PRODUCT SHEET: CA Aion Business Rules Expert CA Aion Business Rules Expert 11.0 CA Aion Business Rules Expert r11 (CA Aion BRE) is an industryleading system that automates and streamlines business functions and processes using rules automation, rules management, and rules-based application development for building intelligent systems. CA Aion BRE delivers an open, integrated solution to leverage the knowledge of your business and IT experts, and provides the agility to react quickly to changes in your business and IT environments. Overview CA Aion BRE simplifies the complexity of rules management and rules-based application development, helping IT and lines of business (LOB) meet their requirements. IT can utilize the comprehensive development environment of CA Aion BRE to build and maintain rules and create advanced rules-based applications. LOB can utilize its Web-based, easy-to-use CA Aion Rule Manager component to create and manage the business terms and rules under their domain. This powerful combination of business know-how and IT automation enables closer collaboration and alignment of IT and LOB to meet corporate goals. Business value CA Aion BRE delivers an advanced system for rules automation, rules management, and rulesbased solution development. It enables businesses to transform voluminous, complex business logic and knowledge into manageable rules, and deploy them in intelligent enterprise solutions to drive, automate, and manage core business functions.
Optimize your business and IT knowledge One of the most valuable assets of today s enterprise is the knowledge and expertise of its people. As the business environment becomes more complex with changing laws, regulations, and policies and grows increasingly competitive, the need for organizations to maximize business flexibility and agility has never been greater. By capturing and automating human expertise and knowledge in intelligent systems to manage and drive business productivity, your critical experts and resources are free to focus on delivering value and optimizing your business for success. What s new and compelling Mainframe 2.0 CA Mainframe Software Manager The CA Mainframe Software Manager (CA MSM) automates CA Aion BRE installation, deployment, and maintenance and removes SMP/E complexities. The Software Acquisition Service enables you to easily move product installation packages and maintenance from online support directly to your mainframe environment and prepare them for installation. The Software Installation Service standardizes CA Aion BRE installation, which includes a new, streamlined Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) method that allows CA Aion BRE to be installed using standard utilities. This service also provides standardized SMP/E product installation and maintenance via APARs and PTFs, and simplifies SMP/E processing through an intuitive graphical user interface and an intelligent Installation Wizard. The Software Deployment Service enables you to easily deploy CA Aion BRE in your mainframe environment. CA MSM Consolidation Software Inventory (CSI) updates and infrastructure improvements add flexibility to CA MSM processing of CSIs and enable CA MSM to more effectively utilize CPU and system memory. Installation verification program (IVP) and execution verification program As part of qualification for inclusion in the set of CA Technologies mainframe products released every May, CA Aion BRE has passed stringent tests performed through the IVP and the EVP to find and resolve interoperability problems prior to release. These programs are an extension of ongoing interoperability certification initiatives from CA Technologies, launched in May 2009. Best practices guide This guide provides information on CA Aion BRE installation, initial configuration, and deployment to shorten the learning curve for staff who are responsible for the installation and management of this product. Health Checker The Mainframe 2.0 Health Checker provides CA Aion BRE Health Checks that execute under the IBM Health Checker for z/os. CA Aion BRE Health Checks automatically check the status of VTAM and TCP/IP requests to MAES (Multitasking Aion Execution System) and issue messages if busy responses are at or nearing a level that could indicate a problem. 2
CA AION BRE 11.0 Dynamic Rules Manager CA Aion BRE Dynamic Rules Manager now includes a clone facility and new reports. This feature enables you to easily copy domains and rules within CA Aion BRE. JAVA Connection Architecture (JCA/JAVA Resource Adapter (JRA) support JCA/JRA improves connectivity and performance by adding support for TCP/IP calls between J2EE environments and MAES on the mainframe. DB2 multi-row fetch CA Aion BRE r11 includes performance improvements for fetching rows within DB2. Updated infrastructure includes support for the latest operating systems, databases, application servers, compilers, and other standards, including Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, and XML support on the mainframe. CA Aion Rule Manager a component of CA Aion BRE r11, includes expanded usability features, the ability to convert a Rule Project to CA Aion BRE, additional Web services deployment options, an updated open source platform, and a smaller footprint. Features Advanced rules automation and management CA Aion BRE enables you to build, develop, and manage business rules and complete rules-based applications via the following features: Comprehensive Interactive Development Environment (IDE) CA Aion BRE provides a feature-rich IDE for developers to build, test, and maintain business rules and rule-based applications. The flexible IDE enables developers to build