economic sector is currently making the most use of these applications, but they are
clearly heavily used in the financial sector.
Therefore, if there are already generic business rules engines on the market, or
specific applications that are in fact rules engines, why would anybody consider build-
ing a rules engine? Surprisingly, there are a number of reasons why build rather than
buy can be a good idea.
Cost and Scale
A major reason for building a business rules engine is cost. Commercial business rules
engines can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase or license. Even after
that, they must be integrated into the enterprise’s IT environment. In particular, they
need to be configured to acquire the data they need to process. This can add ...