Business Rules Engine: A Modern Design Practice?

Thoughts after attending a knowledge sharing session today at work: People are talking about business rules engines and enterprise web-app designs based on the same - they are calling it a modern trend in IT design principles and seeing opening for usage of cutting-edge technology innovation from available BPM tools-gallery. Don’t know is it just me or is it really a less-known fact that business rules based application design has been there for ages (and by that I mean at least 15 years) and can be found in many legacy systems. I personally had experience in one that had character-based definitions of business rules that business users used to modify directly and the application used to perform quote-calculations based on those rules. Well, as a matter of fact, the system still exists and does the same operation till date. All that the new BPM tools are giving us today is a more visual way of handing the rules, ease of large scale design, and a feel-good sense for the less-informed who are thinking they are dealing with cutting-edge technology!

This is a Test Blog using WordPress’s Email Blogging feature

This is exactly what I was looking for – for sometime… just to be more productive in the blogosphere, as I could no longer access WordPress.com from my workplace! Great that this feature exists, and will help me keep jotting down my thoughts on the spot and put them up in here so that the world can read ‘em.

Great!

Animated Platonic Solids

For sheer visual pleasure:

For an elaborate understanding of the 5 Platonic Solids, please visit Wikipedia.