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Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL

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Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL

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Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Introduction to Business Rules Management


This section will discuss the details of Business Rules Management from the perspective of its relationship with BPM and SOA, and how it adds value to a business. Let us start by understanding some key concepts around business rules.

What are Business Rules?

Business rules can be defined as the key decisions and policies of the business. Rules are virtually everywhere in an organization; an example is the rule in a bank to deny a loan for a customer if his or her annual income is less than $15,000. We can generally categorize business rules under the following categories:

  • Business Policies: These are rules associated with general business policies of a company, for example, loan approval policies, escalation policies, and so on.

  • Constraints: These are the rules which business has to keep in mind, and work within the scope of while going about their operations. Rules associated with regulatory requirements will fall under this category.

  • Computation: These...