Technical Documents
Integrating a Web Service with HaleyAuthority
Reinforcement of logic and policies through externalization of business rules
Today, the externalization of business rules is essential as businesses must increase agility to maintain a competitive advantage. Presently, organizations are increasingly transferring the responsibility of maintaining and capturing business rules to business analysts. Additionally, business logic captured and maintained by analysts must be readily accessible across multiple applications to truly increase agility. One way to increase agility is by externalizing business rules.
Organizations utilizing web services are able to externalize business rules and increase accessibility across applications used by various departments. Organizations leveraging and enforcing a common set of rules result in the break down of organizational silos. The ultimate result is that organizations' utilizing web services are able to easily adjust to the dynamic regulations, business practices, and auditing processes. This document will provide users with a tutorial to instruct businesses interested in leveraging a web service as an implementation layer for HaleyAuthority knowledge base. Users can view firsthand documentation how various entities and method reference by the web service can provide implementation of the concepts and relations of the semantic model maintained within the authoring tool.