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Reducing maintenance with business rules

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I saw this post on Rajgo's blog - Five reasons to use Business Rules to Reduce Maintenance. He discusses a piece by Jeroen on code maintainability that has four key attributes. While the post made most of the key points I thought I would add a few:

  • Modularity
    Not only are decision services modular, but the underlying structure of rulesets used to manage the rules that go into a decision provides a further layer of modularity below the service or decision level.
  • Consistency
    Again the layer of management below decisions allows parts of a decision to be consistent across decisions as well as for decisions to be consistent. Engagement of business users in rule maintenance also helps ensure that automated decision-making is consistent with any remaining manual decision-making
  • Simplicity & Conciseness
    The declarative nature of rules and their management as independent, atomic object makes them simpler and more concise than the equivalent code.
  • Self-descriptiveness & Understandability
    Graphical metaphors and a clearer, business-friendly syntax makes rules more descriptive and more understandable than code.
I have blogged on this topic a couple of times.

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James Taylor

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


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