In the fast-paced and constantly changing business environment, it is more important than ever for organizations to be agile, monitor business performance, and meet with increasingly stringent compliance requirements. This title provides a platform for rethinking how to view, design, execute, and govern business logic. This is an important book: it has important things to say about an especially important set of real-world problems-business rules ? The authors weave their business rule methodology together with the whole complex of other major business/technology areas, including business decision models, business process management, SOA, and requirement definitions ? shows how a new way of using rules located in a common evaluation module can greatly simplify a business process and make it far easier to modify when the need arises.-From the Foreword by Ken Orr, Topeka, Kansas ? one of the classic books of a new era in computing ? -Opher Etzion, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa ? a significant addition to our industry's body of knowledge.-Dave Hay, Capgemini Financial Services and Bestselling Author ? on the mark ? a roadmap to successful use of business rules.-Arne Herenstein, Insurance Industry Executive ? a new approach to improve the elicitation and quality of functional requirements and corresponding test cases in the development of systems .-William D. Miller, Stevens Institute of Technology ? may very well change the way we define information systems in the future.-Nadav Nahshon, Enterprise Data Architect I expect the Decision Model to inspire developers of business rule mining and authoring technologies for years to come.-Mannes Nauer, Software Expert ? a must for all of us who wish to break down our business rules and integrate them into the rest of our metadata systems.-Robert Schork, DAMA-NJ and Meta-Data Professional Organization ? explains how to apply the model to directly benefit requirements planning, business processes, enterprise architecture and enterprise decision-making.-Robert S. Seiner, KIK Consulting and TDAN.com ? covers the full spectrum of what you need to know when adopting decision management.-Carole-Ann Matignon, FICO ? provides a framework and model that takes our field to the next level ?-Len Silverston, Bestselling Author ? presents a formal, and yet practical, model for business logic and business rules ?-Andrew Spanyi, Bestselling Author I suspect this will be the handbook in this area for quite some time and a must read for all levels in IT today.-Thomas Wolfe, Capricorn Technology Group