Open Your Business Rules!
Rules-based
Operational Decision Services
Product News and Release History
News
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Nov 22, 2024.
Release 10.4.1 adds several useful features for building more
flexible JSON interfaces for OpenRules-based
decision services. |
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 Aug 1, 2024.
Release 10.4.0 is the Long-Term-Support (LTS)
release built in accordance with OpenRules
Lifetime Release Policy. |
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May 1, 2024.
Release 10.3.0 adds an ability to create complex
expressions using predefined functions for
collections of objects. Now it is also possible to
use external JSON files directly to test decision
models. |
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Jan 17, 2024.
Release 10.1.0 comes with essentially enhanced
RuleSolver and
RuleDB, plus various improvements of the core
product. See
Release Notes. |
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Sep 18-20, 2023.
OpenRules presented “Declarative
Decision Modeling with Rule Solver" (Slides Recording) at DecisionCAMP-2023. |
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July 20, 2023. Release 10.0 essentially changes the internal structure of the generated Java code to support newly introduced OpenRules features such as dynamically defined decision variables with the qualifier “Of”, advanced “for-each” loops, SpringBoot 3, JDKs versions 1.8, 11, and 17+ with Jakarta, better control over case sensitivity, and more. | ||
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Apr 23, 2023.
Release 9.1.1
upgrades 3rd party software packages to prevent
potential vulnerabilities, adds nested loops, and a
few more helpful features. |
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Jan 23, 2023. Release 9.1.0 essentially simplifies iterations over collection of business objects. | ||
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Nov 23, 2022.
Release 9.0.0 is a major release that comes with an
advanced
Graphical Explorer and Debugger as a foundation of OpenRules Interactive Decision Modeling Environment. New
Intro Video. Try it for
free |
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July 1, 2022. Release 8.5.3 adds several advanced features such as simplified iterations over collections of objects, new operators, multiple rules in CSV-based decision tables, dependency upgrades, and more. | ||
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June 30, 2022. OpenRules presented “How Business Analysts Represent and Debug Complex Decisioning Logic” at BBC-2022 | ||
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Apr 25, 2022. Release 8.5.2: advanced handling of CSV files with Big Tables, controlling memory size for large Decision Projects, using quotes for text values, and fixing a few bugs. | ||
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Mar 28, 2022.
Release 8.5.1 provides new reports to show the structure of complex
Decision Projects, upgrades of 3rd party packages. “Handling
Large Payloads with OpenRules-based AWS Lambda
video |
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Mar 1, 2022.
Release 8.5.0 comes with many new features which make OpenRules Decision Manager even friendlier to subject matter experts and even faster to execute large input data sets.
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Dec 21, 2021 -
Jan 2, 2022.
Release
8.4.3.17
of OpenRules Decision Manager fixes the latest Apache Log4J
vulneraibilities using
Log4J 2.17.1.
We recommend our customers to modify their pom.xml
files using log4j 2.17.1 and OpenRules Decision
Manager 8.4.3.17. ClassicOpenRules Classic is not impacted as it uses the old Log4j 1.2.15. The latest Release 8.4.3 of Classic OpenRules upgrades its Apache POI dependency to 5.0.0. |
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November 11, 2021. Release 8.4.2 essentially improves the validation and error reporting for OpenRules repositories | ||
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August 23, 2021. Release 8.4.1 is about “Securing OpenRules Decision Services” using JWT Authentication and SSL communication | ||
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June 25, 2021.
New
Release 8.4.0 essentially enhances deployment
capabilities including: deploying decision models as MS Azure Functions; building RESTful web services with OpenRules REST, building custom AWS Lambda functions to support CI/CD Pipelines, automatic generation of JSON test cases,
and
more. |
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April 12, 2021. New Release 8.3.2 includes a performance benchmark that demonstrates how OpenRules can execute 1,000,000 requests within 12 seconds! Read more | ||
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March 3, 2021.
New
Release 8.3.1 includes a powerful while easy-to-use graphical
Rule Debugger oriented to business users. Watch the
video and read
more. |
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January
24, 2021.
