Open Your Business Rules!
Rules-based
Operational Decision Services
Executable Decision Models
OpenRules® enables business analysts to represent and maintain their business logic in the form of Executable Decision Models. They use familiar tools such as MS Excel or Google Sheets to develop, test and maintain their decision models.
Business Rules Repository
OpenRules® utilizes commonly used tools that enable business analysts to create and maintain an enterprise-class Business Rules Repository. Such a repository may be used across an enterprise as a foundation for various decision services with complex business logic.
Goal-Oriented Decision Models
OpenRules® supports a goal-oriented approach to decision modeling allowing business users to create complex decision models capable to reach multiple business goals and subgoals. Watch the video "Goal-Oriented Business Decision Modeling with OpenRules" to see how to build and test decision models using OpenRules.
Hands-On Decision Modeling
OpenRules® allows subject matter experts to build executable decision models using multiple Excel files following the DMN standard. It supports very powerful decision tables defined by the DMN and allows a user to create custom decision tables that go beyond DMN.
Top-Down Decision Design
OpenRules® supports top-down design of decision models. It allows business analysts to build libraries of loosely-coupled decision models and use them to assemble more complex decision models.
Business Expressions
OpenRules® allows business people to write complex formulas using DMN Friendly Enough Expressions Language (FEEL) and/or snippets of Java code placed directly in Excel decision tables.
Business & IT Work in Concert
With OpenRules® business people create and test decision models and then involve IT to integrate them with the actual information systems. OpenRules clearly specifies all integration points.
Logic Defined by Business
With OpenRules® business people define business logic, create and execute test cases, and continue to maintain their decision models.
Across Enterprise Decisioning
OpenRules® allows decision makers on all enterprise levels from CEO to business analysts and developers to work together to create and maintain agile decision making applications.
OpenRules Classic is a general purpose Business Rules and Decision Management System that allows you to configure your own decision management system. For the last 15 years, it was used by major organizations worldwide to incorporate sophisticated decision logic into their business applications with one main objective:
"Create rules-based Operational Business Decision Services
for modern enterprises and quickly update
underlying business rules as market conditions change."
OpenRules comes with a methodology and proven
open source tools that enable business analysts to create
an enterprise-level Business Rules Repository. Such a repository may be used across an enterprise as
a foundation for various decision services with complex business logic.
OpenRules customers create and maintain
executable Decision Models using familiar graphical interfaces provided
by
MS Excel or
OpenOffice. Being integrated with
Google
Sheets, OpenRules supports
collaborative rules and
decision management.
The use of standard tools gives customers easy access to very powerful features including editing, searching, and integration capabilities.
OpenRules-based decision models are capable of
recognizing their own internal structure, discovering and
publishing all supporting business goals, and finally they
can automatically calculate their execution paths. Watch the
video "Goal-Oriented
Business Decision Modeling with OpenRules" to
see how to build and test decision models using
OpenRules Classic.
OpenRules projects may be deployed as regular Java programs, as web services, or on cloud. They can be naturally integrated into existing software infrastructures based on Java or .NET. A very detailed documentation and multiple examples are provided.
OpenRules Classic makes rules-based systems not only less expensive, but more importantly, easier to develop, and manage, and more sustainable. From multi-billion corporations to children's hospitals and innovative start-ups, OpenRules customers capitalize on their familiarity with popular tools such as MS Excel, Google Docs, and Eclipse IDE to effectively minimize their learning curve.
If you are new to OpenRules, we stringly recommend you to
consider the latest OpenRules Decision Manager with a
free evaluation.
You may analyze and execute predefined or your own decision models
using OpenRules Classic
Analyzer.
OpenRules, Inc. helps its customers to meet the increasing demand for very complex rule bases and high-transaction volumes, with simpler, more cost-effective solutions. OpenRules, Inc. stands behind all provided Open Source tools with premium Technical Support and related Consulting and Training Services.
