(Doors open at 5:30 for registration, meeting starts at 6:00PM)
Tuesday July 8, 5:30-8:00PM
The Hartford Insurance Company
Nicolas Robbe
Director, Business Solutions ILOG
Business applications require tremendous flexibility in order to adapt to changing
customer demands, regulatory requirements, company policies and competition. Business rules technology
enables a clear separation between true business policy and the rest of the application code, allowing
the business policy to change independently and providing the ability for end business users to directly
modify and maintain the business rules while providing greater control, flexibility and functionality
to IT. Business Rules are an increasingly important means for managing highly variable business logic
in Java technology-based applications, and in Java technology-based integration layers in the enterprise.
Object oriented languages such as Java provide an ideal foundation for rule-based development, and Java technology-based applications built around inference engines enable the rapid, business-driven evolution of software behavior required in many rapidly changing business environments. The insurance industry, e.g., benefits from business rules technology to manage product evolution driven by regulatory environments that vary from state to state, and by changing risk environments. Similar benefits are seen in other industries. In general, rule-based architectures permit information-driven enterprises to decouple the way they engage their customers from static software implementations, allowing more rapid product evolution, improved customer service delivery, and increased day-to-day flexibility in operations.
This presentation will discuss:
• Evolution of business rules technology (from rule engines to business rules management)
• How to integrate business rules technology into Java applications and legacy systems, including applications running on the J2EE platform
• How to identify structural and fixed versus non-structural and changeable logic elements in your design
• How more flexible applications can be developed using business rules with real-world examples from the insurance industry.
Nicolas Robbe is Director of Business Solutions at ILOG, a leader in Business Rules Management and Optimization Software. Nicolas has over 12 years of experience in the fields of business rules technologies and optimization, and their application to specific-industry problems. Prior to joining ILOG in 1995, Nicolas spent several years in software engineering positions at Siemens and Bull Computers. He attended the University of Colorado and the Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France, where he graduated with a MS in Computer Science
$5.00 Admission No Reservations Required Complimentary Soda and Cookies
Three book door prizes courtesy Addison Wesley.