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verification and validation

First Look – Visual Rules

March 5, 2009

I sat down with Innovations Software Technology, now part of the Bosch group, to get my first good look at Visual Rules in a while. Release 4.4 is the current version (they released 4.3 in November and 4.4 just this week).
The tool is written in Java and based on Eclipse. About half their users are [...]

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Can the business use decision management technology without IT help?

December 16, 2008

Inspired by a post of Jim Sinur’s – Can the Business Really Use BPM Technologies Without Help? – I started thinking about the decision management corollary: Can the business use decision management technology without help?
Regular readers will know that I often refer to the dirty secret of business rules:
Business users don’t want to “maintain rules” [...]

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Results of a survey on verification of business rules

November 24, 2008

Some time ago I linked to an interesting looking research project and the results are now available – Development and Verification of Rule Based Systems – a Survey of Developers. Valentin did a nice job summarizing the results, comparing them to a previous study of more academic projects and drawing some distinctions between academic and [...]

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First Look – ioSemantics

July 10, 2008

ioSemantics is a company focused on automating and improving the QA process within decision management. Focused on increasing agility, ioSemantics is developing new technology to improve the link from development to production, especially in the kind of tight operate – assess – adapt – redeploy loop you see when business rules are being used [...]

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A chance to win a camera by talking about rule base development!

April 21, 2008

Valentin Zacharias is conducting an online survey on the development of rule bases and would really appreciate your opinion! The survey is very short and should only require a few minutes to complete. Any additional feedback or comments are also very welcome. If you answer all questions and enter your email address at the end [...]

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