Enterprises are struggling with the accelerated change of their environment which requires the capability to rapidly adapt processes.Developments such as digitalization or the social and legal environment lead to new data requirements that have dramatic impact on the data management of organizations (lot-size 1, shareconomy, globalization, "regulation crisis") Business rules management provides the ability to meet fastly new business requirements that emerge e.g. from new or changing regulatory and compliance requirements.
The idea of a global set of rules that are applicable for different companies is the basic idea behind the presented approach. As regulatory and compliance requirements usually do not apply to one single company but to one or more whole industry sectors, an approach for interchanging and sharing business rules can save effort significantly. A central business rules repository avoids redundant effort across companies for capturing business policies and implementing derived business rules. Global rule sets can be interchanged between the central repository and affected companies. Moreover, a central rules engine that can be invoked by the information systems of single companies can additionally save IT costs due to the elimination of necessary implementation activities.