Entrenched business processes are enabled by entrenched application systems. As a result, efforts to change or retool business processes can be streamlined through the factual analysis of the data and rules embedded in these systems. This session will explain how to capture and analyze business logic to support system and business process retooling initiatives. The discussion includes data usage and business logic extraction from existing systems and mapping the results to top-down, logical designs.
Compliance with government regulations has forced organizations to look at their businesses in a new light. Leaders are beginning to leverage their compliance efforts in order to drive concurrent business improvements.
These improvements may not only help a business perform better, but may also fundamentally reinforce the primary purpose of regulatory mandates – improved transparency into business management along with bolstered investor & market confidence.
This presentation will explore the dual focus that is required in today’s marketplace.
Time: 2:45 PM 6-28-2005
This case study relates how NYSLRS progressed from Rules Maturity Model Level 0 to Level 2 in under a year by using a low cost/low risk methodology that allows for the incremental implemented of business rules in legacy systems. This approach, User-defined Function Approach, allows a company to convert legacy systems into modern agile systems or to investigate the use business rules before selecting a Business Rule Processing solution. IBM has endorsed UDFA as a best practice for business rule implementation.
How do process models and business rules modeling relate in practice? If business rules are separated from process, how are the two integrated and how is the resultant model improved by this technique? This presentation describes a proven, iterative approach to integrating process and business rule modeling that improves the clarity of the overall business models produced and exposes the essential business processes with less procedural bias.
Time: 12:15 PM 6-28-2005
Business flexibility requires that companies be responsive...responsive to customers, suppliers, the market, and competitive threats. But how can you respond if you don't know where you are? And if you don't know where you are, how can you decide where you are going? Business Innovation and Optimization helps you not only to understand clearly the state of your business today, right now, but also to anticipate customer demand, competitor's moves, and market dynamics.
Time:15:45 6-29-2005
Sun Preventive Services provide risk analysis and management solutions for their customers. In order to provide a more flexible and robust solution, Sun decided to use a business rules approach to automate and manage the decision processes involved in analyzing customer systems (hardware, software, patch level and other critical systems data) and recommending resolutions for incompatibilities and configuration errors.
By: Janet Wall, President, Knowledge Partners, Inc.
Organizations today are constantly reviewing IT projects to focus on those projects that will provide value to the success of the business. In addition, there are external pressures affecting business projects, such as the increasing rate of business change due to mergers and acquisitions, intense global competition, the opportunity and challenges of offshore systems development, and strict regulatory requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the USA PATRIOT Act and HIPAA. These increasing business pressures have led to the growing adoption of a business rules approach across industries.
Contributed by:Barbara von Halle, Managing Partner & Founder,
Knowledge Partners International LLP
By: John Jack Stellrecht, Project Leader, New York State and Local Retirement System
How does a conservative government organization fast track a paradigm shift? One method that has worked well is to keep the change process so simple that the lure of it is irresistible. This is precisely how it happened at the New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS). The paradigm shift is one towards Business Rule Management (BRM). The change process is the User-defined Function Approach (UDFA). The measurement of success was provided by Barbara von Halle, founder of Knowledge Partners, Inc (KPI).
Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) offers organizations the opportunity to lift performance in many areas of operations. Wherever business processes involve complex decisions, and these decisions must be made rapidly, in high volumes and under changing conditions, EDM will improve results.
Contributed by:Barbara von Halle, Managing Partner & Founder,
Knowledge Partners International LLP
By: Barbara von Halle, Editorial Director, BR Bulletin & Founder, Knowledge Partners, Inc.
