Business rules are the day-to-day policies, constraints and know-how that determine how insurance companies calculate premiums, how banks assess risk, how finance companies balance portfolios, and how retailers set pricing levels. They allow pathologists to identify abnormalities, engineers to control processes, logistics companies to generate schedules and financial advisors to recommend investment strategies

Common Knowledge is the most comprehensive development tool available today for representing, managing and automating business rules within your applications. The Common Knowledge product includes Common Knowledge Studio, a visual workbench for the construction, testing and maintenance of business rules, and the Common Knowledge Rules Engine, a comprehensive API that supports the rapid integration of business rules into your computer systems.

Common Knowledge Studio is a visual development environment that provides support for the capture, representation, maintenance, validation, evaluation and documentation of business rules. Using familiar formats such as decision tables and decision trees, developers, analysts and managers can work together in the representation, maintenance and integration of business rules into applications and business systems.

The Common Knowledge Rules Engine is a sophisticated set of programming tools that allow application developers to seamlessly integrate business rules created and maintained by Common Knowledge Studio, into an organisations computer systems.

This architecture encourages the separation of business rules from the computer programs in which they are typically embedded. This allows organisations to rapidly react to changing business conditions, competition, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations without the need for costly and time-consuming application redevelopment, testing and deployment.

Benefits provided by Common Knowledge include:

• The ability for all stakeholders to collaboratively define and maintain business rules in a highly visual, familiar and intuitive environment.


• The ability for an organisation to rapidly update its business rules in response to internal and external influences


• A reduction in IT development costs, maintenance costs and time-to-market for new and updated products and business systems.


• The ability to reduce losses and improve competitiveness and customer satisfaction through the accurate and repeatable application of business rules.


• The ability to share and reuse business rules across applications, departments, suppliers, customers and partners.

Japara Solutions specialises in utilising and supporting Object Connections products. We believe that Business Rules Management and Automation will become an important part of integrating your business, both with your external partners and internal systems. Find Out more.

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