When you’re building business rule applications, generic software-development methodologies just aren’t enough.

Agile Business Rule Development (ABRD) is a step-by-step process for developing business rule applications. An iterative methodology, ABRD employs agile software-development values. Rule development is organized as a series of cycles: discovery, analysis, authoring, validation, and deployment. Your team stays on schedule, delivering outstanding business rule applications.

View this free one-hour webinar and learn how to:

• Leverage ABRD as first…

Since its inception in 1996, the JavaOne conference has been the focal point for showcasing the latest and greatest in Java development. ILOG has maintained a presence here for the last decade and this year the focus is on the JViews graphical component suite and its Rich Internet Application (RIA) abilities.

Nicolas Robbe, ILOG’s VP Product Marketing, does a great job of positioning ILOG and BRMS in the SOA space in a recently published video interview by SYS-CON TV from the SOA World West 2007 conference in San Francisco.

EclipseCon 2008, the fifth annual Eclipse community conference, recently took place in California. ILOG’s Daniel Selman was there, and in his own inimitable style covered the following sessions:

• Maven, Eclipse and OSGi working together
• Implementing a debugger using the DSF framework
• Supporting Multiple Versions of Eclipse
• AMD CodeSleuth
• A Love Supreme?
• Services vs. Extensions
• Cloudsmith
• Eclipse 4.0
• What is new in the Eclipse 3.4 JDT
• Ganymede Packaging
• Babel
• Eclipse and VisualStudio in 2010

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JRules 6.7 builds on the industry-leading JRules 6 BRMS. There’s more control and flexibility for business users, and expanded support for IT platform infrastructure.

This recorded presentation covers what’s new in JRules 6.7:

• Features
• Benefits
• In-depth product demonstration

Find out why JRules 6.7 is the best solution for managing decision change, complexity, and compliance in your mission-critical business systems.

• View a recorded version of the presentation
• Slides from the presentation

More JRules information:

• JRules product…

James R. Reid, senior director of technology—Analytics, Equifax

James covers how ILOG’s BRMS is integrated into Equifax InterConnect. InterConnecct is Equifax’s decisioning platform which automates credit and lending processes.

Some points from James’ presentation:

For rule development, typically the business requirements come in from the business user/analyst. Within the rules studio Equifax have their own custom plug-ins on top of the BRMS. For instance, a BOM plug-in to verbalize all BOMs.Equifax…

Daryl Plummer, group vice president and Chief Gartner Fellow

In this lively presentation, Daryl Plummer highlighted the changing perspective around the way systems are built, deployed and used.

Daryl started by pointing out that when it comes to adopting a technology like SOA, you need to build a case for the business value. You also need to be aware that SOA is not something you choose to do, it’s something that…

Moderator:
Tony Baer (TB), principal, onStrategies; formerly an analyst with Datamonitor/Computerwire

Panelists:
Barry Vandevier (BV), CTO, Travelocity
Sandeep Gupta (SG), Vice President, Strategic Software Development, Equifax
Chris French (CF), Partner, Deloitte Consulting
Sam Paper (SP), Senior Vice President, Client Management and Credit Technology, Strategy and Service Orientation, Bank of America

TB: What is your strategy on .NET?

SP: We’re pleased with the responsiveness of ILOG in bringing .NET products to market.…

I was another fly-on-the-wall for the second analysts breakfast. This time round analysts from Gartner were on hand to answer questions around business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business rules management systems (BRMS) issues.

Analysts:
David McCoy (DM), managing vice president and Gartner Fellow
Daryl Plummer (DP), group vice president and Chief Gartner Fellow

Here’s a few of the questions I picked up on:

Question: Do you find that…

Moderator:
Steve Nunez (SN), product reviews contributor, InfoWorld

Panel:
Maura Cole (MC), Business System Specialist, aigdirect.com
Darren Koch (DK), Senior Manager, Revenue Management, Hotwire
James Taylor (JT), author of “Smart (Enough) Systems”

The session started with questions from Steve:

SN: How do you work with linking your business processes to rules?

MC: We work with Excel to test the rules. This is a fully manual process, although we can move to production quickly.…