Business Rules Management System

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Business RulesManagement System
EWA Systems, Inc. July 12, 2005
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EWA Rules Engine Advantages

• Scalable, Efficient, Small-Footprint Runtime
  Engine
• Extreme Performance (gt20,000 Rule
  Evaluations/sec) per Engine
• 1200x Faster Than Competitors Engines
• Standard-Base Architecture 100 Java,
  JSR94-Compliant
• Scalable From Embedded to Clustered
  Architectures
• Rules Engine Enterprise Analytics Expert
  System
• MetaRules
• Define Business Goals, Leaving Maintenance of
  Underlying Operational Rules to the Expert System
• Further Reduces Business Rules Maintenance Costs
• Real World Data Uncertain and Missing Data
• Using Analytical Models Remedy This Real World
  Data
• Results in More Robust, More Capable Rules Engine
• Tight Integration with Data Mining, Optimization,
  Expert Systems

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EWA Rules Engine Advantages

• Complete Business Rules Management System
• Intuitive, Customizable Graphical User Interface
• Available as an Application or over the Web
• All Component Locations/Coloring are Customizable
• Componentized GUI Components Presents Common
  Interface
• User/Password Role and Permission-Based Security
• Rule-Wizard Pre-Validates Rules and Limits Rule
  Conflicts
• Complete Real-Time Rule Debug and Testing
  Environment
• Hot-Deployment Runtime Monitoring and Management
• Total Rule-Usage Profiling and Logging
• Application Server and Database Agnostic
• Supports Various Rule Languages including Natural
  Language
• Writing in a Comfortable Language improves
  Efficiency reduces Error
• Simplified Rule Creation, Maintenance and
  Deployment
• XML and Database Persistance

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Scalability

• Embedded Solutions
• Tiny lt 200kB Footprint, Top-Level Performance
• Distributed Architectures
• Scalability for Large Team Projects
• Client-Server or Web-Based BRMS Interfaces
• Many Simultaneous BRMS Users
• Supports Clustering to Web Farms
• Hundreds of Coordinated Run-Time Engines
• N-Tier Architectures
• Application Server and Database Agnostic

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Client/Server Distributed Architectures
Central Server Eases Deployment,
Maintenance, Collaboration and Storage
Client
Client
Client
Server
Client
Engine
Repository
App. Server Layer Full Monitoring Abilities
Multiple Use-Specific Client GUIs
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Intuitive Component-Based Interface

• Rule Library with Rule Searching and Global
  Editing
• Rule Builder with Wizards
• Rule Version Control System
• Resource Management and Permission System
• Real-Time Rule Debug/Test Environment
• Runtime Engine Monitoring
• Hot Deployment Management
• Rule and Flow Profiling and Logging

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Comprehensive Rule Features

• Rule Sets/Tables/Trees
• Full Optimization of Rule Sets
• Rule Features
• If-Then-Else Rules
• All Comparative and Set-Theory Operators
• Rule Versioning
• External, User-Definable Functions
• Alerts and Triggers
• Change and Usage Logs
• Forward, Reverse Polish, and Natural Language
  Interfaces

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BRMS Screen Shot
Customizable Colors/Format
History Log
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BRMS Screen Shot
Showing Java Interface
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Repository Options

• Persistence Options
• File System (Object or XML)
• Database
• Memory (For Embedded Deployments)
• Resource Permission Management System
• Rule/Object Searching and Global Editing

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Engine Status Management

• Manage Runtime Engines
• By Individual Runtime Engines
• By Runtime Engine Group
• Hot Deployment of Rules
• Monitor Engine/Rule Performance
• Track Rule and Flow Profiles

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Runtime Engine Options

• Scalable, Lightweight, Efficient, Multi-Threaded
• Deployment
• J2EE Service
• Independent Service
• Socket
• RMI
• Embedded Library
• Hot-Deployment Capable
• Sequential/Parallel Rule Execution
• Rule Profiling/Debugging

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Rule Debug/Test Environment
Complete Debug / Testing Capabilities
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Advanced Features

• Tight Integration with
• Comprehensive Analytics
• Data Mining
• Statistics and Math
• Decision Support and Utility Analytics
• Expert Systems
• Visualization
• Optimization
• Industry-Specific Toolkits

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Contact Info

• EWA Systems, Inc.
• www.ewasystems.com
• [phone]