rules, components, and frameworks, as well as complete applications with user interfaces and data access based on users specific requirements and needs. It offers comprehensive class libraries, interactive development and debugging, and integration capabilities with life-cycle management tools. High-performance inference At the heart of CA Aion BRE is a high-performance inference engine that interprets and executes rules in real time. The engine supports forward and backward chaining, as well as many types of rules, including more advanced patternmatching rules. Dynamic rules CA Aion BRE also supports dynamic rules that are designed to be changed on the fly without incurring system downtime. Interoperability CA Aion BRE supports popular languages, databases, standards, and platforms from the mainframe to the desktop. CA Aion BRE components can be deployed and integrated in existing and new enterprise solutions using integration standards such as Java and Web Services. 3
Rules management for business and IT audiences CA Aion BRE includes CA Aion Rule Manager, which provides business users and business analysts an environment to build and maintain rules without programming. Easy-to-use rule editors CA Aion BRE provides easy-to-use editors which present rules in intuitive formats designed for non-technical users. Flexible business vocabulary Users create and maintain English-like business terms that are used in rule definitions. This provides consistency across rules and facilitates collaboration via a common understanding of the business and its terminology. Organizing rules projects Users organize rules in a hierarchical manner similar to file folders so that sets of rules can be easily grouped and retrieved based on logical relations within an application or project. Rule definition wizard This feature guides users through the simple steps of rule definition. Rule validation Once the rules are defined, users can set up test cases to validate the rules and confirm they return the expected results. User management CA Aion BRE is designed to give individual users the right access to the rules under their domain. Rules can be shared only when the others users are given permission. Rule discovery and generation CA Aion BRE utilizes advanced analytics to generate business rules directly from data. This enables organizations to quickly discover new or changing rules, as well as create rules when human expertise is scarce or unavailable. Rule Repository The Rule Repository provides enhanced rules entitlement and ownership features plus check-in, checkout, versioning, comparison, rollback, and search capabilities for the rules created using CA Aion Rule Manager. Rule deployment CA Aion Rule Manager allows rules to be deployed as Web services. They can be deployed on remote servers, in addition to the server on which they were developed. Support for XML I/O A library for XML I/O enables developers to create classes from XML definitions and serialize and de-serialize instances of these classes from XML data. This provides for integration of business rules from any external source in XML format. 4
Supported environments IBM Z/OS V1R8 and above Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 and 5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10 SUSE Linux 9 on system Z HP-UX PA-RISC B.11.11 and B11.23 HP-UX ITANIUM B.11.23 IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 Solaris 9 and 10 Key benefits delivered Helps reduce costs CA Aion BRE goes far beyond making it easy to build and manage business and IT rules. It also can accelerate time-to-market, delivering agility to help businesses meet competition, improve productivity, and lessen the risks of new development projects. CA Aion BRE has an advanced rule inference engine, which, combined with its function-rich development environment, enables organizations to rapidly build, test, and deploy intelligent applications including dynamic rules that can be modified without incurring system downtime. This helps reduce costs in application development life cycles, as well as in the business functions and processes transformed by rules automation. 5
The CA Technologies advantage Leverage knowledge for competitive advantage Businesses worldwide use CA Aion BRE to leverage expert knowledge to capitalize on new market opportunities, automate decision-making within business processes, and deliver new products and solutions to the market with increased speed and accuracy. CA Services provides a portfolio of mainframe services delivered through internal staff and a network of established business partners chosen to help you achieve a successful deployment and get the desired business results as quickly as possible. Our standard service offerings are designed to speed deployment and accelerate the learning curve for your staff. Field-proven mainframe best practices and training from CA Technologies can lower risk, improve use and adoption, and ultimately align the product configuration to your business requirements. Copyright 2010 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. This document is for your informational purposes only. CA assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the information. To the extent permitted by applicable law, CA provides this document as is without warranty of any kind, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or noninfringement. In no event will CA be liable for any loss or damage, direct or indirect, from the use of this document, including, without limitation, lost profits, business interruption, goodwill, or lost data, even if CA is expressly advised in advance of the possibility of such damages. 291410