Business Rule Revolution: Running Business the Right Way - Softcover

Barbara Von Halle; Larry Goldberg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1600050131 ISBN 13: 9781600050138

Publisher: Happy About, 2006

Synopsis

Learn from an anthology of contributing authors and experts who share, step-by-step, how to justify and manage the ROI for the BR Approach. The book covers the business's perspective and the technology perspective.

Authors represent the healthcare industry, financial services experience, state and federal government experience, and senior practitioners spanning many industries.

This book accomplishes the following: 1) It is for managers and decision-makers who make things happen in their organization. 2) It addresses BRs as a leverage for agility, compliance, and corporate intelligence, as a key mechanism for engineering the business itself. 3) It is not meant to be read cover-to-cover. Business people will focus on section 2. Technical people will focus on section 3. 4) Together, the sections provide a step-by-step management approach that crosses business and IT barriers. 5) Real case studies are written by real people in well-respected corporations, government agencies, consultancies, and software vendors. 6) Leading technology is highlighted. 7) Present the possibilities that BR Approach can achieve for both business and IT

About this title

From the Back Cover

Taking care of business:
"Without a doubt, every contributor to this book is a hero in their own
right... None are afraid to share both good and bad so that readers can
grow from their experiences."
Barbara von Halle

"The requirement will be for enterprise-wide, integrated implementations
for immediate delivery."
John Zachman

"Business specifications are no longer requirements that support the
development of IT design.. they are the business configuration that is
expected to be loaded into the IT solution."
Neal McWhorter

"The implementation of this tool [at Oregon Public Employee Retirement
Systems] allowed us to consolidate business rule responsibilities from IT
(QA) systems staff to the primary business users after appropriate
training."
Larry Ward and Jordan Masango

"What proved most effective, then, was not a top-down, process-to-rules
approach, but one that iterated between both perspectives."
Art Moore and Michael Beck

"The delivery of the Rule Wizard [at Aetna] not only resulted in a huge
advancement in enabling the rule authors to write rules, but the rule
authors could now easily address rule quality and integrity, all without
much technical support."
John Semmel

Take care of technology:
"Rule architecture should be business-friendly...it should help the
business better understand, manage, maintain and update decision logic."
Gene Weng

"The core of a business is its business rules, which need to be protected
from deliberate or accidental misuse. A well-defined business rules
methodology, focused on business goals and objectives, addresses most of
the concerns."
May Abraham

"While the promise of BRMS is alluring, realizing the benefits requires
more than finding rules and integrating a business rule engine."
Brian Stucky

"As an ASP, Equifax manages the core environment, development and
maintenance of customer systems, with business rule maintenance performed
by the customers themselves."
Linda Nieporent

"The greatest ROI becomes possible when automating and improving
operational decisions across the enterprise."
James Taylor

Bring the two sides together:
"So we believe that agility is the single most important quality for a
competitive organization. Not technological agility, a necessary but
insufficient condition, but business agility."
Larry Goldberg

Edition details

• Publisher: Happy About
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1600050131
• ISBN 13: 9781600050138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324