What's New in Smart Rules Q1 2010?

Ruleflows Editor
SmartRules Studio offer are a way to control the execution of business rules and decision tables. Ruleflows simplify the process of defining the sequence of rule execution by providing a graphical interface for designing the flow of execution. A ruleflow consists of linked tasks that contain the instructions for which rules to execute and in what order. Each ruleflow has a start point and at least one end point. The links between the tasks are called transitions.

Flows, Rules Decision and Action Tasks in Project Libraries
Now you can create and store flows, decisions, and tasks in a project libraries and reuse them in multiple Rulesets and Ruleflows.

Support for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 for 64bits platforms
This version of the product suite is officially supported on 64 bits platforms for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.

What's New in Smart Rules Q3 2009?

• SmartRules supports .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5.
• All-new graphical interface to further simplify the process of building rules
• Tab-driven IDE: each entity node in the project tree opens up in a separate window to enable you browse seamlessly among different projects and their entities.
• Simplified project tree for better visibility.
• Ribbon-style menus to easily locate all available actions.
• Multiple Projects: You may open, edit, and test multiple projects at the same time.
• Intellisense in Rule Editor:  The new intelligent bracketing mechanism helps to reduce the effort and time taken to create large expressions, allows assisted typing, and auto-complete mechanism.
• Undo-Redo Actions: Unlimited undo-redo actions in the Rule Editor.
• Support for Generics: The Rule Engine now natively supports C# 2.0 Generics. You can use these generic classes to create your rules.
• Decision Tables:  An alternate and visually powerful way to express business logic.
• Rule Dependencies: Cause a rule's condition to be evaluated only if another rule's condition is true.
• Customizable Skin: Change UI hues at will.
• Ability to Reload Assemblies: The SmartRules Studio now allows you to seamlessly reload new versions of assemblies.
• More Powerful Tracing and Debugging Features: New and more robust testing and diagnosing functionality will facilitate your debugging.
• Database Independence:  Now rules are saved in SmartRules' "DLLs" instead of a database. 

What's New in Smart Rules V7.x?

Improvements

• Smart Rules Task Wizard
• Smart Rules Repository Creation
• Improved Business Dictionary working method.

Database Compatibility:

• MS SQL Server 2000 and 2005 (all editions)
• Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g.
• MySQL 5.*.*.

A new Smart Rules Studio Test Tool and more.

What's New in Smart Rules V6.0?

• New Alias definition to allow easy creation of multi aliases
• A new approach on the rules deployment was integrated, as well as the integration of MS SQL 2005

Overview
Smart Rules is a tool that enables applications to rapidly adapt to regulatory and competitive pressures. Kontac Smart Rules is a .NET tool for creating and customizing rules that are stored in a collection of XML files called a Rule Repository. Rules are if…then statements such as "if the amount of a purchase order is less than $1000.00, then approve that purchase order". Rules operate on facts that are imported from the business objects of an application. The Rule Engine is a .NET 2.0 library that efficiently applies rules to facts. The Rule Engine interprets a rule XML language called Smart Rules Language (SRL). SRL is generated from the Rule Repository or can be written by a rules programmer.

Smart Rules holds your rules in its repository so that you can track each and every rule - who is responsible for it, where it is used , what it does, how it is does it and how it is used. Rules become recognizable assets of your organization - uniquely labeled, owned, and registered so that they can be delegated - perhaps to knowledgeable third party specialists for maintenance; and they can be deployed independently from your core systems - perhaps to mobile or remote systems, or to business partners.

Key Features at a Glance:

• Advanced System to Capture and ledge. Automate Business Knowledge.
• High Performance Rules Inference Engine to Execute Rules in Real Time.
• Dynamic Rules to Rapidly Adapt to Changing Business Scenarios.
• Comprehensive Development and Deployments functions.

Smart Rules Includes

• An enterprise knowledge development environment which is multi-user, project based and with a graphical knowledge object explorer
• Extensive support for the capture & maintenance of rules featuring graphical knowledge representation / structuring, knowledge acquisition features and support for knowledge discovery from historic data
• Flexible, Scalable & efficient deployment and integration featuring rules repository, XML data exchange and Thin client architecture

Smart Rules Framework

The Smart Rules Framework is a stand-alone application that consists of a number of modules, support components, and tools. The primary modules include the Business Rules Studio for constructing, the Run-Time Rule Engine that executes knowledge bases on behalf of a host application, and the Smart Rules Deployment Wizard for deploy Rule Sets Between computers.

Smart Rules Graphical User Interface

The Smart Rules uses a graphical user interface that enables developers, business analysts, and administrators to do the following:

• Create Rule Repositories
• Compose Knowledge base versions from a logical grouping of rules
• Create Business Rules Dictionary
• Include alias in rules (Note: rules can be created with or without user-defined aliases)

Run-Time Rule Engine

The Run-Time Rule Engine performs the following functions:

• Processes rules created as declarative statements without procedural instructions.
• Groups all the rules that apply to a business process together without having to arrange them in order of, or define them in terms of, relationships, contingencies, or dependencies.
• Resolves rule conflicts arising from the simultaneous presence of multiple facts and conditions.
• Supports forward chaining of rules that involves reevaluating rules in the executing sessions on changes to the fact base (addition/removal of facts or changes in state/data of existing facts).