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a non-commercial peer group of IT professionals
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Business Rules Buzz
Wonder where the basic inspirations of the Business Rules Approach came from?  Welcome to our site!  Our focus ... ideas and standards for Business Rules, for over nineteen years.

The Business Rules Approach
"Rules are a first-class citizen of the requirements world." "Rules build on facts, and facts build on concepts as expressed by terms."  learn more...

Semantics of Business Vocabulary & Business Rules (SBVR)
Since August 2003, the BRG has devoted a lot of its R&D effort as a member of the Business Rules Team (a multi-national consortium formed expressly to respond to the OMG's "Business Semantics of Business Rules" RFP) and then as a member of the SBVR Finalization Task Force.  The product of that work -- "Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules" (SBVR) -- is now an OMG standard.  learn more...

The 11th International Business Rules Forum (2008)
Founded in 1997, the International Business Rules Forum is the conference of record for the business rules industry and organizations that use and develop enterprise decisioning tools and services.   This year's Forum, with its co-located conferences — the Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) Summit and the Rules Technology Summit — will be the world's largest single event focused exclusively on successfully using rules technology to build agile applications and high value-add business applications.  Planning for this year's Forum is well underway.  Take a sneak peak at some of the early highlights that are coming together for the Oct. 26-30 event in Orlando, Florida.  learn more...

European Business Rules Conference (2009)
Europe's only industry-wide conference on Business Rules is held in June (specific dates and location for 2009 to be announced).  Continuing the well-received format of previous years, presentations of the main conference are organized in three parallel tracks:  Experience, Know-how, and State of the Art.  Plus, on the day before the main Conference sessions, there will be tutorials on special topics by Business Rule experts.  Co-located with the conference is an exhibition of Europe's leading Business Rules tool vendors and service providers, several of whom are presenting case studies at the conference.  stay tuned, as plans evolve...


 
Business Rules Manifesto

    The fundamental principles of the Business Rules Approach, short and concise ...
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Business Motivation Model

    Business Governance in a Volatile World, the basis for the OMG standard ...
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Our Classic Business Rules Paper

    The seminal 1995 Report, with the first authoritative definition of 'Business Rule' ...
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