Free White Papers

The white papers hereunder have been written by Lux Magi consultants to benefit their colleagues. They are available free of charge and without obligation. To request a copy of any paper, just click on its title.

Business Rule White Papers

The white papers listed hereunder address best practices for the adoption and use of Business Rules and Business Rule Management Systems.

●WP202 The Top Ten Mistakes Made By Corporate Adopters of BRMS and How to Avoid Them

In this white paper, first appearing in October 2009's User Experience Reports, we examine the most common mistakes made by companies that are using business rules technologies for the first time. Whether you are trying to select BRMS tools, you have recently embarked on your first business rules project or you are experiencing difficulties on your first project, this paper will show you the pitfalls and how to avoid them. (CLICK HERE TO REQUEST)

●WP204 Business Rule Management Systems: What You Don’t Get ‘Out out the Box’

The popularity of Business Rule Management Systems (BRMSs) is increasing as many businesses strive to improve their development agility. But adopters are discovering, to their cost, that BRMS tools only solve a small part of the business problem. Others are finding that their first BRMS projects fail, despite a promising start, because they encounter so many problems that adoption of a BRMS does not address or, what’s worse, that it seems to introduce. In this article, Jan Purchase enumerates the benefits of BRMSs and the five issues that you must address before your organisation can enjoy a good return on its investment. (CLICK HERE TO REQUEST)

●WP211 The Advantage of Implementing Accounting Systems Using Business Rule Management Systems

The need for greater agility, business visibility, control and transparency of business policy is vital in accounting applications. Elsewhere these factors are coercing businesses to extract the business logic from their IT components and manage it as a separate asset. The appeal of using Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) to achieve this is clear: when used correctly these tools can reduce policy change turnaround times from weeks to hours and put business policy experts—not IT departments—in the driving seat.
In this paper we discuss the specific advantages of this approach in accounting systems and demonstrate the benefits of implementing your own accounting system based on a BRMS, rather than implementing a fully bespoke system or buying an ‘off-the-shelf’ package.(CLICK HERE TO REQUEST)