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1. Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio
Agility: Collapse Your Rules Development Lifecycle
Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio Extend Rule Modeling Access to Everyone in Your Organization
is a standalone desktop environment to Easy to learn and easy to use, Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio
model, analyze, test and save business rules makes modeling decisions and their business rules accessible to business
professionals, business analysts and software developers alike. Corticon’s
as executable decision services. Corticon
model-driven approach eliminates the need for classic programming skills,
Studio supports all aspects of the modeling with a spreadsheet metaphor that is easy to understand, yet still offers
process, from initial capture of business support for the most sophisticated decisions and business rules. Even
requirements through the testing of the skilled programmers get the benefit of significantly reduced development
cycles when using Corticon Studio to create and maintain rule-based
decision against organizational data -
decision services. Within its environment you can model, analyze and test
delivering complete, deployment-ready rule sets independent of any IT system, then save them as executable
decision services. decision services.
Assure the Quality and Consistency of Your Organization’s Decisions
One of the greatest challenges to successful business rule projects is
assuring that your business logic will produce the correct outcome for all
possible scenarios. The cost in time and resources to perform exhaustive
functional testing is prohibitive. Corticon overcomes this challenge by
ensuring that any rule model constructed and analyzed using Corticon
Studio will produce the correct outcome every time it executes. Corticon
Studio provides tools based on Corticon-patented logical analysis
CORTICON BUSINESS RULES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM techniques that show you how to resolve all rule conflicts, ambiguities,
and unintended logic loops. Missing business rules are automatically found
and modeled for you. Scenario-based testing tools confirm correct model
execution behavior for any number of user-defined test cases. You analyze
and test your logic during modeling, which eliminates multiple hand-offs
and the potential for classic communication problems when multiple
people and tools are used to define, construct and test.
Optimize Model Performance and Scalability Every Time You Save
Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio plays a leading role in the delivery of
enterprise-class run time performance and scalability. It automatically gener-
ates a performance-optimized, executable decision service every time it saves a
rule set. This reduces the burden associated with fine tuning rule performance
at run time.

2. Key Features of The Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio
An intuitive spreadsheet environment to · Comprehensive Modeling Language: Corticon’s modeling · Completeness Checker: Identifies missing business · Debugging and Diagnosis: Compare expected results
language is both easy to learn and comprehensive in its rules, highlighting coverage gaps within a rulesheet to actual results to identify possible errors. Test cases
model, verify and test any business logic,
expressiveness. Any business logic can be represented both between and at the edges of a value range. produce the list of rule statements that were posted during
regardless of its complexity. accurately and completely using Corticon’s declarative rule Completeness checker also automatically generates execution allowing you to easily determine exactly how the
language. the missing business rules. results were created and more quickly find the root cause
of unexpected behavior. For more complex decision logic,
· Vocabulary Management: Corticon’s vocabulary represents
Sophisticated, Intuitive Rule Modeling you can pause after each rulesheet executes to inspect the
the business terms used by the rules, and supports user-
Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio provides a complete intermediate results.
defined vocabularies that consist of business-specific and
rule modeling framework and tools to make modeling easy to industry-specific terms, their relationship to each other, · Reuse Test Cases and Test Data: Populate the test cases by
learn and easy to use. It automatically handles the underlying and the type of data that can be assigned to them. You entering the test data by hand, or use a remote database to
complexities of constructing business rules, so you can focus create vocabularies using the vocabulary editor. Better store test cases to enable reuse and regression testing.
on the logic of your business decisions. yet, you can create any number of vocabularies, and the
· Rule Requirements Capture: Capture your rule requirements same vocabulary can be reused as part of any number of
in natural-language rule statements and organize them rule models. Business terms can be based on data models,
into logical groups. These rule statements are used for object models and XML schemas.
