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Haley Wins in Comparison Study of BRMS Solutions
Extensive Business Rules Management System Evaluation By UK Consultancy TriReme Gives HaleyAuthority Highest Overall Rating
Pittsburgh, PA - May 9, 2005 - Haley Systems, Inc., the technology leader in business rules management systems, today announced that HaleyAuthority was identified as the "best solution for organizations that wish to use business analysts and users in rule creation and maintenance" in a newly released report by UK-based software development consultancy TriReme International. In the report, "Service Oriented Business Rules Management Systems," HaleyAuthority scored highest in a comprehensive multi-attribute analysis of the major business rules management systems (BRMS) solutions.
The TriReme report examines the features of a BRMS and the business needs that are driving adoption of business rules technology. It also includes a detailed evaluation of the key technical features of a BRMS and a hands-on comparison of products by three different BRMS vendor product lines, including those from Haley, ILOG and Fair Isaac. The analysis focuses on the business benefits that potential users may obtain from a BRMS and examines the attributes that result in ease of use for business analysts and users, specifically including: ease of understanding; support for rule creation and maintenance without requiring programming expertise; and ease of use and expression of rules.
The TriReme report's comparative analysis, which scored the three BRMSs on a set of 68 key attributes, gave HaleyAuthority the highest rating with 84% of the maximum score possible. Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor came in second at 70% and ILOG's JRules scored third at 66%. A copy of the 70-page report is available for download at www.haley.com.
"Businesses continue to strive for shorter time to market and to lower the cost of developing and maintaining computer applications to support their operations," noted the report's author Ian Graham, TriReme's Chief Technical Officer and Principal Consultant and an authority on object-modeling, user interface design and knowledge based systems. "Business rules management systems can play an important role in this."
The report states that "HaleyAuthority is significantly different from all competitors. The system can really understand natural language expressions, as opposed to pseudo-English in place of pseudo-code. It is especially easy to use when making changes to the rules once the knowledge base has been built." It also indicated that "Haley's footprints for the rules repository and rules engine are small and enable the system to be deployed on a wide range of platforms including, for example, Palm Pilots and Windows CE devices."
"We concluded that HaleyAuthority will fit well into development environments where business experts or non-technical business analysts need to create, maintain, or test the business rules that reflect evolving business policy. This is absolutely necessary when policies change rapidly and time-to-market may not be sacrificed to the application backlog," cites Ian Graham. "We were most impressed by HaleyAuthority's genuine natural language syntax for rules and its totally transparent code generation. It also scores well in terms of price, performance and memory utilization."
"From new product proliferation to regulatory compliance, today's IT organizations are seriously challenged to more closely align their infrastructures and procedures to respond to business needs faster and with greater flexibility," said Mark Juliano, president and CEO of Haley Systems, Inc. "As underscored in the TriReme report, HaleyAuthority's natural language understanding uniquely enables non-technical business users to create, maintain and test business rules that reflect evolving business policy using free-form English. As a result, business users gain greater control and avoid programming backlogs to make changes happen faster."
About TriReme International: TriReme International is the leading specialist consultancy in Europe on IT systems modeling and architecture. Founded in 1994 by Alan Cameron Wills, co-author of the Catalysis™ method of Service Oriented and Component-Based Design, Trireme has since provided consulting, mentoring and training services to an impressive list of clients.
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TriReme's consultants are all experts in their respective fields with a minimum of ten years practical IT experience. TriReme has recently published a comprehensive report on Service Oriented Business Rules Management Systems, authored by Ian Graham. Ian is Chief Technology Officer and Principal Consultant with TriReme International.
Ian is an industry consultant with over 20 years experience: a practitioner in IT for over 25 years. He is internationally recognized as an authority on business modeling, object-oriented software development methods, software development processes, usability, and rule-based systems and has written extensively on these topics (e.g. Graham and Jones, 1988; Graham, 2001; Graham, 2003 - see http://www.trireme.com/expert_help/ian_graham_books.html).