Business rule management system integration into enterprise resource planning systems using triggers

Abstract

Business rule management systems are used to automate and support decisions in business processes. One of the main business management systems peculiarities is a slow and resource consuming implementation, which causes latency between business policy confirmation by dedicated authority and implementation into the software systems of enterprise information system. On the other hand, changes in information system processes supporting business should appear in conjunction with business policy changes. In such circumstances, the topical problem is the fast readjustment of business management systems, approaching zero latency. Separation of business rules from the software system of information system code is one of the ways to solve this problem. However the architecture of enterprise resource planning systems usually does not support this method. This paper presents a method based on business rule transformation into the active database management system triggers and deployment of them into an active database management system, which is a part of a business management system.