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Upcoming Events

 
bullet 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.
July 29, 2010
   
bullet OpenRules successfully completed the IRS contract "Machine Learning Models Research and Development with NRP and LMSB Data"
July 10, 2010
   
bullet 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.
June 29, 2010
   
bullet OpenRules and Knowledge Partners International will host an Executable Decision Model bootcamp at the RulesFest in October 2010.
May 20, 2010
   
bullet 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.
May 11-13, 2010
   
bullet 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 Publicis.
December-2009

 
bullet 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. Read more.
October 15, 2009
 
bullet 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".
September 20, 2009
 
bullet 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.
September 4, 2009
 
bullet OpenRules® Release 5.3.1 improves OpenRules effectiveness in multi-threaded environments by supporting real parallelism.  Read more.
July 1, 2009
 
bullet 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.
June 24, 2009
 
bulletOpenRules, 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). 
May 2, 2009
 
bulletThe 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.
March 16, 2009
 
bulletOpenRules has been nominated as a finalist for the Best Developer Tool category of the Eclipse Community Awards.
March 4, 2009
 
bulletOpenRules became a sponsor at the 12th Business Rules Forum in Las Vegas
 
bulletOpenRules® 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.
January 20, 2009
 
bulletOpenRules CTO presented "A Unified Business Interface for Modeling and Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems" at the OMG Technical Meeting in Santa Clara, CA
December 8, 2008
 
bulletOpenRules 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
October 26-30, 2008

 
bulletOpenRules participated in October Rules Fest in Dallas presenting "Using Constraint Programming in Business Rules Environments
October 22-25, 2008
 
bullet 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
September 12, 2008
 
bulletOpenRules 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.
August 25, 2008
 
bulletOpenRules has published Step-By-Step Tutorials for different development frameworks including Google GWT, Spring, Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and RAD.
June 1, 2008
 
bulletOpenRules® 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
April 20, 2008
 
bulletOpenRules-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
March 29, 2008
 
bulletEuropean 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
 
bulletRelease 4.1.2 provides important bug fixes for handling Excel dates and merged cells - read release notes
January 14, 2008
 
bulletOpenRules, Inc. has 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).  Read more
November 13, 2007
 
bulletDennis 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
October 29, 2007

 
bulletOpenRules, Inc.'s booth was among the most popular places at the 10th Business Rules Forum in Orlando, FL. Read more
October 21-24, 2007
 
bulletOpenRules 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.
October 10, 2007

 
bullet 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
September 28, 2007
 
bullet 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
September 20, 2007
 
bulletOpenRules® 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
July 20, 2007
 
bulletOpenRules 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.
May 18, 2007
 
bulletSoftware House International (SHI) became an official OpenRules reseller with the sale of OpenRules® commercial licenses and support packages to Blue Shield of California.
March 2, 2007
 
bulletBusiness 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
February 7, 2007
 
bullet Dresdner Bank acquired OpenRules® support packages and commercial licenses for its enterprise-class financial application.
November 15, 2006
 
bulletOpenRules successfully presented Open Source Rules at the 9th Business Rules Forum in Washington, DC. Read more
November 5-9, 2006
 
bullet 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
November 1, 2006

 
bulletOpenRules, 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)
October 17, 2006
 
bulletOpenRules announced the availability of a new major OpenRules Release 3.0 that dramatically simplifies OpenRules configuration and integration problems
September 18, 2006
 
bulletA 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.
August 25, 2006
 
bulletVisitar announced general availability of its SaaS service that uses OpenRules for interactive configuration of its multi-tenant product that integrates CRM with computer telephony. 
March 27, 2006 Raleigh, NC
 
bulletOpenRules, 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
May 20, 2006
 
bulletOpenRules® 2.3.0 enhances web development tools and upgrades 3rd party tools.
February 6, 2006
 
bullet OpenRules® 2.2.1 supports JDK 5.0 and Eclipse 3.1 and includes a Java library to support dynamic dialogs.
November 01, 2005
 
bullet OpenRules at the International Business Rules Forum in Orlando on November 6-10, 2005.
October 5, 2005
 
bulletOpenRules® 2.2.0 essentially simplifies integration with different web application servers
September 7, 2005
 
bulletOpenRules 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.
August 8, 2005
 
bulletBig Faceless Organization (BFO), the leading global provider of Java reporting solutions, announces partnership with OpenRules, Inc.
May 6, 2005

 
bulletOpenRules® 2.1.0 improves Web Interaction and multi-platform support.
May 5,2005
 
bulletGraphiteStore.com incorporates OpenRules® Web services into its new online marketplace.
April 18, 2005
 
bulletOpenRules-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.
March 16, 2005
 
bullet OpenRules successfully exhibited at the International Business Rules Forum in Las Vegas
November 8-11, 2004
 
bulletOpenRules Release 1.1 is available for free downloads.
November 5, 2004
 
bulletOpenRules delivers to IRS a new phase of the Strategic Compliance Planning Model (SCPM). 
October 30, 2004
 
bulletA new enhanced OpenRules release 1.0.2 has been announced.
May 28, 2004
 
bulletGraphiteStore.com selected OpenRules to enhance its online marketplace.
May 6, 2004
 
bulletA new OpenRules release 1.0.1 is available for downloads.
April 19, 2004
 
bulletThe first public release of OpenRules.  OpenRules is available for free downloads as an Open Source BRMS product.  
December 12, 2003

 
bulletOpenRules has been successfully used for a complex loan approval application. See a presentation at the 6th Business Rules Forum on November 8, 2003 (adjusted to OpenRules).
 
bulletA beta release of OpenRules is available upon requests.
November 1, 2003

 

 


Release History

Release 5.4.0:  Jun-2010

Release 5.3.2Oct-2009

Release 5.3.1July-2009

Release 5.3.0March-2009

Release 5.2.0Jan-2009

Release 5.1.0Aug-2008

Release 5.0.2:  Apr-2008

Release 5.0.1:  Mar-2008

Release 4.1.0:  Sep-2007

Release 4.0.0:  Jul-2007 

Release 3.0.0:  Sep-2006

Release 2.3.0:  Feb-2006

Release 2.2.1:  Nov-2005

Release 2.2.0:  Sep-2005

Release 2.1.0:  May-2005

Release 2.0.0:  Mar-2005

Release 1.1.0:  Nov-2004

Release 1.0.2:  May-2004

Release 1.0.1:  Apr-2004

Release 1.0.0:  Dec-2003

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