reference during model construction. They also provide · Extensible Rule Operator Library: Choose from a large
important traceability from requirement to implementation library of operators to contruct your business rules. Similar
- to facilitate regulatory audits, documentation generation, to the Microsoft® Excel function library, the Corticon Completeness Checker Automatically Fills Out Missing Rules for You
and model maintenance. And they are used as outcome operator library includes many standard operators such
messages in the model itself - vital for testing and · Logical Loop Checker: Detects logical loops across all rules
as mathematical functions { +, -, *, /} and comparator
debugging prior to deployment, and for explaining in a rule set, helping you find unintended loops that would
functions {<, >, =}, as well as more specialized functions to
outcomes of real decisions after deployment. cause your business logic to stall at run time.
handle collections and date-time calculations. The library is
· Intuitive Modeling Interface: Build rule models by extensible, so if you need an operator that is not included,
constructing rules within a graphical framework based you can add it yourself. Comprehensive Scenario-based Model Testing Rule Statements Explain the Reasoning Behind Test Results
on Corticon’s patented rulesheet concept. Eliminate the Corticon Studio includes a complete test bed for functional
Template-based Reporting for Documentation
need to memorize rule language operators or business testing of rule models at design time. It provides the
Advanced Analysis Tools for Decision Logic Validation and Audit
vocabulary by using drag-and-drop rule construction. foundation for unit testing, regression testing, and data-driven
Corticon Studio includes patented technology that Use the Studio Reporting Framework to generate HTML
functional analysis at the granularity of a rule, rulesheet, or
automatically identifies logical errors in your rule models, and reports from vocabulary, rule set, and test files. View and
rule set.
Modeling Interface Extends the Spreadsheet Metaphor provides interactive assistance in resolving them. print using any web browser, or publish to your corporate
· Test Cases: The primary building blocks of scenario testing content management system.
· Ambiguity Checker: Highlights and describes conflicts
are test cases that leverage the same vocabulary used
between two or more rules on a rulesheet. Graphical tools
to construct the business rules. Construct sophisticated
show you exactly under which scenarios rules conflict, with
groups of tests that span multiple rule models to test the
expansion and filtering capabilities to facilitate visualization
rule interaction within complex decision logic.
in complex rulesheets.
· Authentic Rule Execution: Run test cases one at a time or in
batch through Studio’s embedded rules engine (the same
rules engine deployed in Corticon Busines Rules Server),
or direct the test case at a remote instance of Corticon
Business Rules Server.

3. Summary Of Benefits Compatible Third-Party Modeling Tools
· Extend rule modeling access to everyone in your · Rational Rose and other XMI-compliant export sources
organization
· Assure the quality and consistency of your organization’s
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
decisions
Corticon 5 Studio
· Optimize model performance and scalability every time
you save This version of Corticon Studio requires Microsoft Windows
2000, XP, Vista, or 7.
Minimum hardware requirements for Windows 2000 include:
Summary Of Features
· Pentium 3-class or compatible CPU.
· Sophisticated, intuitive rule modeling
· 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended).
· Advanced analysis tools for decision logic validation
Corticon 4.3 Studio
· Comprehensive scenario-based model testing · Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP
· Template-based reporting for documentation · Processor Pentium 3-class or compatible CPU
and audit
· Hard Disk Space 70 MB disk space
· Memory 128 MB RAM
Integral Part of the Corticon Business Rules
Management System (BRMS)
Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio works as a
standalone modeling environment or as part of the Corticon
Business Rules Management System. It communicates
directly with the central repository in the Corticon Business
Rules Collaborator to share vocabularies, rule sets and test
scenarios across the organization. It plugs into the Corticon
Enterprise Data Connector to enable model-driven data
integration. And it creates the deployment files needed by
Corticon Business Rules Server to integrate and execute
the rules as a decision service. When used together, these
products provide a complete platform for managing the
lifecycle of decisions across the enterprise. About Corticon
Corticon enables organizations to make better, faster decisions
by automating business rules. Corticon’s patented “no-coding”
rules engine is used by over 450 customers to automate their
most sophisticated decision processes, reducing development
and change cycles by 90%. Automated decision management
with Corticon empowers organizations to improve productivity
and customer service, and adapt quickly to changing market
conditions.
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