New
Release 8.3.0
of OpenRules Decision Manager comes with a Graphical Integrated Decision Modeling Environment called "Decision Model Explorer". It automatically builds decision model diagrams, opens Excel files associated with different nodes, and allows business people to modify, test, and deploy their decision models from one place. Watch the video and read
more. |
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November
24, 2020.
ProcessMaker and OpenRules announced a new
partnership. “OpenRules is recognized as the clear leader in decision systems in the world today,” said Brian Reale, Founder and CEO of ProcessMaker. “But besides its sheer power, we loved the fact that OpenRules decision tables can be built in Excel and then uploaded to AWS with the click of a button. There is no software to install or manage, and it works natively in ProcessMaker. You just can’t beat that.”
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 November
19, 2020. OpenRules announced
a new product "Rule
DB" that allows business decision models to directly access relational databases with the power of SQL preserved in new Excel-based tables "DataSQL". You may
freely download it and try many examples from
http://RuleDB.com.
Read about more advances at
Release 8.2.1 Notes. |
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 October
1, 2020. OpenRules announced "SaaS Rule Learner",
a cloud-based tool for subject matter experts who
want to apply Machine Learning to generate business
rules from their historical data. No installation or
preliminary ML knowledge is required. Watch
video Try it from http://SaaS.RuleLearner.com |
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 August
25, 2020. OpenRules announced the
new open-sourced product "Rule Learner" available
for free from
RuleLearner.com. It adds
Machine Learning capabilities to OpenRules Decision
Manager allowing business analysts to describe their
historical records in simple Excel tables and Rule
Learner will automatically discover business rules
capable to classify similar new records. See an
introductiry example. Rule Learner naturally
supports
ever-learning decisioning processes. |
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June 15, 2020. New
OpenRules Decision Manager
Release
8.2.0 simplifies the installation
process for Windows, Mac and Linux, allows free
downloads of various sample projects, improves
decision explanations by beatifying the execution
protocol, and adds several more features requested
by our customers. Read
Release
Notes and an updated
User Manual |
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 May 11, 2020. New Release 8.1.2 of
OpenRules Decision Manager provides a brand new execution mechanism that improves performance of very big decision tables 10-100 times! At the same time OpenRules, Inc. cuts the run-time license fee 10 times!
Read
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Apr 24, 2020. Learn how to
build an complete
Decision Optimization Service
available as AWS Lambda:
- Scheduling GUI developed mainly in Excel with OpenRules Dialog templates and deployed at AWS EC2 instance - Scheduling Decision Service developed using JavaSolver and deployed as AWS Lambda function by applying OpenRules Decision Manager's one-click deployment mechanism. Try the online "Worker Scheduler". Read more |
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Apr 2, 2020. In these uncertain times, to do our part we want to help US businesses of all types and sizes, especially health organizations to quickly make important decisions. OpenRules offers immediate assistance in creation and deployment of your decisions services. If you need a quick implementation of optimization decision services, we will help you to define and resolve your problem with the freely available Java Solver. If you want to quickly create a rules-based decision service and deploy it to AWS cloud, we will give you a 3 months free access to our SaaS Rule Engine. Contact us at support@openrules.com and we will setup a call to discuss how we can help. |
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Mar 3, 2020. OpenRules Decision
Manager became the first
SaaS Rule Engine available in
AWS Marketplace - see
Press Release. |
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Feb 1, 2020. OpenRules Release 8.1.0
essentially enhances both
OpenRules Decision Manager and classic
OpenRules BRDMS making them faster
and easier to deploy as AWS Lambda, RESTful Web
Services or Docker containers.
See the newly supported
architecture. See
Release Notes |
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Oct 1, 2019. OpenRules Decision Manager 8.0.2 supports ONE-CLICK AWS LAMBDA DEPLOYMENT! Business analysts (!) now can deploy their business decision models created in Excel as AWS Lambda decision services with a simple click on “deployAWS.bat“! No coding or knowledge of AWS environment is required.
