Object Connections has announced the release of version 3.0 of their product, Common Knowledge, a cross-platform business rules engine and management system that supports the capture, representation, documentation, maintenance, testing and deployment of an organization's business rules and application logic.
It includes many new features including full .NET support, ongoing support for Java and Delphi, a range of additional and enhanced business rule formats, user-defined data types, support for XML document handling including XPath and XSLT, and an integrated business rules debugger.
Common Knowledge V3.0 supports all existing rule formats and a range of additional formats, including Workflows, Rete Rules, Decision Grids, State Maps, Flow Charts, Decision Tables, Decision Trees, Scripts and Active Scripts.
Common Knowledge Studio, their visual and interactive business rules authoring environment, has also been enhanced with the addition of many new features including:
- An integrated and interactive business rules debugger
- A streamlined user interface to further increase productivity and usability
- Improved online help including a comprehensive set of user guides, samples and tutorials
- A range of visual, interactive editors supporting all new business rule formats
- The ability to add "reasons" to your business rules, allowing detailed explanations to be associated with each outcome
- The ability to include user defined classes in your business rule definitions
- The ability to define communication channels for the exchange of messages with external applications
- Support for the processing of XML documents (including XPath and XSLT)
- The ability to nest business rule definitions to arbitrary depths, allowing large sets of rules to be more logically structured.
The Common Knowledge product includes the following two core components:
- Common Knowledge Studio - Common Knowledge Studio is a visual development environment that provides support for the capture, representation, maintenance, validation, evaluation and documentation of business rules. This allows developers, analysts and managers to work together on the formulation and ongoing maintenance of organisations’ business rule assets.
- Common Knowledge Rules Engine - Business rules built using Common Knowledge Studio can be integrated directly into your business systems using the Common Knowledge Rules Engine.
Common Knowledge is a commercial product. An evaluation version of the Common Knowledge Studio is available for determination of how well Common Knowledge will fit in your organization from the website, as well as other resources documenting use cases and product capabilities.
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