Glossary

action

action column

The action part of a decision table.

action part of a rule

BRMS

business term

A generic name for anything that appears in the completion menu of the Rule Editor that is not an operator or value. A business term may be embedded in a phrase.

business policy

The statements that define how an organization conducts its business. A business policy can define internal operations, a marketing strategy, a competitive strategy, and internal and external regulations.

business rule

A statement that models part of a business policy, is specified unambiguously, and can be implemented in a computer system.

business rule management

The practices that control and manage business rules through their lifecycle. Every company manages policies, and they implement policies in application code. Business rule management is a way of improving this process. Business rule management is not necessarily automated and does not imply technology. Usually an organization has informal business rule management practices.

check in

check out

The process of locking a RuleDoc file to ensure that others cannot make changes to the document while you're editing it. Other users will not see your changes until you check the file back in.

condition

condition column

The condition part of a decision table.

condition part of a rule

The part of a rule in which conditions are defined.

decision table

A set of business rules with similar conditions and actions represented as a table. Columns represent generalized forms of the conditions and actions. Rows contain specific values for each generalized condition and action. Each row represents a rule.

definition part of a rule

A part of the rule which enables you to explicitly define variables that can be used in the rest of the rule. The definition part of the rule can also restrict the variable by applying a test to its definition.

deploy

The term used to describe how the rules stored in RuleDocs inside a rule repository are sent to the end-user applications. Deploying is normally done by the IT staff in ILOG Rule Studio for .NET, but it can also be performed directly using ILOG Rule Team Server for SharePoint.

else part of a rule

history

For each of the previous edits of a document, lets you see who performed the edit, the date and time the edit took place, if any user was assigned the document, and any comments for that edit.

operator

A building block that lets you compare or establish relationships between the different parts of rule statements.

partition

A group of cells in a decision table that are in the same condition column and have a common cell immediately to the left.

policy manager

A business user who uses Microsoft Office or Web tools to define and/or enforce business policy. The policy manager is responsible for writing and maintaining business rules.

preconditions

A group of rule statements in which you define global variables for a decision table and conditions that must be met before any rows in the decision table can be executed.

priority

A property that determines the order in which rules are executed in an application.

rule package

A logical way of organizing rule files so that each rule can be uniquely identified.

rule

RuleDoc

A document containing one or more rules. RuleDocs are either Word 2007 documents or Excel 2007 worksheets.

ruleflow

A way to control and order the execution of rule artifacts. You define a ruleflow in terms of tasks.

Rule Property Editor

An editor that lets you modify the properties of rules, such as name, priority, and so on.

versioning

Document versioning allows you to keep multiple versions of a document. If a change needs to be reversed, you can restore the previous version and continue working.

vocabulary

A collection of terms and phrases specific to your business domain that you can use when writing business rules.