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 Aug 29, 2019. OpenRules
Decision Manager Release 8.0.1 can automatically deploys classical business decision models on-cloud as
AWS Lambda functions without coding. It also includes a user-friendly
Rules Debugger.
Tutorial Read more |
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Aug
1, 2019.
OpenRules announced an availability of the new
product "Decision Manager" that has been
developed specifically for modern enterprises
allowing their business analysts to create, deploy, and manage Business
Decision Services on cloud, on premise, or even
on smartphones. It comes with a completely
new execution
 mechanism that is extremely
fast, takes almost no time to start, and essentially reduces
the memory footprint. It perfectly fits the requirements of
modern containerized decision microservices. OpenRules also announced the availability of the new release 8.0.0 of its Classic OpenRules BRDMS that includes many new features requested by customers - Release Notes 8.0.0. It is important that both products can efficiently execute the same Business Decision Models created using MS Excel or Google Sheets in accordance with OpenRules Goal-Oriented Decision Modeling approach described in this book |
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July 8, 2019.
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May 7, 2019. OpenRules
Release 7.0.1
provides support for Decision Microservices
incorporated into the popular
Spring
framework.
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Feb 21, 2019.
A new OpenRules guide "Goal-Oriented
Decision Modeling with OpenRules" has
been published at
Amazon.
It is oriented to business people who want to build
their own operational decision models. As the
another guide "DMN
in Action", it is accompanied by free evaluation software
available from here. Read
more about OpenRules Books. |
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Dec 31, 2018.
OpenRules, Inc. announced new
Migration Services
specifically designed to help customers who want
migrate their existing (or new) rules-based systems
to OpenRules. Starting January-2019 OpenRules is essentially expanding
its technical support and consulting services to help customers
migrating to OpenRules. |
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Nov 6-9, 2018.
OpenRules was a sponsor and exhibitor at the major
annual conference
BBC-2018 in San Antonio.
Together with our customer, a major California bank, we presented the results of
successful development "Replacing
Legacy Bank Account Management System Using Business
Rules" that won the
first Business
Rules Excellence Awards (BREA). |
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Oct 16, 2018.
A major California bank, facing looming regulatory
deadlines, needed to develop a highly dynamic web
application to support the bank’s complex customer
account management processes. The integrated use of
OpenRules’ s rule and rendering engines became the
foundation for the successful and quick
implementation. OpenRules nominated this real-world
application to the
first Business
Rules Excellence Award. This
success story was selected as a
winner of the 2018 Awards.
This is a significant achievement for the Bank and
OpenRules. |
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Sep 17-19, 2018. OpenRules was
successfully presented at the
DecisionCAMP-2018 and
LuxLogAI in Luxembourg. See the related
presentations. |
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Aug 8, 2018. OpenRules
Release 7.0.0 is a major release
that essentially simplifies and at the same time enhances OpenRules decision
modeling capabilities. Now OpenRules-based decision models
are capable of recognizing their own internal structure,
discovering and publishing all supporting business goals, and
they can automatically
calculate their execution paths. Watch these videos: - Building and Executing Decision Models with OpenRules 7.0.0 - Goal-Oriented Business Decision Modeling with OpenRules |
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June 2, 2018. Preview capabilities of the upcoming release OpenRules-7 described in the implementation of the decision model "Credit Card Application" | ||
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Feb 18, 2018.
A new design of our website
www.OpenRules.com
provides a better support for mobile and tablets.
