K-Site Rules

K-Site Rules is a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) developed by Daedalus in the framework of the ITECBAN R&D project in conjunction with Indra and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Objectives

The K-Site Rules main objectives are:

• Controlling and giving visibility to the business decisions as for the business analyst
• Identifying the Business Rules in order to process them correctly
• Optimizing the execution of Business Rules through specific rules engines

Advantages

• It can be integrated in the life cycle of development of applications and the modelling tool
• It uses a standard language to represent rules (RIF)

Characteristics

The advanced K-Site Rules characteristics allows the:

• Integration in the life cycle of development of applications
• Integration with Eclipse 3.2 for developers
• Web interface for business analysts
• Web interface for administrators
• Independence of the rules engine used to implement the Business Rules
• The process of designing Business Rules is independent of the rules engine used to implement them
• Support for different users' profiles, developers and business analysts
• The users who have business knowledge but no technical knowledge can easily create, validate and produce Business Rules
• Reuse of Business Rules and their components
• The database allows the reuse of rulesets and atomic rules in different Business Rules
• Easy search of rules
• Audit of the developed Business Rules
• Monitoring of the history of the changes made in the Business Rules and versions produced
• Simplicity to validate rules
• The developers as well as the business analysts can check that the Business Rules can work correctly without needing to generate the code

K-Site Rules is funded by the CDTI (Department for Science and Innovation) through the CENIT Programme.

If you want more information about K-Site Rules, you can access this presentation (MK-2009-43-ITECBAN-09_ES) or download the reference white paper (MK-2008-25-ITECBAN). Of course, we are also at your disposal to answer any possible question.