In a recent Business Rules Awareness Survey (co-sponsored by the European Business Rules Conference and the Business Rules Forum Conference, March 2005), more than 70% of the respondents reported by the following concerns ...

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Failing to know the right rules produces frustration for workers. New rules are not put into effect on a timely basis. Changing existing rules is time-consuming because assessing impact is difficult. Changing existing rules is error-prone because assessing impact is difficult. No one in the company seems to know exactly what rules apply in a given situation. Behavior is inconsistent because rules are missing, ambiguous, conflicting or obsolete. IT keeps implementing the wrong rules. Effort spent harvesting rules fails to pay off because statements are ambiguous or incomplete. Projects are delayed due to incomplete requirements.

a general knowledge management tool. Publish the relevant rules to the appropriate workers using RuleXpress’s central guidance store. Know where your rules are at all times. Provide business workers with their own tools to specify and refine new rules directly. Navigate easily through hundreds or thousands of rules to find what you need. Use dependency diagrams to assess the impact of change visually. Verify the consistency of complete sets of rules automatically. Trace between your business rules and procedures. Categorize your rules in unlimited ways. Write clear and unambiguous business rules supported by as-you-type quality assessment. Ensure IT alignment by through precise communication of business guidance. Base your business rules on a shared “live” business vocabulary with clear definitions. Determine the completeness and quality of your rules directly, not as a by-product.