Business Rules and Business Process Management

Formalize Company Policy with Business Rules

Your company operates according to a set of specific procedures and constraints that invoke the use of strictly-defined business objects that contribute to overall strategy and goals. These rules are essential because they help maintain overall consistency and focus in company processes, but for many businesses, the underlying rules that control daily activities are not properly maintained or understood.

Business Rules bring Strategy and Policy into Alignment

Standardize and enforce company strategy by modeling operations, definitions, and constraints that employees must follow through Business Rules. Business Rules define and constrain company processes in order to control the behavior of your company, ensuring that employee activities are aligned with business goals and strategies.

Business Rules and Process Management

By connecting business rules to business processes, you create a direct correlation between company policy and business activities. Mapping business rules to process activities and decision points ensures process integrity by keeping employees aware of precisely how to manage decisions according to top-level goals and policies.

Furthermore, the maintenance and lifecycle of business rules and business processes can be radically different. By maintaining a relationship between distinct business rules and process activities, it becomes easier to manage change in your company. For instance, changing a single business rule can affect hundreds of processes – by maintaining rules separate from processes, all of these processes can be brought up to date by changing a single business rule.

The Interfacing Advantage: Our Enterprise Process Center allows you to create a lexicon of business rules with the ease-of-use that will make it accessible to any user who is able to check their email. With just a few clicks of the mouse, you can create business rules and relate them to your business processes, enriching your entire process map with the details needed to ensure compliance with company policy.