Service Orienting the Swedish Vaccination Recommendation Activity with the Business Rules Centric Digital Service VacSam

Toward a Functional Reference Model for Business Rules Management

“…Like other authors (e.g. Graham (2006) [22] or Morgan (2002) [14]), they emphasize the relation between the business rules model and other parts of the business model [1,8]. They have identified important requirements for tools supporting BRM.…”

“…Most of these definitions are either pointed out from an IT perspective or from a business perspective. An often used statement when defining business rules is that business rules should be based upon facts, and that facts should be based upon concepts that are represented by terms [8,18]. This statement is referred to as the business rules 'mantra'; it is an approximation that simplifies the explanation for business people and others new to the topic [17].…”

“…Thus, the BRA includes tasks, roles, a rule repository, rules engines for automation, and formal ways of expressing rules, so that business policies can be quantified, accessed and changed as needed [5]. Moreover, the BRA stresses the importance of separating business rules from other parts of the software, as well as the need that business rules should be managed by business experts and not by IT [8,14,22]. Business rules are the means through which the link between business and IT is established.…”

“…Literature hardly provides answers to this question. There have been studies on the development of business rules management systems [1,7,8], the integration of business rules with business processes, or the establishment of business rules in business process management [4,9]. Moreover, authors often limit their analysis to the process of modeling and specification of business rules [10,11].…”