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Developing Complex Business Rules with

Drools Integration

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WELCOME: MEET YOUR HOSTS

Ronak Services

Vivecca Marketing

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Bonita Open Solution Overview

How Business Rules Support Business Decisions

Examples of Use Cases

Live Demo of Business Rules & Drools Integration

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Business Decisions and Business Rules

BUSINESS PROCESS DEFINED

A business process is a flow of decision-

coordinated activities, conducted by

participants and acting on data, information and knowledge that

reach a goal.

WHY BUSINESS RULES

Protects against inconsistent data

Saves time by removing need for human calculations and interactions

Knowledge transfer and centralized Knowledge repositories

SCENARIOS FOR BUSINESS RULES

• General rules that apply to all business activities

• Specific rules that only apply to specific situations or transactions

• Rules that constrain transactions between business entities or processes

• Rules that define or constrain relationships between business entities or processes

• Rules that define or constrain business events

• Rules the derive business facts

• Rules that require certain actions in specific situations

• Rules that forbid certain actions in specific situations

Real World Examples

REAL WORLD EXAMPLE

Old Dominion University uses business rules to route account request tickets to various stakeholders and departments.An account may need supervisor, budget unit director, data owner, system owner approval or any combination of the above. Some requests might only need supervisor approval while others require data and/or system owner approval.Read the complete case study: STREAMLINING THE ACCOUNT REQUEST PROCESS AT OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY

REAL WORLD EXAMPLEAn Insurance Company

This company uses Bonita Open Solution to manage standard insurance claims processing. Hundreds of scanned requests are received daily and routed to the appropriate customer service claims processor via complex business rules built into Bonita’s Java based engine.

Demo Overview

OVERVIEW OF PROCESS IN DEMO

A supplier calculates the discounts for their product depending on the value of a contract. The rates are: • 10% for a contract with a value of more than $50,000  • 5% discount for a contract between $10 and $50,000• No discount if the contract is less than $10,000

After negotiated, the cost for shipping their product in the United States based on three US geographies: • East Coast ($100), West Coast ($200) and Mid West ($300)

After this, the tax rate is calculated based on these respective geographies:• East Coast (7%), West Coast (8.5%) and Mid West (6%)

Scenario: A Procurement Process

RULES APPLIED IN DEMO EXAMPLE

Calculate discount (%)

Calculate shipping

Calculate tax

STEPS

Model the Procurem

ent Process

Construct condition

Drools Iimplementation

Get input parameter

Generate the list of

facts

Apply the rules on the list of

facts

Show the resulting list of fact with the

rules applied to

them

HOW TO CONSTRUCT DROOLS BUSINESS RULES IN BOS

• Data Model • Write drl (rule) file• Build  Knowledge Base• Model the process based application • Configure Drools connector

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