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OpenRules provides a suite of
powerful software solutions for
developing Rules-based Web applications. The suite is oriented to granting
business people an active role in
creation and maintenance of sophisticated Web applications with complex business logic. Together with
MS Excel™ and
Eclipse™,
the suite comprises a powerful development and management framework that
supports the following functionality:
 | Web Form Management
A non-technical user can implement dynamic web-based
interaction processes by defining complex form layouts and
interaction logic through simple Excel tables.
Excel is used as a web form editor allowing
users to define complex web page layouts in a WYSIWYG manner without
possessing knowledge of HTML, JScript, etc. Nevertheless, experts can always add more
programming details directly into Excel-based forms and decision tables.
The suite supports Rules-based process modeling
with a quick and intuitive GUI generation.
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| Decision Support Rules
Both business and technical
users can employ Excel to specify business rules and their implementation
details inside decision tables. Decision table is a tabular representation of
business rules used to describe and analyze decision situations,
where the outcome of a number of conditions determines the execution
of a set of actions.
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| Data Modeling
Support for
Intelligent Business Glossaries which define problem specific business terms
and facts enabling non-technical users to represent various data types
right in Excel and declare objects of these types to be used as
test data. Furthermore, a business glossary can include data
types specified outside Excel, for example in Java classes, XML
files, or database tables.
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Spreadsheet Management
A software
developer can specify different types of executable tables that can be
defined directly in Excel spreadsheets.
Provided table types include rule tables, datatype and data
tables, form layout tables, tables that describe programming methods with
snippets of Java code, and tables that configure an application specific
development environment. While new table types can be added
by professional software developers, non-technical people can create and
maintain tables of existing types using Excel
only. The Suite provides an interface
with Eclipse IDE that converts Excel spreadsheets into
legitimate citizens of complex Java-based software development
environments.
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| Machine Learning Tools
OpenRules includes a special
component entitled "Rule Learner" that
integrates a machine learning approach with business rules. OpenRules
Rule Learner can apply different ML methods to a large volume of
historical data and present the learned rules in a form automatically
executable by the OpenRules engine.
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| Optimization Tools
OpenRules includes
a special component
called a
Rule
Solver
that applies
different optimization techniques
to solve optimization problems defined in the rules-based environment.
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OpenRules relies only on Free Open
Source tools/libraries created and maintained by different Open Source
contributors. The downloadable Open Source software includes
copies of related freely distributed 3rd party products in accordance
with their Open Source licenses. The source code is available upon requests.
OpenRules, Inc. backs all
tools included in the Suite with the best in
Technical
Support and
related
Consulting Services.
OpenRules is a
registered trademark of OpenRules, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their
respective owners.
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