Local distributor AIGS officially released the Corticon Business Rules Management System last week.
Corticon's patented "no-coding" rules engine automates decision processes, enabling organisations to increase efficiencies, operate more responsively, reduce rule development and improve development cycles by up to 90%.
AIGS introduced the system at the themed event "Breakthrough in Business Rules Management", which, according to AIGS MD Rick Parry, alludes to the system's ability to translate complex programming code into business-friendly terms and create greater agility.
"It literally allows software applications to break though its constraints and to adapt quickly as circumstances within the company or marketplace change," Parry explained in his opening address.
Speakers at the launch event included Danie Mouton from Ninety-three degrees, Dina Jacobs of triVector, Harold-Jan Verlee, senior solutions consultant at Progress Software; as well as Tienie de Klerk, business systems manager at Columbus Stainless.
"Extensive studies have shown that 50% of CEOs globally do not feel that they can handle the complexity of the environments they are facing currently," Mouton explained.
"Factors such as regulatory change, policy change, competitors entering the market, consumer behaviour shifts and new forms of fraud have left companies locked in a continuous struggle to cope with these rapid changes," he adds.
According to Forrester Research, "there is relentless demand from businesses to deliver more solutions in less time, at low cost, to keep pace with business changes".
"As a result, business rules platforms have never been more important because they automate decisions for rapid business action - so that the software can automatically apply the business policies and procedures in a faster, cheaper and more scalable manner than human mediation," he notes.
De Klerk attested to the impact of using a business rules management system.
"Demand for steel has fluctuated dramatically over the last two years; uncertainty and volatility have become the norm for the industry."
In 2008, Columbus made the decision to replace and re-engineer its existing production planning system as an in-house development due to the limited skills availability of the old technology and its high maintenance costs, which presented a number of challenges.
"When replacing an existing business system, the principal challenge lies with the vast number of business logic and rules captured in the source code of the old application over many years of adaptation," De Klerk explains.
"Fortunately, the Corticon business rules engine automates these business rules and logic in business-friendly terms, understood by those who have to operate and maintain the system, without having to understand the underlying programming conventions of the application code. This puts the day-to-day operation of the system in the hands of the decision-makers, rather than being wholly dependent on IT staff who may not understand all the business variables involved," De Klerk concludes.
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