The main features of 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.