Drools: The Business Logic Integration Platform

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1 Drools: The Business Logic Integration Platform Jim Tyrrell jtyrrell at redhat dot com Principal JBoss Solutions Architect Red Hat Sept 4, 2014

2 Agenda There is still time to leave What is Open Source? What is Drools? Why Business Rules? How does it help? Drools Components? Drools in Healthcare? Why Red Hat?

3 What is Open Source What are your definitions? Legal: LGPL, GPL, Apache, etc etc FSF Free as in Beer, Free as in Free Speech

4 What is Drools? Community Project drools.org Upstream community home for all of the subprojects that make up the drools community.

5 What is Drools? Definitions Rules Generally shorter duration and you get an answer quickly. Usually no human interaction during the processing. Process Could be short, but often have some sort of workflow. Think of Viso, or flowcharts. Probably have some human interaction.

6 What is Drools? Why a rules engine? Business Rules Management System Decisions in Code 3 Ring Binders/Worksheets Peoples Heads Goal is Repeatable Rules Developers, Testers, Packagers and Analysts working together

7 What is Drools? Why a Rules Engine Enables Developers, Analysts, Testers, and Packagers to be on the same page Free up Coders Rule Reuse in an Organization Enable Changes from Legislature/Analysts/ Users Enforce Repeatably of Rules

8 What is Drools? Organizational Reasons for a Rule Engine How many times is a Rule Duplicated across teams? How often does the legislature make changes? How often to the business users request a change? Is it important to have repeatable Rules? Teamwork doesn t seem Work!!

9 What is Drools? How does it help? Remove Code Duplication Abstract Away from Code Clean up Code Centralize Artifacts Unite Testing, Development, Analysts, Business Owners and more

10 Drools - Components Components Graduated Top Level Sub Projects Expert Fusion OptaPlanner jbpm Workbench Sub Projects

11 Drools - Components Expert Core of the engine DRL, DSL, Decision Tables, Excel, APIs, and more

12 Drools - Components Fusion Complex Event Processing Temporal Data Box Set Data

13 Drools - Components OptaPlanner

14 Drools - Components jbpm

15 Drools - Components Workbench

16 Drools - Components Teamwork Doesn t Seem Work WebUI For Coders, Analysts, Testers and more all working together

17 Drools - Components Embeddable Not a heavy run time Doesn t prescribe for a thick server Rules/Process pushed to your applications Series of jar files via maven you can include in your project For Free

18 Drools - Components Problems it Addresses

19 Drools - Components What s New

20 Drools - Components Typical Workflow

21 Drools - JBPM Critical Factors for the Modern Enterprise Automate and optimize the business processes Manage complexity in the background Empower people to securely collaborate Extend human capabilities by automating lowvalue tasks and orchestrating system integration Monitor the entire business operations helping people make sense of complex data and take smart decisions quickly Implement rapid changes in the business processes to adapt to new circumstances

22 JBPM jbpm 6 and BPMN 2.0

23 Drools - jbpm User Interfaces

24 Drools - jbpm Integration Points

25 jbpm JBPM 6 and BPMN 2.0

26 Drools In Healthcare Vibrant Community Government Healthcare Agencies Medical Imaging Company X-Ray and CT Scans South America Story

27 Drools Demos Opta Planner Demo jbpm Demo

28 Questions Mind the Gap

29 Summary In Conclusion Drools Vibrant Open Source Community Get involved drools.org Wide spread use in Healthcare You are not a first mover Light weight and embeddable engine Run the rules near your workloads on your existing infrastructure Get Involved today

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