http://blogs.gartner.com/dave_mccoy/2008/09/17/business-rule-management-standards-and-specifications/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:57:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://blogs.gartner.com/dave_mccoy/2008/09/17/business-rule-management-standards-and-specifications/comment-page-1/#comment-478 Carlos Serrano-Morales Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:36:18 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/dave_mccoy/?p=75#comment-478 Well, the lack of comments so far may be indicative of what matters and what does not... The more mature standards are not relevant beyond the marketing check-list and are rarely, if ever, exercised (JSR-94 support for example). There is a large set of other standardization efforts going on, but they do seem to suffer from a lack of relevance to real business drivers. Some of these standards are striving to solve semantic issues (important, but, regardless of how we feel about their ultimate relevance, remote for most of the immediate market), or representation issues (and in that case, they tend to be single approach which does not seem to offer a huge compelling value to the market). But a large part of the value around business rules does not come from the BRE and its rule representation power. It comes from the BRMS story: the management part. What value does a standard really bring if it misses the major value brought by the approach? Carole-Ann touches on that in her blog on the BRF vendor panel discussion (http://edmblog.com) and some of the comments in there) It would be great to read what your view is. Well, the lack of comments so far may be indicative of what matters and what does not…
The more mature standards are not relevant beyond the marketing check-list and are rarely, if ever, exercised (JSR-94 support for example).
There is a large set of other standardization efforts going on, but they do seem to suffer from a lack of relevance to real business drivers. Some of these standards are striving to solve semantic issues (important, but, regardless of how we feel about their ultimate relevance, remote for most of the immediate market), or representation issues (and in that case, they tend to be single approach which does not seem to offer a huge compelling value to the market).
But a large part of the value around business rules does not come from the BRE and its rule representation power. It comes from the BRMS story: the management part.
What value does a standard really bring if it misses the major value brought by the approach?
Carole-Ann touches on that in her blog on the BRF vendor panel discussion (http://edmblog.com) and some of the comments in there)
It would be great to read what your view is.

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