Fair Isaac Corporation is (NYSE:FIC) makes decisions smarter. The company’s solutions and technologies for Enterprise Decision Management give businesses the power to automate more processes, and apply more intelligence to every customer interaction. Through increasing the precision, consistency and agility of their decisions, Fair Isaac clients worldwide increase sales, build customer value, cut fraud losses, manage credit risk, reduce operational costs, meet changing compliance demands and enter new markets more profitably. The Blaze Advisor™ business rules management system is used by hundreds of customers around the world for defining, executing, and maintaining rules-based applications and decision services. Integration with Fair Isaac predictive models, scorecards, and complex segmentation trees gives Blaze Advisor comprehensive functionality for both data-driven and policy-driven rules.

InRule Technology is an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) that engineers and sells business rule engine technology for use in enterprise application development projects and to embed in other technologies through an OEM sales channel. InRule provides Enterprise Rule Architecture and Rules Oriented Application Development (ROAD) services to assist with the implementation of business rule engine technology.

Pegasystems provides rules-based, smart business process management software to large organizations, helping to deliver significant ROI and providing them with the flexibility and agility to respond to changing business needs. Pegasystems’ unique approach to rules management is based on the belief that, like business data, business rules should be managed as a separate corporate asset. Pegasystems’ enterprise rules engine separates business logic from your mission-critical applications and enables your enterprise to capture, manage and execute your business policies and practices.

Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS) is the recognized world leader in the advancement of the Business Rule Approach. Our principal, Ronald G. Ross is acknowledged globally as the “father” of business rules. BRS provides the complete set of services and the expertise that enable organizations to apply the business rule approach effectively, quickly, and successfully. BRS offers public seminars, in-house training, publications, tools, and Proteus®, the internationally acclaimed and proven business rule methodology.

Founded in 1976, CGI is one of the largest independent information technology and business process services firms in the world. CGI employs approximately 25,000 professionals in over 100 offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Our global delivery capabilities include onsite, home-shore, near-shore and off-shore options; giving our clients the flexibility to choose the model that best meets their needs. Through our vertical expertise in financial services, government and healthcare, telecommunications and utilities, manufacturing, distribution and retail, we provide clients with a partner that is not only expert in IT, but expert in their industries. This combination of business knowledge and technology expertise allows us to help our clients adapt as their industries change.

Experian’s Decision Analytics business combines data intelligence, analytics, software and consulting to provide credit risk, identity and fraud solutions that help clients increase profitability and improve performance. Its enterprise-wide decisioning solutions enable clients to manage and optimize risk; prevent, detect and reduce fraud; meet regulatory obligations; and gain operational efficiencies. Trusted by leading businesses worldwide, Experian’s Decision Analytics business provides the intelligence to make accurate and informed decisions to help clients better manage their customer relationships.

Strategy Management^SM is Experian’s business rules engine that provides the flexibility, control and intelligence to maximize the value of customer relationships and improve performance.

Innovations’ Visual Rules is the only Business Rules Management System (BRMS) where the rules are exclusively defined graphically. This graphical modeling is a historic technological leap that empowers business users to intuitively define, simulate and test their logic and then automatically generate Java and Web Services. Projects are reporting 50% to 90% reduction in development time and costs. Leading experts are now endorsing Visual Rules which has ten years of growing success. In addition, Visual Rules has now incorporated the most advanced enterprise and business architecture methodology.

RuleXpress by RuleArts is a software tool aimed toward the business-level capture, analysis and management of business rules, including the terms and facts that support them. It is intended to be a business-friendly tool for business workers to use directly in developing guidance (business rules and/or other elements of governance) for the business in business terms, as well as the business glossaries to support them.

The Business Intelligence Network™ delivers industry-based content hosted by domain experts and industry leaders in Business Intelligence, Business Performance Management, Data Warehousing and Information Quality. The Business Intelligence Network serves these communities with unparalleled industry coverage and resources. The Network consist of four sites—www.BeyeSEARCH.com the only BI and DW specific search engine on the web, www.BeyeBLOGS.com a community blogging site, www.BeyeRESEARCH.com a resource site for industry specific surveys and research, and the flagship site www.BeyeNETWORK.com. All of the sites utilize the most advanced technology available for delivery of content over the web which includes RSS feeds, expert hosted blogs, audio driven interviews and podcasting.

Business Rules Community, sponsored by Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS), is a vertical, non-commercial community for business rule professionals. BRCommunity provides articles, commentary, discussion areas, and a variety of other valuable hands-on resources, and is home to the Business Rules Journal, which appears there free-of-charge. BRCommunity.com is much more than simply an on-line publication. With the help of a talented staff and generous supporters, it has grown into the place to be for business rules. Join today free-of-charge!

ITtoolbox is an online community of professionals who share practical information on IT topics. This community enables anyone to access the collective knowledge of a worldwide audience of experienced professionals. In doing so, ITtoolbox satisfies the need for practical and timely information for an infinite number of possible challenges in the complex and rapidly changing field of information technology.

The ITtoolbox platform integrates the following collaboration and community publishing tools:

• Groups
• Blogs
• Wiki
• Knowledge Bases
• Professional Networking

ITtoolbox has 30 Web sites with over 1.4 million pages of community-generated content providing practical IT information.

Tech Decisions guides top-level insurance technology and business professionals in managing their companies’ systems on a day-to-day basis and informs their decision-making for the future. Through in-depth features, case studies, how-to articles, news briefs, and detailed analysis, Tech Decisions:

• delivers the latest intelligence on implementations and solutions

• addresses key issues and challenges driving the business domestically and globally,

• discusses technology initiatives meeting those challenges, and

• provides useful insights into emerging technologies and new directions for the industry.

Each issue assists readers in leveraging time-tested as well as leading-edge technology products, systems, and strategies—and in making the best decisions to fulfill the business and profitability needs of today’s insurance and financial services marketplace.

Information Systems analysts have long been able to describe an enterprise in terms of the structure of the data the enterprise uses and the organization of the functions it performs. Unfortunately, there is often neglect of the rules (constraints and conditions) under which the enterprise operates.

Frequently these rules are not articulated until it is time to convert them into program code. While rules that are represented by the structure and functions of an enterprise have been documented to a degree, others have not been articulated well, if at all.

The Business Rules Group (BRG) was organized to carry out that articulation.

The Object Management Group (OMG) is an open membership, not-for-profit consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications. Our membership includes virtually every large company in the computer industry, and hundreds of smaller ones. Most of the companies that shape enterprise and Internet computing today are represented on our Board of Directors.

Our flagship specification is the multi-platform Model Driven Architecture (MDA), recently underway but already well known in the industry. It is based on the modeling specifications the MOF, the UML, XMI, and CWM. OMG’s own middleware platform is CORBA, which includes the Interface Definition Language OMG IDL, and protocol IIOP. The Object Management Architecture (OMA) defines standard services that will carry over into MDA work shortly. OMG Task Forces standardize Domain Facilities in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, and others.

The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications.