Business Rules Management and Service Oriented Architecture

Business rules management system (BRMS) is a software tools that work alongside enterprise IT applications. It enables enterprises to automate decision-making processes typically consisting of separate business rules authoring and rules execution applications.

This proposed title brings together the following key ideas in modern enterprise system development best practice.

• The need for service-oriented architecture (SOA).
  
  
• How the former depends on component-based development (CBD).
  
  
• Database-centred approaches to business rules (inc. GUIDES).
  
  
• Knowledge-based approaches to business rules.
  
  
• Using patterns to design and develop business rules management systems