It's loaded with cool features which hopefully will
be appreciated by our customers and visitors. If you
notice any issues, please report them to
support@openrules.com. |
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October 25, 2017. OpenRules
Release 6.4.3 generates new, more compact
execution reports with explanations, adds decision
importing to integrate loosely coupled decision
models, allows using lists along with arrays and
extends various operators on them, enhances
date/time manipulations and adds more features
requested by customers. |
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May 20, 2017. OpenRules
Release 6.4.2 adds new decision modeling
capabilities including: "DecisionTableAssign" to
simplify multiple assignments;
"DecisionTableIterate" to simplify iteration over
arrays of business objects; "DecisionTableSort" to
support array sorting. |
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Dec 20, 2016. OpenRules Release 6.4.1 introduces "Why-Analyzer", a new graphical interface that allows business analysts to analyze the results produced by their DMN-based decision models.The workspace "openrules.dmn" includes many examples completely oriented to business users without a need for any additional tool but Excel. Release 6.4.1 comes with enhanced Eclipse Plugin that supports latest Eclipse releases. It also adds support for Long variables for very large integers. See a brief video |
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Nov 1-4, 2016. OpenRules
successfully exhibited and presented at
BBC-2016 in Las Vegas. See OpenRules®
presentation
"WHY" and "WHAT-IF" Buttons for Business Decision
Management |
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July 8, 2016.
OpenRules "What-If
Analyzer" wins
10th International Rule Challenge Award
at
RuleML-2016. |
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Dec 20, 2015. OpenRules Release 6.3.4 introduces a new add-on called "What-If Analyzer" that supports real-time what-if analysis of decision models by activating/deactivating business rules. A user may immediately see the changes in the affected decision variables and decision outcomes. It allows a user to find multiple and optimal solutions. It also adds support for BigDecimals. |
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Nov 2-6, 2015.
OpenRules was an exhibitor and a presenter at
BBC-2015. You may see our
presentation "Good Old UServ Product Derby in
the Brave New World of Decision Management" and the
proper
demonstration. See a
photo from the "DMN
at BBC" meeting |
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May 15, 2015.
A new
Release 6.3.3 allows a user to generate
Java interfaces for decision models that already
were created and tested using only Excel files. It
also adds new features to OpenRules
Dialog and deprecates the global method
dialog().
We also added new standard operators and fixed
several bugs. |
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December 5, 2014. OpenRules
Release 6.3.2 adds enhanced features to
OpenRules Dialog for generation of highly
dynamic questionnaires and new decisioning and
problem solving capabilities requested by customers.
The Release 6.3.2 comes with many new sample
projects that demonstrate the practical use of
OpenRules
BRDMS. |
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Oct-Nov, 2014. OpenRules will be a sponsor
and a presenter at the major international Decision
Management events
DecisionCAMP-2014 and
BBC-2014. Read
more |
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May 18, 2014.
Release 6.3.1 enhances OpenRules
testing facilities with automatic comparison of
expected and actual decision execution results,
handling Excel files in the XLSX format wit the
latest Apache POI, additional macros and other
features requested by customers. |
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April 25, 2014. OpenRules
Sandbox
has been enhanced and made more user-friendly. You
may select and execute standard decision models or
upload and execute your own models defined
completely in Excel. Try it from this
URL. |
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March 27,
2014.James Taylor, CEO at
DecisionMgtSolutions, presented a bureau
strategy decision model from the
DMN Primer at "bpmNext"
using |
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December 10, 2013. OpenRules Release 6.2.6 advances OpenRules BDMS with the following features: * Invocation of Sub-Decisions and Decision Tables by Name * Generating Excel Workbooks with OpenRules Decision Tables. |
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October 13, 2013. OMG made
the
Decision Model and Notation (DMN) Specification
1.0 publicly available on Sep 26, 2013. Today
OpenRules
published the first implementation of the
DMN 1.0 Primer based on the Loan Origination
example described in the Section 10 of the
Specification. You may read its description
here, analyze it for free and without any
downloads from
here, or download the DMN 1.0 Primer project
from
here and do your own experiments by changing
Excel-based decisions, executing the decision model,
and analyzing the results. |
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August 26, 2013.
Release 6.2.5 enhances OpenRules
BDMS with the following functionality: business
rules defined on collections of objects; decision
tables for comparing ranking lists; new features in
OpenRules-based web applications; advanced logging
API; fixed bugs, and more - see
Release Notes |
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May 9, 2013.
OpenRules
Release 6.2.4 advances
OpenRules BDMS with additional features initiated by
the real-world use of previous releases: http
authentication, extended date formats, use of
decision variables with "not applicable" values,
enhanced access to XML data, and more sophisticated
execution reports. Read
Release Notes |
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May 7, 2013.
