RuleXpress Features

The current release is RuleXpress 3.3

New Features in 3.3

• Introduction of the new manageable item kind Decision. A decision is a valuable abstraction to organize your operational rules and decision tables.
• New overview Dependency Overview, a graphical representation of the relationships and dependencies between the different items in your repository.
• New overview Hierarchical Overview, a graphical representation using the "box in box" method showing hierarchies in a concise way
• Colouring of Keywords in expressions, making it easier to analyse which terms need a definition. These keywords will be used in the pattern support that will be available in a future release of RuleXpress.
• Simple Intellisense for Expressions. While typing RuleXpress will suggest which terms to use in your expression, based on your vocabulary.

Dependency Overview and Hierarchical Overview

Intellisense

Other Features in RuleXpress

• Multi-community and inter-community coordination of concepts and vocabulary.
• Robust support for ownership, adoption and re-usability of terms, rules and facts.
• Support for synonyms and homonyms.
• Support for definitions and concept-centric management based on OMG's standard "Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules" also known as SBVR compliant.
• Application of quality criteria directly and interactively while expressing business rules.
• Construction of rules based on defined terminology by dragging and dropping.
• Automatic recognization and hyperlinks of defined terms in rule statements and definitions.
• Support for decision tables.
• Methodology independent.
• Integrated help system.
• Support for rule groups as organization principle.
• Hierarchy of rule groups.
• Order rules in rule groups and preservation of a presentation sequence.
• Integrated support for graphical fact modeling.
• Import of FactXpress fact models.
• Import of rules and terms from Excel or comma delimited format.
• Rule consistency checks.
• Check on language usage based on RuleSpeak best practices.
• Check on preferred terminology usage.
• Circular definition checks.
• Intuitive features for business people.
• Independence of rules from implementation technology (rule engines).
• Natural support for constraints.
• Easy embedment in other technologies.
• Multiple DBMS support for repository.
• Multi user support.
• Extensive reporting functionality including user-defined queries.
• Customized reports using XSLT to include own house style etc.
• Supported Application Programming Interface (API).
• Synchronization feature for linking with rules in business rules engines or other environments.
• Tracking of all changes (history).
• Rule versions.
• Networked version.
• Support for off-line work.
• Pricing based on number of users.
• Availability of bundled training.
• Availability of services.

• Industry-norm annual maintenance fees.

Releases

RuleArts released RuleXpress 3.3 at the end of 2011. This release adresses decisions and semantics.

RuleArts released RuleXpress 3.2 at the end of 2010. The main features of RuleXpress 3.2 are aimed at performance, aiding our customers with large repositories . It also incorporates an export function to Visio.

RuleArts released RuleXpress 3.1 in early 2010. RuleXpress 3.1 integrates factmodeling support (also available in the standalone product FactXpress) and improves the expression editor. Click here  for an overview of the features and enhancements in RuleXpress 3.1.

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