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Internal ILOG Document 1
The Business Rules Platform and Enterprise Integration
ILOG, Inc.
Daniel [email protected]
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Who Are You?
• Product Manager, ILOG Business Rules• Enterprise Integration in general• Rule engine requirements• J2EE requirements• IBM zSeries requirements
• JSR-94 Specification Lead• BEA WebLogic Portal Architect
• Lead rule engine team for web personalization technology
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Agenda
• Enterprise scale challenges• Integration (BPM)• Enterprise BRMS• Integration Requirements
• Subject Matter Experts• Software Engineering Practices• Operations Support• Data Stores
• Conclusions
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Enterprise Challenges
• Integrating multiple systems• Dealing with scale• Vendor relationships• Change management• Mission critical systems• (Many) people and processes (incl. security)• Geography, culture, language• Hot-backup, Cold-backup• Staging, production process• Politics!
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Moving Beyond Quick Wins...
• Deep enterprise integration• Providing a strong platform for customers
and vendors to leverage• Parse and JIT 100,000 rules...• Evaluate 40,000 rules in 20 ms• Execute millions of rules per-day• “Bet my business technology...”• Professional services, support, maintenance
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Enterprise Architecture
• Rule engines are becoming an important component of enterprise architecture:
• Structural Logic => OR/ER models, source code• Fixed Business Logic => BPM, work flow• Variable Business Logic => Business Rules
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Moving to Mainstream
• “He who owns the compiler wins...”• Have to ease adoption of BR technology for IT• System Administrators are key• Have to understand enterprise challenges
and culture• Cannot impose solutions – have to be flexible
yet complete• Have to integrate
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Microsoft BizTalk
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BizTalk – Business Process
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BizTalk - Rule Engine
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BizTalk – Rule Editing
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IBM WBI – Business Process
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BEA WebLogic Workshop
Demo
ILOG JRules and BEA WLI
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Enterprise BRMS
Business Rule ManagementApplication Development
Deployment
RequirementsAnalysis
Development
Testing
DeveloperDeveloperBusiness AnalystBusiness Analyst
Sys AdminSys Admin
Testing
Deployment
Authoring
Business Rule Execution
Policy ManagerPolicy Manager
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Enterprise BRMS
• Enterprise BRMS supports:• All participants in the BRM life cycle• Large projects with large development teams• Rule maintenance by large, distributed policy
management teams• Rule sharing across multiple applications,
multiple platforms• Enterprise-class integration methods
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Integration Requirements
• People• Engineers, Subject Matter Experts, Policy
Managers...• Tools
• IDE, BPM tools, monitoring, authoring, reporting...• Processes
• Configurations, staging, deployment, testing, requirements, auditing, security, availability...
• Data• RDBMS, CRM, CICS, IMS, Tuxedo, XML...
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Subject Matter Experts
• Are not developers...!• Policy Managers• Easy to use (business) interface• Appropriate language and complexity• Collaboration features• Flexibility in organization• Access control• Work flow and approval cycles
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Engineering
• Processes: RUP, XP, Waterfall etcetera• Integrated Development Environment• System is composed of code and
configuration• Powerful version management: branches,
workspaces, differences and merging• Debugging• Profiling• Deployment
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BR Studio Developer Edition
Demo
ILOG Business Rule StudioDeveloper Edition
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Operations Support
• High-availability• Capacity planning• Monitoring and management• Alerts• Standard protocols: SNMP, JMX
etcetera• Standard tools: HP OpenView,
IBM Tivoli etcetera
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Integration Requirements
• Data Stores• Rule engine must process external data• Where is it coming from?
• Typically RDBMS tables or XML files• Often legacy data stores• Sometimes ERP or CRM systems• Sometimes Web Services
• Usually results are written to a persistent store• Transactional application• Auditing and logging
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Conclusions
• 2004 is an exciting time for business rules!• This is a hard problem: due to integration
issues not (just) technology or algorithms.• We must do a better job at communicating
how business rules integrate with traditional programming skills and roles.
See you at JavaOne 2004!
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References
• Rule Engines and J2EE: A Platform for Flexible Enterprise Applications:
• http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/sf2003/conf/sessions/display-1412.en.jsp
• Microsoft BizTalk:
• http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/
• IBM Business Performance Management:
• http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/topic/perform/
• ILOG Business Rules Products
• http://www.ilog.com/products/businessrules/
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Questions and Discussion
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