Appway Business Rule Engine|Appway

The Appway Business Rule Engine is part of the Appway Software Platform, a comprehensive BPM software package that puts process control in the hands of your project teams, and turns technology into a solution that can help drive your success.

The Business Rules Engine is based on four fundamental premises which guide our product development.

Business rules are a corporate asset
Policy-based business rules must be automated
The hardest part about automating business rules is getting them right
Industry professionals know their business rules best and should be empowered to manage them

Overview

Appway Business Rules Engine is an on-board rule management system that helps our customers define and manage business rules. The graphic tool set, designed specifically for managers and business analysts, makes it easy to create and manage rules and rule sets. Use the graphic tools, or use one of several assistants which guide you through the process of creating rules. The business rules engine runs as a service component within the Appway software architecture. All business rules are managed and created by business people with an easy to use web based interface.

Running in your Browser!

The 100% web based interface allows authorized business analysts to access all rules anywhere, anytime. The rules manager provides an easy to understand view on the various rules and rule sets.

Create, Organize, Find

The built in filter function lets analysts filter large rule set in order to find specific rules quickly.

To organize the complexity of day to day business, Appway Business Rules are managed in sets.

Business Rules can be added to different sets. This allows flexible selection of Business Rules when working on runtime data, and helps to maintain the rules in a meaningful context.

Efficient Rule Execution

Our rule engine operates on the same data as Workflows, Screenflows and all other Appway modules. There is no need for duplicating information, no waste of memory when executing rules.

Visual Editing

The Rules Designer is a component allowing users to assemble rules in a visual way

Using drag & drop gestures, rules can be clicked together easily and quickly.

Conditions and Actions

Appway uses condition-action (CA) business rules. A CA business rule consists of a condition part (the antecedence) and an action part (the consequence). Appway's rule engine supports forward-chaining (procedural logic) which allows for very efficient handling of CA rules.

Actions can do anything. They can produce PDF Output or Screens. They can be used to show or hide Screen sections. In PDF Outputs or Dynamic Documents, Rules can be used to construct complex output statements such as full addresses. In Workflows, rules can be used to select a participant to forward a work item to, or to calculate the set of PDF documents to generate for a certain business activity such as account opening documentation.

Script actions give access to many more interesting features: send email or SMS, communicate with your VoIP gateway, start a new workflow instance, import or export runtime data.

In addition to Business Rules, Appway supports inline rules in the form of boolean expressions. These are used to evaluate values controlling the display logic, process flow or gateway rules.