A business rule management system (BRMS) is a suite of tools that policy managers use along with software developers to build custom systems that extract business policies out of software code. The policies can then be directly authored, modified and managed—independent from the underlying software system. A BRMS covers the complete life cycle of rules within an organization, and it aims to streamline the administration and improvement of an organization’s business rules across the enterprise.

BRMS solutions automate business policies in custom and composite business applications. They lower application maintenance costs, facilitate more accurate and consistent business policy implementation across applications, and improve collaboration between your business and IT departments.

Why use ILOG’s BRMS?
Managers responsible for policy making in decision-rich enterprises have benefited enormously from information technology.  But as the pace of change has increased, and the reach of automation has been extended, traditional software applications have been unable to deliver the flexibility and agility required by most businesses.

ILOG’s BRMS-based applications, however, deliver flexibility and agility, and enhance the entire policy management infrastructure of the enterprise at the same time. ILOG’s BRMS products add flexibility and performance to your business rule applications, whatever the challenge. ILOG’s easy-to-use tools include the functionality to support rule definition, deployment, maintenance and retirement.

ILOG BRMS treats business rules as your corporate asset by enabling effective and efficient management of your business rules through their lifecycle. Externalizing business rules provides:

More agility
Smarter execution
Reduced IT costs

Key benefits:

• Take rule editing into your own hands
  With ILOG BRMS, policies and practices are expressed as English-syntax business rules instead of computer code. Developers, analysts, managers and administrators use powerful editing tools to manage, track and change rules.
• Build consistency into your systems
  ILOG BRMS stores rules in a central repository. The same rules are accessed by every organization in the enterprise, across touch points and applications. Teams employ consistent regulations and practices, ensuring prompt compliance.
• Accelerate updates
  With ILOG BRMS, you get zero-latency rule changes, so your rules are updated quickly and accurately. Business analysts can change decision logic themselves, relieving overworked IT departments.

ILOG’s leadership
ILOG leads the BRMS market. Our experience proves that organizations should focus on both the business and technical aspects of business rule management, in order to maximize their return on investment (ROI).

We at ILOG understand that there are many different stakeholders with a variety of different skill sets and needs who are involved throughout the business cycle. We respond by delivering the right tools and processes for both business and IT users.

ILOG  JRules and ILOG Rules for .Net are our two key solutions for the creation, deployment and management of rules within process-centric environments. Both solutions have similar functional aims, but they have been created to respond to a specific underlying infrastructure. ILOG JRules has been created to work in Java environments, and ILOG Rules for .NET responds to Microsoft .Net environments.