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Business Rule Concepts
Getting to the Point of Knowledge
(Second Edition)

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Paperback
Handbook: 134 pages.
Publisher: Business Rule Solutions, LLC (September 2005)
ISBN: 0-941049-06-X

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$39.95

Read Mark Myers (Northern California Power Agency) review of Ronald G. Ross' latest book Business Rule Concepts: Getting To The Point Of Knowledge (Second Edition), the second edition to his 1998 ground-breaking breaking handbook on the Business Rule Concepts.



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About Business Rule Concepts (Second Edition)


What is a business rule?
What is the business rule approach?
In this Second Edition of his popular handbook, first published in 1998, Mr. Ross brings you up-to-date on these and related questions.

Compliance. Requirements. Adaptability. Knowledge.
Find out about practical solutions for these and other urgent business challenges. In readable, get-to-the-point style, this book gives you a fast-paced, up-to-the-minute inspection tour of the breakthrough ideas and innovations that have the industry abuzz.

Contents

Introduction

  • The Business Rule Vision

  • A New View of Business Systems

Part 1: Key Concepts of the Business Rule Approach

    Part 1 is aimed toward the general reader seeking to understand the basic ideas of the business rule approach.

    Chapter 1. What You Need to Know About Terms and Facts

    • Business vocabulary

    • Improving business communication

    • Fact models and what they represent


    Chapter 2. What You Need to Know about Rules

    • A central role for rules

    • Rules for guidance and control

    • The inner workings of rules


    Chapter 3. What the Business Manager Needs to Know

    • Lessons of legacies

    • Implications of the business rule approach for business

    • Real-time knowledge delivery


Part 2: Concepts of the Business Rule Approach for the Practitioner

    Part 2 is aimed toward the practitioner seeking more complete understanding of the business rule approach.

    Chapter 4. A Closer Look at Fact Models

    • Forming definitions

    • Forming fact types

    • Advanced vocabulary representation


    Chapter 5. A Closer Look at Rules

    • What is a business rule?

    • People rules vs. knowledge rules

    • Rules in information/knowledge systems


    Chapter 6. A Closer Look at Work and Processes

    • How rules relate to business processes

    • How rules relate to system processes

    • The 'big picture' of business systems in the business rule approach


Business Rules Manifesto

    The Principles of Rule Independence


Glossary

References

Index



About the Author
Ronald G. Ross

Recognized worldwide as the "father of business rules," Ronald G. Ross is a Principal of Business Rule Solutions, LLC. In addition to consulting, teaching, and speaking internationally, he serves as Executive Editor of BRCommunity. He is Co-Chair of the Business Rules Forum and works actively on standards. His 30+ year career has produced eight outstanding books, including the industry's first on business rules in 1994.



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