This document discusses how automating business rules with Corticon's Business Rules Management System (BRMS) can help organizations make better, faster decisions and achieve greater operational agility. Corticon's model-driven BRMS allows users to model, automate, and maintain operational decisions and the underlying business rules without programming. This helps ensure consistency, accuracy, and the ability to quickly change rules in response to shifting business needs or regulations. The system manages the entire lifecycle of operational decisions across industries such as insurance, financial services, and government.
In today's economy there is a driving need to cut costs. Yet the uncertain and changing environment makes business agility more critical than ever. To successfully address both these challenges companies must reduce maintenance costs and lead times for their existing mainframe systems and core application portfolio. They need to find ways to renovate the right pieces of their existing applications. Minimizing risk by retaining the majority of the code, yet reducing maintenance costs and improving agility by modernizing critical components. Service-Oriented Architectures deliver the framework to successfully transform core IT assets, and companies are rightfully embracing the approach. But more is needed.
This presentation covers applying Decision Management, SOA and Business Rules Management Systems to renovate your existing applications. Used together these approaches dramatically reduce maintenance costs and increasing business agility. You will see how to use the techniques and technologies to identify critical components, externalize them and make them easier and cheaper to manage and change. Illustrated with real customer stories, this webinar will show you how to increase agility and reduce costs.
In today's economy there is a driving need to cut costs. Yet the uncertain and changing environment makes business agility more critical than ever. To successfully address both these challenges companies must reduce maintenance costs and lead times for their existing mainframe systems and core application portfolio. They need to find ways to renovate the right pieces of their existing applications. Minimizing risk by retaining the majority of the code, yet reducing maintenance costs and improving agility by modernizing critical components. Service-Oriented Architectures deliver the framework to successfully transform core IT assets, and companies are rightfully embracing the approach. But more is needed.
This presentation covers applying Decision Management, SOA and Business Rules Management Systems to renovate your existing applications. Used together these approaches dramatically reduce maintenance costs and increasing business agility. You will see how to use the techniques and technologies to identify critical components, externalize them and make them easier and cheaper to manage and change. Illustrated with real customer stories, this webinar will show you how to increase agility and reduce costs.
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Corticon Corporate Brochure
1. Better, Faster Decisions by
Automating Business Rules
Today’s enterprise is driving harder Managing Decisions as Enterprise Assets
than ever for increased effectiveness The thousands of decisions your enterprise makes each
day collectively represent the execution of your business
and agility in business operations. policy. Like the management of your human resources,
The management of business your products, your customer database – their quality,
decisions is a critical means to effectiveness, and efficiencies directly impact your corporate
achieving these goals. performance.
Corticon’s solutions are specifically designed to help
Whether you are on-boarding new customers, processing companies manage decisions as enterprise assets, providing
claims, determining product configurations, or assessing a disciplined approach to their automation and integration
program eligibility, your decisions are governed by a set within enterprise systems. We can help you understand
of business rules. The ease with which you can capture, and proactively manage decisions – as a part of a business
change and optimize these business rules either promotes process, within an application, or via a central repository
or inhibits the agility of your organization. It also impacts that can be shared across your enterprise.
the consistency, quality and speed of your decisions – which
goes straight to your bottom line. “There is a premium on agility for most business
Organizations want to make better, faster decisions, and be sectors today, and we only expect the demand for
agile enough to change on a dime. Yet many operational agility to increase…”
decisions are still made manually by trained employees
— Gartner Group
following policies and best practices. Other decisions are
Automating Decisions with Corticon
automated by coding the decision logic into enterprise
applications. These approaches do not address some of Corticon’s solutions are deployed in the world’s largest
the greatest challenges in today’s business climate, such as financial institutions, insurance companies, government
“how to ensure consistency and accuracy across thousands organizations, telecommunication providers, retailers, and
of transactions”; and “how to keep up with change – other organizations. We help our customers unleash the
changing regulations, changing market demands, changing power of decisions, bringing agility and efficiency to
business strategy”. To achieve operational agility, your decision-intensive operations such as those described in
management team should be able to quickly modify the the table below.
business rules that affect decisions. And your IT systems
should be just as nimble.
