Odd quotes: “rules are impossible to maintain”
Posted by Paul Vincent
… was one made at the recent webinar promoting an OASIS standard for system event processing. Odd though, as of the 3 (non-TIBCO) vendors involved, one has acquired a Business Rule Management System provider, and one used to be a big provider of Business Rule Engines…
Now “rule maintenance” (/management) is a specialized type of content management, and related to other types of business model management (including business process management). Typically it’s just decision rules that are managed formally by business users (as opposed to, say, data relationship rules which are usually “baked in” to IT databases too much to be easily modified) [*1].
So, being generous, perhaps the OASIS speaker was referring to the lack of capability to easily manage and maintain all possible types of business rules in an application… although cynics might argue it was just a comment to justify not tieing SAF too closely to rules execution and rules engines…
Notes:
[1] TIBCO’s offering in rule management - TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager - covers decision services and agents for use within BusinessEvents applications to be applied to business events as they are detected.
Tags: BRMS, decision management, OASIS SAF
Complex Event Processing (CEP), Rules, Standards | 21 October 2009 |
