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| <mainDescription><p>
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| <a id="XE_BRMS" name="XE_BRMS"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">S</span></a>ystem designed to modify
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| and manage business logic independently from the enterprise application.&nbsp;&nbsp;BRMS provides a way to automate
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| decision making and execute precisely on business policy. Consequently, policies and decisions form the core of all
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| business processes and activities.<font face="Arial" size="1">&nbsp;</font>A BRMS product&nbsp;should include
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| facilities to enable:
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| <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Full life-cycle maintenance of
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| business rules by business analysts</span> and developers
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| <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Assured consistency by
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| representing business knowledge uniformly with centralized control</span>
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| <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Facilities for testing, scenario
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| generation, and impact analysis</span>
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| is a method and means to treat rules as a true corporate asset.</span><br />
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