Webinar with James Taylor:
Creating and Managing Executable Decision Models
with DecisionFirst Modeler and OpenRules |
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January 9, 2013. OpenRules
Release 6.2.3
adds new features such as generation of decision
execution reports in the HTML format, an ability to
create more compact decision tables with new
templates, advanced interfaces for external rules,
and more. Read
Release Notes |
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October 15, 2012.
We added a
tutorial "Cloud
Application Development" and a new project
workspace "openrules.cloud" with examples of
OpenRules
web applications deployed on the cloud. It is
available as a part of the complete OpenRules
installation.
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September 24, 2012.
OpenRules
Release 6.2.2
adds new features that allow a user to customize
decisions and decision runs, to create custom
decision tables, and to incorporate decisions in web
dialogs. Read
Release Notes |
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September 12, 2012. OpenRules, Inc. successfully
completed two contracts with
IRS related to the integrated use of machine
learning and business rules technologies. See what
IRS management says in the final
report.
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August 1, 2012. Over the
course of the last few years, OpenRules is
constantly gaining in popularity adding
more and more
customers including large international
corporations and government agencies, new partners
and resellers worldwide. See the actual statistics
from 2004 to 2012 in our
blog. |
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June 3, 2012. OpenRules Release 6.2.1 adds new functionality for Database Integration, Web Services, more decision tables operators, an optimization mode for Rule Solver ™, enhanced documentation. Release Notes. | ||
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OpenRules, Inc. is selected to present at the World Congress on Decision Tables that is a part of the BBC 2012. As usual, OpenRules, Inc. will be a sponsor of this largest BR event. | ||
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March 5,
2012. OpenRules
Release
6.2.0 adds a new inferential rule
engine: an enhanced
Rule Solver
provides powerful constraint-based tools for
decision management. OpenRules
6.2.0 also advances the existing decision models and
web dialogs.
Release Notes |
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February 28, 2012.
JCP Executive Committee approved the final
release of the standard
JSR-331 "Constraint Programming API". OpenRules
CTO Dr. Feldman is the Specification Lead for this
standard. Read
more. |
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December
20, 2011. OpenRules
Release 6.1.3 enhances OpenRules
Executable Decisions with new functionality required
by real-world applications. Read
more |
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September 11, 2011. OpenRules
Release 6.1.2 is a minor release that extends the
Decisioning functionality and fixes several bugs
found in the latest releases. Read
more |
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August 8, 2011. OpenRules Release 6.1.1 advances the Executable Decisions by providing new features, the detailed user manual and new tutorials, and fixing some bugs. Read more | ||
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July 5, 2011. Forrester Research: "OpenRules have the most-aggressive approaches to business-expert authoring and typically requires less developer support than IBM ILOG, FICO Blaze Advisor, and JBoss BRMS." Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms 2011 | ||
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May 12,
2011. James
Taylor published articles devoted to OpenRules®
BRMS: - General Overview - Rule Solver - Rule Learner. |
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March 4, 2011.
OpenRules
Release
6.0.1
is a major
milestone that supports
Executable Decisions created and tested
by business analysts without coding and IT
involvement. Read
more |
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October 26, 2010. OpenRules Release 5.4.1 introduces a new version of Rule Solver that allows a user to define and solve constraint satisfaction and optimization problems. | ||
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October 17-21, 2010. OpenRules and General Intelletics presented "Large Scale Intelligent Checklists with OpenRules BRMS" at The Business Rules Forum, Washington DC. | ||
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October 14, 2010. KPI
and OpenRules
ran a successful
boot
camp at the
RulesFest in San
Jose.
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October 13, 2010. OpenRules presented a new experimental framework "Connecting the Dots" at the RulesFest-2010 | ||
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September 22, 2010.
Java Community Process
(JCP) announced today at JavaOne Conference in San
Francisco that JSR-331 "Constraint Programming API"
won JCP Award "The
Most Innovative JSR of 2010".
