Home - BR - Definitions http://billbreitmayer.com/home/taxonomy/term/21/0 Business Rules - definitions and standards en Link - Universal Business Language ( UBL ) http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/159 <p>OASIS Universal Business Language standard. Not a far reaching standard, but probably more useful for small, resource-starved development projects.</p> <p> From the standards document:</p> <blockquote><p>... The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) is intended to help solve these problems by defining a generic XML interchange format for business documents that can be extended to meet the requirements of particular industries. Specifically, UBL 1.0 provides the following:</p> <p><a href="http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/159">read more</a></p> http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/159#comments BR - Definitions Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:43:28 -0600 billb 159 at http://billbreitmayer.com/home Links - OMG Model Driven Architecture for Business Rules http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/90 <p><em>Updated Sept 17 2008: new links </em> <p>One of the great contributions to the world of business rules in the last decade is the <a href="http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?br/2003-6-3">OMG Model Driven Architecture for Business Rules</a>. The OMG link will take you to a page listing several formats for the article. I suggest using the PDF format for <a href="http://www.omg.org/docs/br/03-06-03.pdf">Business Semantics of Business Rules</a>, it&#39;s about 240K. They also have MS Word and RTF formats. </p> <p><a href="http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/90">read more</a></p> http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/90#comments BR - Definitions XML-Based Technologies Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:43:07 -0600 billb 90 at http://billbreitmayer.com/home More Definitions from Haley http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/89 <p><P>Some more <A href="http://www.haley.com/0989835410053122/helpcenter/brms_terminology.html#BusinessRulesManagement" mce_href="http://www.haley.com/0989835410053122/helpcenter/brms_terminology.html#BusinessRulesManagement">definitions</A> from Haley. [  Note: Haley has a new set of definitions, not not those on this page.  I like the old set of definitions much more than the new ones ].</P><P>I left in Haley's product blurbs because I think they are largely true - their list of features can be used like a checklist for evaluating other rule engines.   Haley </p> <p><a href="http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/89">read more</a></p> BR - Definitions Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:11:49 -0600 billb 89 at http://billbreitmayer.com/home A Definition of Business Models http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/84 <p>From a Wikipedia discussion about Osterwalder, Pigneur and Tucci&#39;s definition of the term <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_model">business model</a> (sightly reformatted to make the nine &quot;building blocks&quot; more visible ): </p> <p><a href="http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/84">read more</a></p> BR - Definitions Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:15:33 -0600 billb 84 at http://billbreitmayer.com/home The Business Rules Manifesto http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/36 <p>The most classic and complete definition of business rules from the <a href="http://www.businessrulesgroup.org/brmanifesto.htm">Business Rules Group</a> ( blockquoted in toto, all rights gratefully acknowledged ).</p> <blockquote><h4>Article 1. Primary Requirements, Not Secondary</h4> <p>1.1. Rules are a first-class citizen of the requirements world.<br />1.2. Rules are essential for, and a discrete part of, business models and technology models.</p> <p><a href="http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/36">read more</a></p> BR - Definitions Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:22:41 -0600 billb 36 at http://billbreitmayer.com/home A Tentative Definition of Rules for a Semantic Web http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/26 <p>Note first that there is a big difference between The Semantic Web to A Semantic Web. In this version of the Semantic Web, knowledge shared by individuals. A web would be owned by its participants or subscribers rather the general public, something to be actively joined, perhaps more like the basic model of a Wiki than an openly accessible public site. </p> <p><a href="http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/26">read more</a></p> BR - Definitions Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:20:04 -0700 billb 26 at http://billbreitmayer.com/home Haley's Definitions of Business Rules http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/25 <h4>The Process View </h4> <p>Haley has an interesting take on the definition of business rule.</p> <p>Business rule :is a statement that defines or constrains some aspect of the business. A business rule asserts business structure to control or influence the behavior of the business, i.e. a process or procedure.</p> <p><a href="http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/25">read more</a></p> http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/25#comments BR - Definitions Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:11:02 -0700 billb 25 at http://billbreitmayer.com/home Wikipedia's Definition of Business Rules http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/24 <p>That invaluable tool, the Wikipedia, has the cleanest and concise definition of the term &#39;business rule&#39; I&#39;ve encountered. The Wikipedia defines <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_rules" title="Wikipedia's definition of business rule">business rule</a> as:</p> <p><a href="http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/24">read more</a></p> http://billbreitmayer.com/home/node/24#comments BR - Definitions Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:55:25 -0700 billb 24 at http://billbreitmayer.com/home