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What's better than using the Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio to model, analyze, test and deploy your business logic; increasing your agility and reducing development and deployment costs ten-fold? Using Corticon Business Rules Collaborator to manage your rule assets through their entire lifecycle; from inception, and modeling through integration and deployment. You see, business rules are critical to power agile enterprise applications. But business rules evolve through development and maintenance cycles and require the attention of a number of contributors, reviewers and approvers. In addition, you need to control access and manage versions. Managing business rules through a complex lifecycle is challenging. Yet with the assistance of the Corticon Business Rules Collaborator, teams can work in harmony, and projects can be managed far more efficiently and effectively. Developing business rules requires a collaborative team effort.
Built for Collaborative Rules Development Projects
The Corticon Rules Collaborator delivers a dynamic environment to capture, share and manage all rules project assets. This includes not only the key business rules created in the Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio, but other projects assets associated with your business rules projects such as requirements documents, project schedules, team notes and regression tests created and saved within the Corticon Business Rules Collaborator product.
- The Corticon Business Rules Collaborator is an intuitive web-based solution that does not require any client software.
- The Corticon Business Rules Collaborator provides a single environment for project teams to work together, facilitating interactions, managing rule-project assets, and driving tasks to completion.
- The Corticon Business Rules Collaborator manages group-centric collaborative spaces, giving distributed project teams easy access to content and information.
Key Capabilities
Integrated Versioning and Access Control
Managing your business rules and rules project assets is critical. You need to manage business rule versions with precision and control, and to ensure the right people have access to read, update and approve your business rules as they move from creation to production.
- Versioning and access controls ensure collaborators, users, and recipients access the appropriate version of your business rules.
- Multiple levels of security provide explicit access to your business rules.
- Distributed administration gives approved content administrators the power to set access policies for assets in each domain.
- Subscription services send notification to users who want to be informed of select activities within the repository, such as an update to a particular rule set or the commentary contributed by a reviewer.
Business Rules Repository Impact Analysis
Business rules have become an integral part of your project or enterprise architecture. You need to be able to find the right rule sets to leverage across projects, and you need to be able to find where rule sets have been impacted by some other change in your environment, such as a change to your data model. Corticon Business Rules Collaborator has the capabilities needed to increase your knowledge and use of your business rules.
- Sophisticated search and analysis tools to allow you to find business rules based on your rules vocabulary, implemented business rules, English language rules statements, or other meta-data associated with your business rules.
- Perform rules impact analysis, finding vocabularies and rules that have been impacted by changes in your environment.
Rule Management Workflows
Corticon Business Rules Collaborator includes a complete workflow management system to help you move rules project work through the appropriate review and approval processes.
- Create work flows to route business rules, rules vocabularies and any related documents or materials for review, approval, integration or deployment.
- New workflows can be created from simple web wizards, without the need to program.
- Workflows can be saved and used as standard processes.
- Due dates, escalation actions and alerts help you manage the project's schedule.
- Full audit trail and monitoring keeps managers informed.
Comprehensive Deployment Environment
- Intuitive browser-based client - no special client software required.
- Supports multiple platforms; runs on Solaris, Linux or Windows server.
For more information or a demonstration, please contact a Corticon Sales Consultant at +1 888.619.2424 or email us at info@corticon.com.