Achieving Decision Consistency Across the SOA-Based Enterprise Using Business Rules Management Systems

The adoption of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides businesses with the ability to rapidly deploy new applications and easily integrate with other component applications both inside and outside the organization. This decentralized application environment provides a great deal of flexibility for business units and IT departments, but it also creates difficulty in managing the consistency of business decisions delivered through various applications. Business rules management systems (BRMS) provide a mechanism for managing decision logic and act as a conductor in order to align application decision behavior.