Recently I encountered two potential clients, in the midst of selecting business rules support software for high volume transaction processing, who were actively considering a continuous event processing (CEP) platform as an alternative to a BRMS. Given that business stewardship of their business rules (as opposed to rules managed exclusively by their IT department) was a goal of both projects - were they right to consider CEP? I do not think so.

Occasionally the event processing requirements will mandate the sophistication of a CEP, but frequently they do not. In the latter cases a BRMS is a better solution. Find our what happened to the project who chose the CEP platform. Read More...

Tags: CEP, Business Rules, Cautionary Tale, Tools

In recent years a new set of tools is emerging to allow business users to maintain their business vocabularies, rules and fact models. These differ from business rule management systems (BRMS) in that they are firmly oriented toward business experts and not technologists. What functionality do these tools offer and how do they differ from BRMS? Read More...

Tags: Tools, Business Rules