Services | Business Rule (Decision) Modeling and Automation

Central to my Metis approach to application technical design is the assertion that business information systems are essentially composed of three basic kinds of things: business entities, processes, and rules.

• Entities represent the nouns — the persons, places, and things that these systems are intended to manage.
• Processes are the verbs — the actions that operate on and orchestrate the interactions of these entities.
• Rules (or “decisions”) are the logic and conditions that inform and constrain these processes.

Modular, reusable, self-documenting, executable business rule or “decision” models can be created and maintained using the global Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard, i.e. these models are not just pictures of business rules/decisions; they are the business decisions.  Behind the scenes, the modeling tools automatically create executable XML code as the process steps are established and refined.

Non-technical stakeholders find these diagrams easy to understand (and with some training even to maintain) for business decisions, making them perfect for collaborative decision design and for establishing a shared, graphical understanding of business rules between business owners and technical teams.

Let’s identify and model your organization’s key business rules/decisions positioning you for better collaboration between non-technical stakeholders and technology teams, business decision automation, and business agility!