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to business and market change. This is not an attempt to say that IT personnel
are not doing their job; to the contrary, IT people are working harder today than
they were 50 years ago. IT has the daunting challenges to respond in a manner
that is faster and better all at the same time. In today’s global economy and
fast-paced environment, he who hesitates loses. The faster an enterprise can
respond to shifting market forces, the better its chances are of staying alive.
Business rules represent a different paradigm of building applications. The
business rules approach requires a different infrastructure than traditional
applications, and as ...