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What's the right model for rules in SOA?

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An piece by David Marco in DM Review this month caught my eye - Metadata Management & Enterprise Architecture: SOAs and Metadata Management, Part 2. Here's a graphic he uses, reproduced from DM Review:

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Now I have to take issue with this. Here's what I would propose instead:

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The difference is that business rules both control data and make decisions and decisions support (and are supported by) processes. Decisions are a first class object and deserve to be treated as such. Hopefully David will post a comment and respond.

BTW I posted about three other DM Review articles today. Check out The Opportunity for Analytics, Business Event Monitoring and Metadata and Business Rules

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Hi,

Shouldn't there be a many-to-many relationship in between decisions and data, too? Some decisions are taken making use of information, or am I wrong?

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Marc

Marc

You are correct and I agree - the diagram is meant to imply exactly that - a many to many between decisions and data. Looking at it again today I can see why you might not have thought that it did.

JT

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James Taylor blogs on decision management for ebizQ, and is an independent consultant on decision management, predictive analytics, business rules, and related topics.

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