Business Rule Manager™
Business Benefits
Business Rule Manager enables organizations to discover, govern, and extend the value of existing business logic.
Business Rule Manager provides patented technology that accelerates the discovery of business rules embedded within enterprise applications. Unlike low-value scanners, Business Rule Manager offers patented automatic and analyst-led approaches to efficiently harvest and organize key logic. In fact, ROI studies have revealed that business rule management initiatives are completed 74% more efficiently with Business Rule Manager. This yields insights into organizations' operations that are essential for application modernization and application maintenance activities.
In fact, according to a leading analyst report, 61% of best in class organizations use automation to extract business logic from legacy applications.
Automated Rule Discovery that Speeds Collection of Business Logic
Business Rule Manager includes sophisticated algorithms that uncover logic from within an application. Through the technology, analysts can rapidly uncover screen, data-access, and other rule types across an application. The module generates a detailed report that lists the discovered rules and allows analysts to either accept or reject the rules for inclusion in the repository.
Analyst-Centric Discovery of Business Rules
Business Rule Manager offers numerous paths to navigate complex code to identify business rules. First, through the platform's powerful querying engine users can build, share, and reuse searches that locate specific code constructs of interest that are rule candidates. Second, it provides an interactive environment that dramatically reduces the amount of time developers spend searching through source code to find and identify business rules.
Integration Eases Understanding of Rules
Business Rule Manager integrates with the Modernization Workbench platform. This allows users to rely on the rich application analysis capabilities that the platform provides to understand the structure and behavior of discovered rules. Unlike technologies that provide mountains of business rules with no context, the Modernization Workbench ensures that users can readily understand how uncovered rules form a business' operations.
Documentation and Organization that Enhance Governance
Business Rule Manager provides an environment for analysts to add business-level documentation and organize their business rules into 'bottom-up' models. Further, because rules in Business Rule Manager remain persistent despite changes to the code, they will stay relevant and useful even after the application is placed back into production.
Leverage the Value of the Rules Repository
Business Rule Manager stores rules documentation in a centralized XML-based repository, ensuring that users and other technologies can readily reuse information extracted for Enterprise Application Modernization initiatives. For instance, stored rules can be used for redevelopment activities and as documentation to enables developers to focus enhancement efforts on the correct rule changes. Further, the resulting documentation can be harnessed from the standards-based repository as a basis for modernizing to business rules engines or architectural driven modernization.
Complete 'Top-Down' and 'Bottom-Up' Approach to Understanding Operations
Business Rule Manager integrates with the Application Remodeler™ module of the Modernization Workbench. The integration allows analysts to organize business rules into UML-based models of an organization's business processes. This provides a complete, contextualized view of the business and ensures that application modernization and maintenance activities can harness the value of proven operations.