OpenRules CTO Jacob Feldman is the Specification
Lead of this JSR. A newly redesigned
Rule Solver will be based on the JSR-331. |
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July 29, 2010.
Knowledge Partners
International, LLC and OpenRules, Inc.
announced that they will jointly present a
live primer of The Decision Model at the
RulesFest in October
2010. See
press release.
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July 10, 2010. OpenRules, Inc. successfully completed the IRS contract "Machine Learning Models Research and Development with NRP and LMSB Data" | ||
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June 29, 2010. OpenRules Release 5.4.0 provides a live primer for the Decision Model, support for password-protected Excel files, and a few enhancements and bug fixes. | ||
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May 20, 2010. OpenRules and Knowledge Partners International will host an Executable Decision Model bootcamp at the RulesFest in October 2010. | ||
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May 11-13, 2010. OpenRules successfully conducted hands-on training at The Wyndham Garden Hotel, Newark Airport, NJ. OpenRules expresses its appreciation to a new customer Nishikawa Corporation for supporting this event. | ||
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December-2009. OpenRules
BRMS has been selected by
Arc Worldwide, which
provides marketing services to such clients as Procter
& Gamble,
United
Airlines, and
McDonald's.
Arc Worldwide develops and
manages direct marketing and promotional campaigns
and point-of-sale marketing efforts. Arc operates
through more than 40 offices located around the
world. It is a unit of
Leo
Burnett, a global ad agency of
French conglomerate. |
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October 15, 2009. OpenRules
Release 5.3.2
has been introduced together with a new OpenRules
product "ORD"
that is a special add-on for building complex,
rules-based questionnaires.
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September 20, 2009. OpenRules
is proud to announce that
the United States Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) awarded OpenRules, Inc. with a new government
contract "Machine
Learning Models Research and Development with NRP
and LMSB Data.
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September 4, 2009. OpenRules,
Inc. became an official supplier of BRMS software
and services for
Fiserv, Inc.,
the world’s largest service provider to banks,
credit unions, and lending institutions.
OpenRules
effectively supports Fiserv's
financial electronic commerce services including
receiving and paying bills online through 15,000
retail outlets. |
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July 1, 2009. OpenRules
Rel
ease
5.3.1
improves OpenRules effectiveness in multi-threaded
environments by supporting real parallelism.
Read
more.
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June 24, 2009.
OpenRules announced a fast-support online service
Live Assist. Upon your request an
OpenRules expert conducts a remote session
addressing your particular problem by studying it
with you on your own computer. |
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May 2, 2009. OpenRules, Inc.
successfully completed
Phase 2 of the government contract “Integrating
Machine Learning Models With Business Rules
Environment” issued by the National
Headquarters Office of Research,
Internal Revenue Service (IRS). |
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March 16, 2009. The new
Release 5.3.0
introduces
External Rules, allowing a user to
create and maintain business rules outside Excel
files: in DB, XML, GUI, Java, and custom sources.
Read
more. |
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March
4, 2009. OpenRules has
been nominated as a finalist for the Best Developer
Tool category of the
Eclipse Community Awards.
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January 20, 2009.
OpenRules
5.2
provides
an important update for the underlying Apache POI
API that is used to access Microsoft format files.
The new release
switches
to the latest
POI 3.2 FINAL. Read more
here.
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December 8, 2008. OpenRules CTO
presented "A
Unified Business Interface for Modeling and Solving
Constraint Satisfaction Problems"
at the
OMG Technical Meeting
in Santa Clara, CA |
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October 26-30, 2008.
OpenRules was a sponsor at the
11th Business Rules Forum
in Orlando
with two successful
presentations: 1)
Integrated Business Rules and Constraint Programming
Technologies for EDM; 2)
Applying Business Rules to Complex Patent Data
Processing - EPO Experience |
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October 22-25, 2008.
OpenRules participated in
October Rules Fest
in Dallas presenting "Using
Constraint Programming in Business Rules
Environments" |
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September 12, 2008.
The US Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) awarded OpenRules, Inc. with a new contract.