SAMPLE DECISIONS BY INDUSTRY
Industry Process Sample Decisions
Insurance · Application, Rating, Underwriting · Assign risk rating to applicant
· Life insurance survivor benefits distribution · Determine eligibility
· Claims Processing · Evaluate claim value
Financial Services · Online Account Opening · Verify applicant identity
· Loan application, assessment and approval · Determine optimal product configuration
· Dynamic document preparation · Determine appropriate clauses for contract
Government · Medicaid Screening and Eligibility · Verify all programs citizen is eligible for
· Land Title Administration · Validate document compliance with statutes
· Worker’s Compensation Policy Administration · Determine benefit amount
2. The Corticon Solution - Better, Faster Decisions by Au
Corticon Business Rules Management System
With Corticon’s Business Rules Management System
(BRMS) you can model, automate and maintain your
operational decisions and the business rules behind
them. Our unique model-driven BRMS (protected
by US Patents 7,020,869 and 7,565,642), has been
consistently recognized for its unique combination
of ease of use, sophistication, flexibility and
unrivaled speed of implementation. Our product Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio: model-driven rules
management eliminates programming
suite is designed to manage the entire lifecycle of
operational business decisions, and includes: CORTICON BUSINESS RULES SERVER
Corticon Business Rules Server is a powerful, flexible and
CORTICON BUSINESS RULES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM scalable server that manages all run-time aspects of Corticon
decision services. It is the essential resource for managing
deployment, integration and execution of decisions
created with Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio. Its
comprehensive feature set provides unmatched runtime
performance and scalability, auditable execution, control
and reporting, and flexible integration with any application.
· Decision service execution and control
· Runtime reporting and monitoring
· Support for SOA and BPMS
· Application integration - consuming Corticon decision services
“Corticon offers the best spreadsheet-oriented
rule development tool I’ve seen.”
- James Owen, InfoWorld
CORTICON BUSINESS RULES MODELING STUDIO
CORTICON ENTERPRISE DATA CONNECTOR
A standalone desktop environment to model, analyze, test Corticon Enterprise Data Connecter (EDC) connects your
and save business rules as executable decision services. It decison services to external data sources such as relational
supports all aspects of the modeling process, from initial databases, legacy systems, file repositories and web services.
capture of business requirements through the testing Corticon EDC creates a direct connection from your decision
of the decision against organizational data - delivering services to external data as they process, without expensive
complete, deployment-ready decision services. Corticon data integration middleware or complex SQL coding.
Studio is easy to learn and easy to use. With an intuitive
spreadsheet-like interface, anyone can quickly learn how Corticon EDC- Single Source connects each decision service
to model even the most sophisticated rules - with no with a single relational database
programming. · Seamless connection to relational data
· Smart mapping technology
· Sophisticated, intuitive rule modeling
· Generates optimized SQL
· Advanced analysis tools for decision logic validation
· Smart Retrieve and Query
· Comprehensive scenario-based model testing
· Look-up table integration
· Template-based reporting for documentation and audit
· Real time and batch execution
3. utomating Business Rules
Corticon EDC-Multi-Source concurrently connects to multiple CORTICON DIALOGS
relational and non-relational data sources, delivering state-
Corticon Dialogs is a web-based platform that enables
of-the-art, model-driven, enterprise-wide data integration.
business users to create, deploy, and maintain intelligent
· Unified view of enterprise data web-based forms without programming. Dialogs combines
· Model-driven data mapping
the ease of use of a forms template with the power of the
· Graphical modeling tools
· Comprehensive administrative control
Corticon Business Rules platform, providing the agility to
create complex end-user interactions in days instead of
weeks or months.
CORTICON BUSINESS RULES COLLABORATOR
Using Dialogs Designer, a business analyst can model
Corticon Business Rules Collaborator is a multi-user
questions, define pages and complete form sets for use
environment to manage business rules projects throughout
on the web. And because Corticon Dialogs comes pre-
their development and maintenance lifecycle.
integrated with the Corticon BRMS, that same business
It helps teams manage and maintain control over all aspects
analyst can define simple or sophisticated rules to control
of the rule discovery, modeling and deployment process.
what questions and information are presented, based on
· Access control and security responses received.
· Version and revision management
· Project workflow and approval management
· Search and change management
· Team collaboration - distributed web-based architecture
Dialogs web-based Designer is business user-
friendly
The result is a reflexive, intelligent interaction that engages
the end user. Corticon Dialogs can be employed in broad
variety of industries and applications, including:
Corticon Business Rules Collaborator: manage and coordinate
business rules projects
· Web-based sales of complex products - web-enabling
sales for individual health insurance, lending, and
build-to-order manufacturing
CORTICON BUSINESS RULES MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION · Call center guidance and automation - delivering best
As a powerful enabling technology, Corticon BRMS is often practices as self-service applications or applications to
used to enhance and extend other enterprise systems. To guide call center agents
this end, many of our partners and customers use Corticon · Knowledge worker enablement – automating best
Business Rules Management Foundation to embed our practices across the organization
capabilities into their solutions. We have built our product
suite on top of Foundation, and you can also use it to
integrate business rules into your native user interfaces.
· Rich library of rule modeling functions
· Support for any UI framework
· Support for multiple UI metaphors
· ‘Pluggable persistence’
Dialogs’ infuses intelligence into web
interactions
