Would you like to know more about how business rules can make your applications more responsive to your business need? Red Hat's business rules product is based on Drools, the world's most popular open source Rules Engine, and in this webinar Red Hat experts will take you through the following topics: - Jeremy Brown will present what are business rules and what is possible? - Keith Lynch will present how companies like RSA Insurance have been able to make their applications more immediate, more aware and more pervasive. - A demo of the latest innovations in Red Hat's newest version of it's BRMS product straight from the engineers - Alexandre Porcelli will demonstrate the new and improved GUI that greatly simplifies the creation of business rules. - Geoffrey De Smet will demonstrate Optaplanner a new planning engine that can produce optimised results for complex problems such scheduling and other n(p) complete problems.

1. 'Play by the Rules'
JBoss Architect Meetup
Jeremy Brown, Keith Lynch, Alexandre Porcelli, Geoffrey de Smet
Red Hat
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2. Agenda
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JBoss Value Proposition
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BRMS Technology Overview
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What are Business Rules?
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What is Complex Event Processing (CEP)?
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RSA BRMS Usage
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A Sneak Peak of JBoss BRMS 6.0
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New GUI
OptaPlanner

3. The JBoss Value Proposition
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4. JBoss Community & JBoss Enterprise
Targeting Different Use Cases & Deployment Stages
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Community for developing open source middleware
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Integrates multiple projects into a single distribution
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Embrace “release early, release often” model
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Target production deployments, business-critical reliability
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Multiple projects with different release schedules, dependencies,
versions, etc.
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Offers long-term stability & application compatibility
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Includes enterprise support for mission critical
applications
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Development focuses on current release (e.g. no patches, etc.)
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Support via public forums, wikis, public issue trackers, etc.
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Ideally suited for long-term enterprise production use
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Great for initial development, PoC's, small rules projects
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“Caveat Emptor” for production deployment
Includes Red Hat's Open Software Assurance for IP
protection
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5. JBoss BRMS Product Delivery Process
Both major and minor releases follow a rigorous, phased product delivery methodology.
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6. What are Business Rules?
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7. Example
INSURANCE COMPANY
Insurance
Claim
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8. Example
INSURANCE COMPANY
Insurance
Claim
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Problems:
1. Business rules are hidden
in applications

9. Example
INSURANCE COMPANY
Problems:
1. Business rules are hidden
in applications
2. It takes too long to
change business rules
Insurance
Claim
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10. Example
INSURANCE COMPANY
Problems:
1. Business rules are hidden
in applications
2. It takes too long to
change business rules
Insurance
Claim
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3. People interpret rules
inconsistently

11. The BRMS Solution
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12. The BRMS Solution
1. Separate the business rules
from the applications
Rule
Repository
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13. The BRMS Solution
AHA!
Rule
Repository
1. Separate the business rules
from the applications
2. Express rules in terms that the
business can readily understand
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14. The BRMS Solution
AHA!
Rule
Repository
1. Separate the business rules
from the applications
2. Express rules in terms that the
business can readily understand
3. Empower business and IT experts
to collaborate
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15. The BRMS Solution
AHA!
Rule
Repository
1. Separate the business rules
from the applications
2. Express rules in terms that the
business can readily understand
3. Empower business and IT experts
to collaborate
4. Support all the rules
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16. BRMS Components
Authoring Tools
for Business
Users
Repository
Business
Analysts
Facts
Business
Rule
Definitions
Authoring Tools
for Developers
Developers
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Decision
Service
Enterprise
Applications
Decisions
Business
Data

17. What is Complex Event
Processing (CEP)?
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18. Example: Multiple Customer Touch Points
Problems:
Hard to derive business relevant
data from available information
Important patterns go undetected
Business fails to respond to
changes in its environment
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19. Complex Event Processing
Detect events of significance to a business by recognizing time-based patterns in
one or more real-time data feeds...
Benefits:
Business Rules
‘Active decision making’:
Business makes timely
decisions & responds
quickly to external events
“Weather delay in London”
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20. RSA BRMS Usage
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21. Business Challenge
Dealing with strict change control systems
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Hyper competitive market made harder with
aggregators
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Need the ability to respond in a timely fashion
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22. Solution
Rules designed around the eBusiness team
requirements
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Rules are in the hands of the team and are
updated modified with the help of an existing
change control system for website changes
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Based on excel decision tables
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23. Benefits
Respond quicker to changing market condidtions
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Integrated into an existing AIX + ESB solution
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Empowered the business to be in control of key
levers
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24. A Sneak Peak of JBoss
BRMS 6.0
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25. What are we announcing?
Combining the strengths of Polymita and JBoss BRMS
Rules
Process
Events
JBoss BPM Suite 6.0
Polymita BPMS
JBoss BRMS 6.0
JBoss BRMS 5.3
Rules
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Process
Events
JBoss BRMS 6.0
Rules
Events

26. New in 6.0
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27. JBoss BRMS 6 – Key Features
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Business Rules
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Drools v6 – high performance inference engine
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Complex Event Processing
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OptaPlanner technology preview
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New Tools for business and IT users
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28. BRMS 6.0 Demonstration
Alexandre Porcelli
JBoss Engineering
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55. JBoss BRMS 6
OptaPlanner
Technology Preview
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89. Cautions
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Remember OptaPlanner will be a Technology Preview
only in BRMS 6.0
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Unsupported for production, play with it in development
Full support planned for BRMS 6.1

90. Top 4 “Take Aways”
Automate business decisions
with BRMS
AHA!
Accelerate application development
with BRMS
HYBRID CLOUD
PRIVATE
CLOUD
Empower business users
with BRMS
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PUBLIC
CLOUD
Transition to the Cloud
with BRMS