Business-people capabilities for business rules ...

• Capture
• Expression
• Validation
• Verification
• Visualization
• Management
• Publication
• Audit

• Built for use by business people and business analysts on their terms.
• Easy to use.
• Extensible, customizable, localizable.
• As-you-go quality assessment.
• As-you-go teaching ... self-instructional.
• Rule verification at the business level.
• Visualization at the business level.
• True natural-language support and deep semantic analysis.
• Down-to-earth knowledge management for everyday business activities.
• Completely methodology-independent.

What makes RuleXpress different?

• ... of, by, and for business people!
• Capturing the “smarts” of business people.
• Assisting expression, quality and visualization for business people.
• Enabling control and governance by business people.

What RuleXpress is not?!

• a rule or inference engine
• a modeling environment (e.g., UML tools such as Rational Rose)
• a taxonomy/terminology tool.
• a text processor.
• a controlled English tool.
• a general knowledge management tool.
• a traditional requirements management tool.

More on what RuleXpress is and isn't

• Business perspective ...
  RuleXpress is to business people and business analysts … as MS Word is to writers.
• IT perspective ...
  RuleXpress is to business people and business analysts ... as MS Visual Studio is to software developers.

Are there alternatives to RuleXpress for business-oriented rule management?

• You can use Word or Excel, but they simply don't scale.
• You can use rule engine tools, but they focus heavily on implementation.
• You can use IT requirements tools, but they aren't specialized for the job.