ILOG Rule Solutions for Office System 3.0 provides a new generation of Microsoft Word and Excel integration, making business rule editing as natural as writing a document and decision table editing as rich as it is in the development environment. ILOG Rule Solutions for Office fosters smooth collaboration between non-technical and technical business teams, and ILOG Rule Team Server for SharePoint allows non-technical business users to take advantage of the latest Microsoft SharePoint document management features and to deploy rulesets directly from Microsoft SharePoint after updating rule documents.

The new generation of rule solutions for Microsoft Office
Based on the new OpenXML technology available in Microsoft Office 2007, ILOG Rule Solutions for Office not only facilitates fluid business-rule editing in Microsoft Word, it provides complete flexibility for editing decision tables in Microsoft Excel.

Editing business rules in Microsoft Word:

• Edit business rules directly in a Word document and take advantage of auto-completion for vocabulary terms and valid syntax suggestions
• Incorporate rule properties directly into your document for a more complete and meaningful presentation, or maintain them in the RuleDoc pane
• Add complementary content to your business rules to help others understand the full context
• View the full vocabulary available and search it for the terms you need.
• Get assistance with error correction

Editing decision tables in Microsoft Excel:

• Edit table data quickly, easily and intuitively
• Check for gaps and overlaps in table data
• Add or remove rows and columns as needed
• Maintain properties for the table and its contents
• Add preconditions that set the scope for the table

Key benefits:

• Business analysts collaborate with developers working on a common set of rules, but in their own environment.
• The Intellirule editor helps business analysts efficiently edit complete and correct business rules
• Business analysts can easily communicate policy implementation to a broad range of non-technical business users by organizing rule documents as needed, and by providing additional explanatory text and graphics.
• Business analysts can be more productive when authoring rules by using "Copy and Paste" and pre-written rule fragments to create new rules similar to existing rules, or by following common patterns.