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Innovations Software enables business rules collaboration

By David Worthington

November 26, 2008 — Different stakeholders have different perspectives in business rule creation. With that in mind, a business rule management system software maker has added a collaborative rule creation capability to its platform.

On Nov. 19, version 4.3 of Innovations Software Technology's Visual Rules Enterprise Platform became generally available. The platform provides a centralized rule repository that allows for management and versioning of business rule models.

The rules models are used as top-level containers for all rules types and the artifacts that come along with them, explained Troy Foster, CTO of Innovations Software. An Eclipse-based visual designer called Visual Rules Modeler is used for rules development and maintenance.

The platform's Visual Rules Team Server is a component that enables collaboration through access control and audits rule changes. Version 4.3 adds two new user interface elements to the platform: an activities pane and an explorer pane.

The activities pane resides in Visual Rules Modeler and permits participants to view what others are working on within the same model, explained Foster.

Visual Rules Team Server resolves editing conflicts by locking rules and resources (based on inheritance), and it issues update alerts before editing happens, according to the company. Changes are continually stored while rules are being edited, making all revision auditable.

The explorer pane integrates with Visual Rules Team Sever and provides a view into the rule repository from within Visual Rules Modeler. The update also adds a new Web-based interface to the server-side component that can be used to administer permissions to teams and users, said Foster.

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