Progress Corticon delivers the agility needed to move quickly and stay compliant, while serving the ever-changing needs of businesses. Progress Corticon separates business rules from code, so both IT and business people can quickly create or modify rules using an intuitive interface. In collaboration with IT, business analysts can identify and deploy automated business rules, freeing IT to focus on innovation.

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CORTICON Business Rule Management System

2. Agenda
1. Introduction to Business Rules Management
 What is Business Rule Management?
 Traditional vs Modern Approach
 BRMS CAN DOs and CANNOT DOs
2. Corticon BRMS
 Model Driven Development
 Guaranteed Rules Integrity
 DeTi Engine Advantage
3. Corticon Demonstration
 Sky Diver
 Retail
4. Corticon Use Cases
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3. What is Business Rules Management?
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Software to help make
the Right Decision at the Right Time
with Business Agility
Should we
pay this
claim?
What
discount to
provide?
What
route a
ship/truck
to take?
What
should be
order
priority?

4. What is Business Rules Management?
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Decisions are governed by business rules
DECISION
Should we pay
this claim?
RULE
Reject claims with
invalid billing codes
BRMS – Business Rules Management Systems
(a.k.a. rule engines) externalize decision logic from applications and represent as business rules
Rule
Rule
Rule
Rule
Rule
Mission Critical Application
BRMS

5. Traditional Vs Modern Approach
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Business
Process
Management
Business
Rules
Management
Mission Critical
Application
Traditional ApproachModern Approach

6. Business Rule Intensive Applications and Situations
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Credit and Loan Approvals
Underwriting
Eligibility Determination
Compliance and Reporting
Account Setup and Validation
Applying for products
Dynamic Pricing and Bundling
Cross-sell and Up-sell
Product Recommendation
Lead Generation Routing
Customer Insight and Loyalty Programs

7. Some BRMS Uses
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8. Traditional Vs BRMS Change Cycle
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9. BRMS Includes
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 Repository - allowing
decision logic to be
externalized from core
application code
 Tools - allowing both
technical developers and
business experts to define
and manage decision logic
 Runtime Environment-
allowing applications to
invoke decision logic
managed within the BRMS
and execute it using a
business rules engine

10. BRMS CANs and CANNOTs
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CANs
 Reduce reliance on IT
 Reduce time to market
 Increase control over decision
logic
 Increase precision in
expressing decision logic
 Increase decision automation
CANNOTs
 Not an ERP software
 Not an Insurance or
healthcare or banking
application
 Not a transaction
processing system
 Replace your mission
critical application

11. Agenda
1. Introduction to Business Rules Management
 What is Business Rule Management?
 Traditional Vs Modern Approach
 BRMS CAN DOs and CANNOT DOs
2. Corticon BRMS
 Model Driven Development
 Guaranteed Rules Integrity
 DeTi Engine Advantage
3. Corticon Demonstration
 Sky Diver
 Retail
4. Corticon Use Cases
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12. Corticon BRMS
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Corticon is a Business Rule Management System that
is designed to automate decision management
through use of a patented rules engine that does not
require coding.

13. What The Analyst Are Saying?
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Corticon positioned as Leading Innovator
in Gartner Magic Quadrant.

14. Model-Driven Rules Development
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15. Guaranteed Rules Integrity
• Debugging rules is a major issue with traditional rule
development
• Corticon identifies logical errors during requirements
specification
Most Errors
Introduced
Most Errors
Detected
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Most Errors
Detected by
Corticon

16. Corticon Difference – Engine Performance
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1. Traditional pattern matching algorithm is Rete
 Scales well with increasing number of rules
 Degrades exponentially with increasing complexity of data – the “Rete
Wall”
2. Corticon’s patented DeTI (Design Time) algorithm
 Scales linearly with number of rules and complexity of data

17. Business Value
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Business Benefits:
 Reduced Time to Market
 Increased Rule Integrity
 Increased Agility
IT Benefits:
 Separate Decisions from Processes – Reduce Development/Change Cycle
 Easy to use, deploy and manage
 Reduced Logical Defects/Bugs
 Improved productivity
 Mitigate Risk
 Optimize Operations
 Increased Scalability

18. Agenda
1. Introduction to Business Rules Management
 What is Business Rule Management?
 Traditional Vs Modern Approach
 BRMS CAN DOs and CANNOT DOs
2. Corticon BRMS
 Model Driven Development
 Guaranteed Rules Integrity
 DeTi Engine Advantage
3. Corticon Demonstration
 Sky Diver
 Retail
4. Corticon Use Cases
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19. Corticon Studio Demonstration
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1. Identify the Business Decision
Ask: What decision is being made?
2. Identify the Business Rules
Ask: How do you make the decision?
3. Model the Business Rules
Use: Corticon Studio
What is the
applicant’s risk
profile?
Validate
Information
Determine
Risk Profile
Calculate
Premium
Route for Approval
New Life
Insurance
applicant
SAMPLE RULES
 Applicants who skydive have a High Risk rating
 Applicants under 35 have a Low Risk rating

20. Business Requirement
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Skydivers Risk Rating:
Business Rule Output
Applicant who
Skydive
High Risk Rating
Applicant under 35 Low Risk Rating

21. Agenda
1. Introduction to Business Rules Management
 What is Business Rule Management?
 Traditional Vs Modern Approach
 BRMS CAN DOs and CANNOT DOs
2. Corticon BRMS
 Model Driven Development
 Guaranteed Rules Integrity
 DeTi Engine Advantage
3. Corticon Demonstration
 Sky Diver
 Retail
4. Corticon Use Cases
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Progress Corticon: 500+ Customers Globally
INSURANCE
FINANCIAL
SERVICES
FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT
HEALTH &
HUMAN SERVICES
eCOMMERCE & Retail
State Department
DIA
OPM
FBI

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Progress Customers

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Customer Success Stories
CHALLENGE:
eBay rapidly evaluates 150 –
200 million transactions per
day, with thousands of
business rules for each
transaction. These rules relate
to numerous complex
variables, including: product
category, seller reputation,
geographical location of both
seller and buyer, regional legal
regulations, transaction
amounts and currencies
SOLUTION:
Use Progress Corticon BRMS to
determine whether to hold
escrow from sellers, and when to
release funds
BENEFIT:
 40M+ automated decisions
per day
 Ability to change rules that
drive automated decisions in
minutes
 More trusted marketplace
drives top line

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Current Case Study – Ecommerce Vendor ‘Q’
Challenge :
- 10 levels of commission /
remuneration scheme
- Increased number of
members / products result in
computation of payment in
almost 30 hours
- Product cataloguing is also
fast becoming a nightmare

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Current Case Study – Insurance Broker ‘T’
Challenge :
-Modifying policies
-Latency
-Costly
-Frustrating!!
-Rely on programmers /
coders.

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