1	ODTUG Business Rules Symposium June 23, 2001 San Diego, CA
2	Business Rules Rule! ODTUG 2001 – Business Rules Symposium Dr. Paul Dorsey – Moderator paul_dorsey@dulcian.com
3	Business Rules New, cool buzzword? Same old stuff in a new package? Hype? Remember CASE, artificial intelligence…etc. Real paradigm shift? Completely revolutionize database industry Answer: Maybe all three
4	Same old stuff? What are business rules? System (user) requirements Great! – a new word for requirements Do we really need another buzzword? A business rule = a precisely articulated system requirement
5	Hype? Grand vision of how to do analysis better Business rule grammars Too hard to understand or use BR Tools Products that support 20% of the business rules of the organization (Oracle Workflow)
6	Paradigm Shift? Imagine … Planet Business Rule where Users are enabled to articulate their requirements (aka business rules). We can easily gather and place requirements into a business rules repository. The whole system is generated from the business rule repository
7	Fact or Fiction? If we can gather and place all of the business rules into a repository, isn’t that the whole system? Shouldn’t we be able to declare that the system is complete?
8	Fantasy? Users enter their requirements Push a big purple button Out pops a system Have we heard this story before? 100% generation tale
9	New SDLC
10	1000 Table ERP
11	Traditional Development
12	Traditional Development Problems Users can’t participate in the design process Users are separated from the system Users can’t understand design documents Feedback occurs when system is delivered Exceptions ERDs (20% of structural rules) Function Hierarchy (10% of process rules)
13	Integrated Business Rule Approach
14	Business Rules Environment
15	Advantages of Business Rule Environment Users participate in Design UML model (80% of structural rules) Still hard to read (20% participation) Users can’t build them (except to add, modify attributes) Process Flows (95% of process rules) 95% participation Users can build them!!!
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17	We’ve already done it Many have already accomplished this magic We have approached it in different ways Same philosophical base Dulcian has achieved this with the Business Rules Information Manager (BRIM^™)
18	Real Results County Tax collector 1 Custom Application Large ($500M) retailer GL - 2 Custom Applications, 1 Report HR – 0 Custom Applications (projected)
19	BRIM^™ How does it work?
20	BRIM^™ Architecture
21	Structural Rules Architecture
22	Process Rules Architecture
23	The REAL Advantage!!!! “The only reason you are able to build so cheaply is that you foist the programming off onto your users.” Ulka Rodgers
24	Symposium Agenda (1) Morning – In-depth Presentations 9:00 -10:30 Implementing Business Rules as Data Roland Berg, ThinkSpark 10:30-10:45 – Break 10:45-12:15 A Business-Rules Based Methodology: Techniques for the Gathering and Coding of User Requirements David Wendelken, I. Michael Snyder, CASEtech, Inc.
25	Symposium Agenda (2) Lunch – Vendor Presentations 12:15 – 1:45 Brokat Technologies EFuturia, Inc. Savvion, Inc. Seeristic
26	Symposium Agenda (3) Afternoon – 20 minute presentations 1:50-2:10 Alain Gougeon, Project ILACO II Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Business Rules 2:10-2:30 David C. Hay, Essential Strategies, Inc. The Business Rule Motivation Model 2:30-2:50 Art Moore, Knowledge Partners From Theory to Practice: A Rules-Driven Approach to Systems Development 2:50-3:10 David Johnson, United Illuminating Co. Generating Triggers That Enforce Your Business Rules 3:10-3:20 BREAK
27	Symposium Agenda (4) 3:20-3:40 Lauri Boyd, Oracle Corp. CDM RuleFrame – The Business Rule Implementation Framework that Saves you Work 3:40-4:00 Bonnie O’Neil, Westridge Consulting Business Rules to the Rescue! In the 21^st Century 4:00-4:20 Alfredo Torrez, Project ILACO II Literate Specification: A Framework for Documenting and Implementing Business Rules in the Database 4:20-4:30 BREAK 4:30-5:30 General Discussion – Ask the Experts Panel 5:30-6:30 RECEPTION WE MUST STAY ON SCHEDULE!!!
28	Business Rules Rule!