Haley Systems Provides Business Agility for Automated Decision Making

Haley Systems Provides Business Agility for Automated Decision Making

Industry Analyst Report Highlights Natural Language Benefits of Haley's Business Rules Management System

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Haley Systems, a technology provider of business rules management systems, today announced the availability of a report featuring Haley Systems authored by global intelligence and advisory firm, IDC (December 2004, IDC Report #32597). The report, written by IDC Software Research Group program vice president Steve McClure, states that businesses seeking a competitive advantage and agility through automated decision-making are best served by business rules management systems (BRMS) that enable business analysts to directly capture and manage the rules, without significant reliance on IT programmers. The report is available for download at http://www.haley.com/.

While examining Haley Systems' BRMS solution, the Haley Business Rules Suite, IDC discovered some distinctive differentiating advantages. Among the advantages cited is Haley's natural language functionality and its ability to capture rules in real English, as business people think, rather than in forced, if/then statements or tables, or programming code.

"... Haley's ability to shrink rules into compound English sentences may just provide the agility companies are going to need when they want to create and change their business rules without a lengthy wait for IT to code the rules and subsequent changes," said Steve McClure. "The approach of stating the action and then adding all the conditions and exceptions closely resembles the way business analysts think about issues and express them."

BRMSs are software tools that work alongside or inside enterprise IT applications such as loan, mortgage and insurance underwriting, insurance claims, fraud detection and customer relationship management (CRM) software programs that enable enterprises to automate decision-making processes.

"We are very pleased to be recognized by IDC as a technology innovator in the business rules management systems market," said Mark Juliano, President and Chief Executive Officer, Haley Systems, Inc. "Haley continues to engineer best-of-breed technology for this fast growing market."

The IDC report points out that the natural language interface enables business analysts and IT professionals to use English sentences, as opposed to stilted, numerous in/then phrases. "The business analyst can be thinking at the logic level (e.g. business policies, constraints, and regulations) rather than at the rule level (i.e. if/then)." He goes on to say " ... HaleyAuthority provides the ability for nonprogrammers to author and/or modify rules ... without understanding underlying the object model or any of the implementation details."

IDC highlights other advantages that set Haley apart from other BRMS vendors. "The capability to incrementally add conditions and exclusions and nest them eliminates the need to refactor the logic and results in a much more concise statement of rules compared with many systems that have to flatten the logic..."And the fact that the HaleyRules inference engine includes both backward and forward chaining, "makes rule processing more efficient and faster. It also simplifies the logic that one has to create in the rules base."

Steve McClure identifies a small footprint, speed, and scalability as key characteristics of Haley's rules engine. "The rules engine loads, checks and applies tens of thousands of rules per second." Another Haley differentiator is its ability to support multiple IT environments. "The support of .NET, Java, and C/C++ is important to companies with heterogeneous platforms."

About Haley Systems, Inc.: Haley Systems, Inc., a technology provider in business rules management systems, provides unprecedented access to and management of business rules to non-programmers through its use of natural language understanding. Customers include various Global 1000 companies such as Adobe, AT&T, Corporate Systems, Cigna, Medco Health Solutions, BUPA, KPN and One Beacon Insurance, as well as government organizations including the U.S. Army, the Department of Labor and Inland Revenue. A copy of the IDC report can be downloaded at http://www.haley.com/.


Source: Haley Systems, Inc.

CONTACT: Joan Tesla of Haley Systems, Inc., +1-724-934-2116,
Fax: +1-724-934-7860, jtesla@haley.com

Web site: http://www.haley.com/


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