Business Rule Management System, Overview, Benefits, Impacts

This is a narrative about overview, benefits, and impacts
that will be expected when an organization is using BRMS.

Business Rule Overview
Business Rules is representation of organization defined conditions, requirements, policies, that is required for a business process for it to be able to make a business decision.

Traditionally, business rules are often hard-coded in a application code, this situation makes it hard when we need to make a change to a business rule. To change that business rule, we have to get that IT person in charge of the application, so the rule is tied in the application and have to be managed in technical perspective.

But often, many situation, such as new organization policies, regulations, we need to change that business rule, and we (the business domains) need to have it changed quick.

BRMS as a Solution
Business Rule Management System (BRMS) is a system infrastructure, that enables organization, to effectively create, manage business rules according to their own business specification, policies and regulations.

Using BRMS, important business rules can be externalized from technical applications, so when there’s need to change a business rule, we will just change it in the BRMS system, without the need to break the technical application first.

BRMS will also provide convenience methods for Business Analysts to get themselves in the creation of business rules. So business users will have the capabilities they needed to create, review and make changes to a business rule in a intuitive and user friendly way.

BRMS will provide an execution platform, where this rules can be executed, dependent from technical applications. In case of future needs, any application can be integrated to BRMS to use these existing rules.

Benefits of BRMS

• Business Rule Platform, BRMS enables organization to implement their business specification, requirement, and policies as a business rule inthe BRMS system. These rules in turn, will be used by many technical applications.
• Centralized rule management, BRMS will provide unified rule repositoryfor the organization, so there will be no hard coded business rule that spans multiple technical application/system that’s hard to track and change.
• Achieving business agility, often times, business rule will frequenty need to be changed, according to current policies and regulations. BRMS enables organization to change their business behavior quickly.
• Business User enablement, BRMS also provides convenience methods forBusiness Domains users, so they will have the ability to create, review, and modify business rules in an intuitive and user friendly way (such as using excel-like table, visual trees). This will also minimize dependency of Business Users to the IT Department, thereby achieving business flexibility.

Impacts of Using BRMS

• Needs to socialize BRMS functions the IT depatment, business users and managers, so the organization can effectively realize the benefits fully.
• Needs to do integration from the BRMS to future applications, and/or existing applications (if needed), in order to fully leverage the BRMS system.
• Needs to identify which business rule that should be handled in the BRMS system.

BRMS Products:
-IBM ILOG JRules
-Oracle Business Rules
-JBoss Drools
-WSO2 Business Rules Server


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Introduction to ZK Framework

ZK is a RIA (Rich Internet Application) framework,
the uses technology such as
Ajax, XUL, HTML, XHTML, Java.

Unlike traditional dynamic web programming
that often uses Javascript with its compatibity
problems between browsers.
ZK use Java as scripting language, and
the script is executed on the server side (zscript).

By using the Java language, script code
is more standard, portable
and more powerful because it can
use existing Java class libraries.

For server side scripting, ZK uses
Beanshell interpreter as the script engine.
using Beanshell, Java language
can be used like a scripting language, with
features such as the creation of dynamic variables (without
being declared first and without given a type).

ZK also provides a component library,
which provides a variety of ready to use UI components,
such as textbox, button, etc..

ZK allows event-driven programming
just like the desktop programming paradigm,
but with a web based architecture.

This is possible with the use of
Ajax for event creation, and delivery mechanism
from the client side to server side.


The ZK architecture is quite similar to JSF,
with concepts like
component tree, implicit objects, application lifecycle,
EL (expression language).

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BPM Intro

Apa itu BPM ?

BPM adalah singkatan dari Business Process Management.

Fungsi dari BPM
adalah sesuai dengan namanya memanage business process,
dalam arti membuat, dan kemudian melakukan improvement
terhadap business process yang sudah berjalan.

Pengguna BPM adalah business analyst yaitu orang yang
mengerti proses bisnis yang dilakukan, dan merupakan
ahli pada bidangnya (domain expert).

BPM sendiri terkait dengan metodologi process improvement (Six Sigma, etc) ,
tapi sekarang bisa juga diartikan dan dikaitkan dengan tools/software BPM.

Fungsi software BPM antara lain:
-Fungsi yang user friendly terhadap business users (analysts, managers)
-Memungkinkan business user melakukan proces modeling,
menggunakan notasi pemodelan bisnis proses yang standard
yaitu BPMN
-Memungkinkan business user melakukan pengukuran terhadap proses,
seperti penentuan KPI (Key Performance Indicator)
-Memungkinkan melakukan process simulation
-Mapat melakukan process versioning


Terkait dengan fungsi yang IT-related, BPM memungkinkan:
-Process execution, sebagai platform eksekusi proses yang sudah dimodelkan
pada fase design diatas
-Mengumpulkan data yang terkait dengan eksekusi proses, seperti
durasi eksekusi, untuk dijadikan bahan untuk process analytics
(analisa performance bisnis)
-Otomasi proses, flow dari proses bisnis, baik system related, ataupun
human related dapat diorkestrasikan dalam software BPM
-Integrasi dengan infrastruktur IT yang telah ada, khususnya
pada saat ini, software BPM seringkali dikaitkan untuk memanfaatkan
(leverage) infrastruktur SOA yang ada pada organisasi tsb.

Dari segi vendor, ada beberapa vendor yang menyediakan produk BPM, antara lain:
-Oracle: Oracle BPM Suite 11g
-IBM: IBM Websphere Lombardi Edition (diakuisisi dari Lombardi)
-Intalio: Intalio BPMS