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Business rules are about agility: the ability to create and change critical business decision logic quickly and reliably without altering software code. The key to business rules is the ability to have a wider audience, from developers to line-of-business users, anyone participate in the rules creation process.
That is where Corticon excels. Corticon Studio has evolved business rules authoring to a new level! Corticon has taken business rules authoring and evolved it to business rules modeling. You need to see it to believe it!
If you remember the dramatic shift products like spreadsheets brought to the market, you will begin to understand the impact of Corticon Studio. Before spreadsheets, it could take months to build a financial analysis in languages like COBOL. Modeling these same financial analyses in spreadsheets helped shrink this to hours. The results were better because domain experts could implement directly, with no handoffs and interpretation of intent. Iterations were quicker, and "learning" or "converging" on the right model was quicker because it was performed by the same person, the author. Corticon Studio represents the same dramatic shift.
Business rules problems are being solved in 10X less time with Corticon Studio! Imagine a 90% reduction in the time from idea to automation. Effectiveness is achieved because of the efficacy of Corticon rule modeling, and because Corticon Studio verifies and tests your business rules as a part of the modeling process. Business rules are verified to be correct the moment they are modeled, not during some later testing phase. Eliminating these iterative cycles alone, is worth days or weeks in time-to-market. And that is only one benefit of Corticon's business rules modeling approach.
The Corticon Studio is the industry's first standalone desktop business rules modeler used to capture and formalize mission-critical decisions into sets of interrelated business rules. The Corticon Studio has been designed specifically with business agility in mind. No programming skills are necessary to capture, validate, test and manage decision-intensive business activities. Once modeled, verified and tested, Corticon Studio produces an execution service, ready for production automation. Again...you need to see it to believe it!
The Strategic Difference
Business Friendly
Achieving the promised agility from business rules requires that business and IT are aligned and working from the same page. Corticon offers a single consistent spreadsheet like interface where any business rules problem can be modeled, verified and tested, regardless of its complexity. That means that business and IT can share a common language. No more business to coding translation problems. Corticon Studio is easy enough for a business user to master, but can handle the most sophisticated business rules problems assuring that IT will turn to Corticon Studio for its tremendous productivity and reliability benefits.
Assure You Get Your Business Rules RIGHT!
Read the literature. One of the primary problems with business rules is getting the business rules right. Anyone can give you a business friendly interface to write a business rule. But many business rules come together to make a decision. That's where other products fail.
Corticon Studio is the only solution that includes built-in business rules analysis and verification within the business rules authoring environment.
- Corticon Studio will graphically show you where your business rules are ambiguous and in conflict.
- Corticon Studio is the only product that will automatically identify and propose new business rules for you, dealing with the problem of business rules incompleteness.
- Corticon shows you where you may have unintended logical loops in your business rules.
- Corticon even compresses your business rules to remove redundant business rules, easing maintenance and improving performance.
Corticon Studio delivers the agility promised by business rules, but with the safety you require because you know your business rules are right.
Model Driven
People talk about "Model Driven", but what does that mean? In most "Model Driven" products the business friendly interfaces generates a lower level technical language, not an executable. Often this is Java or potentially a proprietary language. To solve problems of any sophistication, you are forced to work with the low level language. Ask us for examples, we have seen many. At that point the advantages of the business-friendly interface are lost. This lower level code is what is manipulated and maintained and the value of agility is lost.
Not true with Corticon Studio. Corticon Studio is the only business rules modeling solution that doesn't generate a lower level language. Corticon Studio generates an executable service (e.g. web service, java service, etc.) What does that mean for you?
- You will never end up maintaining code when you anticipated working through a business friendly interface. Our competitors cannot fulfill on that claim.
- You will be assured that your business can respond to internal or market changes at business-rules-promised speeds.
Fully Declarative
Business rules are intended to be declarative. Meaning that you tell the rules system what you want done, not how to do it. Corticon is a purely declarative environment. Most business rules products have let procedural methods drift into their solutions. So what does this mean for you? It means Corticon can solve complex problems simply. Where other product might force a classic programming "for loop", Corticon does not. So instead of telling the system to loop through all order records adding the cost to some variable in order to figure out order total, you just tell Corticon to total the order. Simple! Done!
Bottom Line. A Dramatic Reduction in Time-to-Market
By combining drag-and-drop business rules authoring with business rules verification and testing into a highly effective business rules modeling environment, great results are produced quickly. You eliminate the elongated cycles associated with one group testing the business rules of a different authoring group, only to return the work over and over, each time they find a new problem. Corticon's patent-pending business rules modeler is the only product that shrinks the rules authoring / change cycle as well as the larger authoring through test to production cycle: by 10X!
A Solution For All Roles
Software Developer
Corticon Studio is powerful enough to deal with your most sophisticated problem, but business friendly enough to share with your business users.
- Shrink business rules development by 10X over any other coding or business rules method
- Spend your time on strategic IT contributions by allowing your business users to maintain their business rules safely
Business Analyst
Corticon is a perfect bridge between business and IT
- Fully express decision analysis in a modeled form
- The perfect complement to business process modeling
- Deliver business rules models that your business users can understand
- Corticon modeling facilitates interactive rules discovery meetings, pointing out key questions, such as ambiguous rules, for discussion and immediate resolution
Business User / Domain Expert
Increased participation with the business decisions that your organization owns.
- As easy to use as a spreadsheet. Corticon Studio can be mastered in hours
- Test new business initiatives through business rules, easily setting up new or changes business rules, or setting champion/challenger processing
KEY FEATURES
CAPABILITY |
BENEFIT |
Intuitive Drag-and-Drop Development |
Allows business users, the source of knowledge to create and manage their own business rules |
Robust Business Rule Support and Extensibility |
Captures all types of business rules including inference, action-assertions and user definable rule types |
Business Rules Analysis and Verification |
Finds and removes business rules ambiguity and incompleteness |
Integrated Business Rules Testing Environment |
Allows users to create or import test data and immediately verify results during the modeling process |
Performance Optimization |
Optimizes rules execution during modeling to produce higher performance during business rules execution |
Multi-User Capabilities |
For more information or a demonstration, please contact a Corticon Solutions Consultant at +1 888.619.2424 or email us at info@corticon.com.