Today’s evolving business environment is driven by change. These changes are often fuelled by conflicting business drivers such as the need for increased business agility required to maintain profitability in increasingly competitive markets, and more business process visibility for regulatory compliance. These new requirements need to be addressed in IT budgets optimization process. These are the factors that drove the emergence and rapid growth of new information technology paradigms such as business rules management (BRM). In this context, Query and Business Rules Integration becomes a key agent of these changes.

Technical Description

Extracting, transforming and using information in a meaningful way through heterogeneous integration is a challenging task. Information extractions and entry points must be defined while preserving data integrity requirements.

The following explains how to enable quick integration between Business Objects query technology and ILOG Business Rule Engines through a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It uses semantic mapping to leverage Business Objects universes seamlessly within Business Rules definitions. Characteristics are exposed through a technical white paper that presents an overview and the concepts behind queries and Business Rules integration.

End users have to be shielded from the data mapping process and the implementation needs to be easy. Both, Business Objects Query technology and ILOG Business Rules engine are able to interact in an SOA environment and make the implementation possible.

Besides the architecture and metadata integrity challenges, enabling a wide use of such capabilities inside an organization requires to consider the usage and deployment complexity. The white paper addresses the question through the concept of web services orchestration.

In addition to the white paper, the package available hereafter contains a sample source code used in the technical part of the white paper.

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