The new contract is the second phase of the
successfully completed project Integrating
Machine Learning Models With Business Rules
Environment”
issued by the National Headquarters Office of
Research, Washington DC |
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August 25, 2018.
OpenRules 5.1.0
simplifies the creation and maintenance of
enterprise-class business rules repositories. Using
advanced rule templates, OpenRules customers may
specify rules implementation logic in a few
templates and reuse it in multiple business rules
categories. With 5.1 you may define default
rules directly in templates, support partial
rules implementations and optional rule
conditions and actions making rules repository more
stable and flexible. |
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June 1, 2008.
OpenRules has published
Step-By-Step Tutorials for different
development frameworks including
Google GWT, Spring, Apache Tomcat, BEA
WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and RAD. |
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April 20, 2008.
OpenRules
5.0.2
is a minor release that adds more functionality to
the JSR-94 reference implementation, restores JDK
1.4 backward compatibility, and fixes some bugs |
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March 29, 2008.
OpenRules-5,a new major release that
introduces
Rule Templates has been announced.
OpenRules
Release 5.0 essentially simplifies rules
repository construction and management and expedites
initialization and execution of the OpenRules
Engine. See
Release Notes 5.0 |
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European Patent Office
and OpenRules will do the presentation "Applying
Business Rules to Complex Patent Data Processing -
EPO Experience"
at
The 11th International Business
Rules Forum |
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January 14, 2008.
Release
4.1.2 provides
important bug fixes for handling Excel dates and
merged cells - read
release notes |
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has
successfully completed
November 13, 2007. OpenRules, Inc.
has
successfully completed
successfully completed
the US IRS contract “Automating
Business Rules Creation Using Machine Learning
Models” issued by the National
Headquarters Office of Research,
Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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October
29, 2007. Dennis Byron,
Analyst,
ebizQ, published a
review "Open Source Business Intelligence
Megatrends", in which he describes
OpenRules Rules-based BI:
"OpenRules is an example of a rules-based OSS BI
application. It offers a methodology, along with OSS
tools and professional services for business
analysts rather than or in concert with developers.
This is an interesting approach and an approach that
will be important in the long run to grow all
categories of OSS applications." Read the entire
review |
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October 21-24,
2007. OpenRules, Inc.'s booth was among the most popular
places at the
10th Business Rules Forum in Orlando, FL.
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more |
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October 10, 2007.
OpenRules announced
Rule Compressor,
a new add-on that employs integrated machine
learning and business rules
techniques to automatically compress
complex classification rules. Rule Compressor
may effectively minimize the number of rules and/or
simplify their structure by automatically
discovering new thresholds and eliminating
non-essential attributes. OpenRules offers
rules compression and optimization services
regardless of the rule engine being used by the
customer. |
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September 28,
2007.
Vero Insurance New Zealand
selected OpenRules for its enterprise-class business
rules management system. Vero subscribed to
OpenRules technical support and acquired a package
of OpenRules commercial licenses |
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September
20, 2007. OpenRules
Release 4.1.1
is a minor release that adds new features mainly to
OpenRules Forms and tunes OpenRules to work with the
latest versions of 3rd party products |
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July 20, 2007.
OpenRules
Release 4.0 is a major
release that adds advanced features such as
single-hit decision tables, direct access to rules
saved in databases with built-in version control,
use of natural language expressions, and
more
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May 18, 2007.
OpenRules signed a licensing and support agreement
with
Thomson Global Resources,
a leading global
provider of integrated solutions in the
fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services,
scientific research and healthcare. The agreement
allows
Thomson Medstat to use and distribute OpenRules®
as a business rules repository for
Advantage Suite®, a
powerful, decision support tool linked to a
comprehensive, integrated warehouse of medical
claims and encounter data, pharmaceutical drug
utilization, eligibility information, and
performance measures. |
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March 2, 2007.
Software House International
(SHI)
became an official OpenRules reseller with the sale
of OpenRules
commercial licenses and support packages to
Blue Shield of California.
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February
7, 2007.
