used to trigger the firing of rules.
• An innovative testing framework called DAV (Decision, Acceptance & Verification) which allows for regression testing and rules acceptance. Test data entered in Excel is matched against your rules set, to check for overlapping and to ensure consistency and completeness.
• The ability to author rules on multiple spreadsheets within the same Excel file.
• The capability to activate and partition rules into multiple stages thereby creating a process flow.
• An interactive, web-based management console for uploading and executing rules and DAV test files.

Given that ADAPA® is completely at ease with predictive techniques such as neural networks, it has the power to significantly extend the capabilities offered by traditional rules-based systems. Both technologies present immediate, objective feedback that increases customer satisfaction, ensures quality at greater volume, and opens new market opportunities.