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February 26, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Corticon links business rules, apps

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Corticon on Monday plans to announce Corticon Business Rules Foundation, which enables embedding of business rules management capabilities within enterprise applications.

Business Rules Foundation features a library of model-driven business rules management system functions delivered as "headless" services that can be exposed in any form within any application, Corticon said. Through an SDK being released on Monday, developers can build decision automation capabilities into software. The SDK features APIs, Java materials, design documents, JUnit tests and prototype client code.

Business rules describe the logic of how decisions are made, such as approval of a claim or what price or product to offer a customer, said David Straus, senior vice president of marketing at Corticon. But development of business rules has not been synchronized with development of the application itself.

"Business rules management systems today typically provide a mechanism to describe logic associated with business decisions, but typically they do that all externally from the application," said Straus.

"More and more what we've heard is [Corticon business partners] really want to make business rules a very native part of what they do for a living," Straus said.

Corticon's product embeds its business rules software into other applications and can be used by corporate developers, ISVs or value-added resellers.

The Foundation product is the first release in the Corticon 5 business rules management system. Future Corticon products will be built around Foundation, the company said.

Posted by Paul Krill on February 26, 2007 06:28 AM

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