Business Rules Journal published "Business
Rules Forum
2006 Vendor Panel ~ The Future is Now".
Six BR vendors including OpenRules shared their
vision of the future and the very real possibilities
of today. Read
here |
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November
15, 2006.
Dresdner Bank
acquired OpenRules
support packages and commercial licenses for its
enterprise-class financial application. |
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November 5-9, 2006.
OpenRules successfully presented Open Source Rules
at the
9th Business Rules Forum in Washington,
DC. Read
more |
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November 1, 2006.
Visitar announced
360° Care viaVisitar
Version 2.0 for innovative customer relationship
management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA)
solutions that link rich telephony capabilities with
business applications to improve efficiency and
enhance customer and employee interactions. Core
interaction capabilities of Visitar solutions are
based on OpenRules®.
See
presentation |
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October
17, 2006. OpenRules,
Inc. has been awarded a government contract “Automating
Business Rules Creation Using Machine Learning
Models” issued by the National
Headquarters Office of Research,
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) |
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September 18, 2006. OpenRules
announced the availability of a new major
OpenRules Release 3.0
that
dramatically simplifies OpenRules configuration and
integration problems |
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August 25, 2006. A major
international bank successfully completed
development of an OpenRules-based engine
that drives risk calculation and security rules for
a strategic application within the bank.
Contact us for
details and references. |
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March 27, 2006.
Raleigh, NC.
Visitar
announced general availability of its SaaS service
that uses OpenRules for interactive configuration of
its multi-tenant product that integrates CRM with
computer telephony. |
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May
20, 2006.
OpenRules, Inc. introduced a
Jump-Start service designed to make a
customer team productive and self-sufficient with
OpenRules as quickly as possible. The service
is available for US and European customers |
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February 6, 2006.
OpenRules
2.3.0
enhances web development tools and upgrades 3rd
party tools. |
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November 01, 2005.
OpenRules
2.2.1 supports JDK 5.0 and Eclipse
3.1 and includes a Java library to support dynamic
dialogs. |
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October 5, 2005.
OpenRules at the International Business Rules Forum
in Orlando
on November 6-10, 2005. |
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September 7, 2005.
OpenRules
2.2.0
essentially simplifies integration with different
web application servers |
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August 8,
2005.
OpenRules published an implementation of "LoanDynamics",
a web application that supports a dynamic loan
approval process and demonstrates the ability to
dynamically add/delete/modify different securities
related to an initial loan application. |
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May 6,
2005.
Big Faceless Organization (BFO), the
leading global provider of Java reporting solutions,
announces partnership with OpenRules, Inc. |
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May 5,2005.
OpenRules
2.1.0
improves Web Interaction and multi-platform support. |
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April 18, 2005.
GraphiteStore.com
Web services into its new online marketplace. |
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March 16, 2005.
OpenRules
Release 2
moves beyond a pure BRMS to Web Application
Development
announcing availability of a new Open Source Suite
of tools "OpenRules-2" that supports development and
deployment of dynamic Web Applications with Forms
Layouts and Interaction Rules defined in Excel. |
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November 8-11, 2004.
OpenRules
successfully exhibited at the International Business
Rules Forum in Las Vegas |
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November
5, 2004. OpenRules
Release 1.1 is available for free downloads.
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October
30, 2004. OpenRules
delivers to IRS a new phase of the Strategic
Compliance Planning Model (SCPM). |
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May 28, 2004. A new
enhanced OpenRules Release 1.0.2 has been announced.
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May 6, 2004. GraphiteStore.com selected OpenRules to enhance its
online marketplace. |
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April 19,2004. A new
OpenRules Release 1.0.1 is available for downloads. |
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December 12, 2003. The
first public release of OpenRules.
OpenRules is available for free downloads as an Open
Source BRMS product. |
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November 8, 2003. OpenRules
has been successfully used for a complex loan
approval application. See a
presentation
at the 6th Business Rules Forum
(adjusted to OpenRules). |
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November 1, 2003.
A beta release of OpenRules is available upon
requests. |
