Decreased response times—act on threats and opportunities while there is time.

Traditional Business Intelligence systems are focused on processing and analyzing historical data and reporting on business situations after they have occurred. Traditional methods of analysis and reporting use graphs, charts and accounts of historical events.

RuleCore adds the capability to instantly react to business activities as they happen, thus reducing reaction latency. It's like having continuously running reports which generate actionable alerts instantly whenever something interesting or threatening happens. Management of exceptional conditions can be started quickly in order to initiate counteraction responses before the situation gets out of control.

For example, front-line staff has an enormously important role in the operational decision-making process. A typical day includes keeping track of a large number of situations which are expected to happen and which need swift and decisive action as they happen. Keeping track of thousands of concurrently executing processes and the sequence of events they consist of is labor intensive and requires focus and deep concentration to achieve a high degree of quality.

The ruleCore CEP Server delivers relief by keeping track of interesting situations and providing notifications when, for example, a customer needs immediate attention depending on a detected situation.

Continuously monitor the activities of business entities and receive alerts instantly when improper behavior is detected.

The ruleCore CEP Server utilizes powerful reaction rules to track & trace the behavior of business entities. Each rule actively tracks one or several business entities and triggers alerts when a high-value situation is detected.

Each reaction rule describes one rule or regulation that needs immediate action when breached or a business situation that a business manager is interested in detecting. By reacting early you are equipped to make timely, intelligent decisions that lead to greater profitability and increased customer satisfaction. The ruleCore Server lets you be instantly aware of issues no matter how complex the event sequences that led to them.

For example, a service organization has, at any given time, a number of service level agreements which must be fulfilled. New agreements are added and old ones are modified and deleted on a daily basis. To manually monitor compliance to all these agreements is difficult and tedious. It also diverts resources from actually delivering value to the customers.

The ruleCore CEP Server provides an ideal platform to track and monitor the behavior of any business entity or IT infrastructure component in order to get an early warning on compliance violations. A combination of events from multiple sources can be used to detect complex situations which have been known to lead to problems in complying with agreed service levels. By detecting these situations early, actions can be taken to avoid compliance breach or at least limit the effects of one.

Business Event Fusion

Many valuable business situations simply cannot be detected by considering events from a single business application. The ruleCore CEP Server provides powerful Business Event Fusion capabilities.

Business event fusion is the process of combining events from disparate business systems. The resulting situational awareness and situational detection capabilities are superior compared to individually processing these events.

The ruleCore CEP Server contains advanced event fusion functionality for combining several independent event streams into a single unified event stream, providing for simpler rule design and adding flexibility by decoupling event sources from rule design.

The unified business situation detection model of ruleCore CEP Server allows sequences of business events to be combined into complex situations independent of their origin. The same type of events can even be generated by multiple systems. Multiple order intake systems could, for example, publish 'new order' events.

The evaluation model of ruleCore provides source-independent situational tracking and events can freely be combined from multiple internal business systems, from IT infrastructure, from web sites, RSS feeds, and other external sources. Monitoring the security of critical assets can be enhanced by considering events from multiple sensors and applications. Entry systems, login procedures and access to business systems can all generate events which can be used in combination to detect intrusion or unauthorized access. For example, if an event is received notifying that a user logs into a desktop workstation prior to physically entering the building, it's a strong indication of unauthorized access.

Process-centric Approach to Operational Intelligence

Provides a flexible and powerful core for adding support for monitoring business processes and their underlying activities. Multiple aspects of a process execution can be monitored in real-time, and thousands of process instances can be monitored simultaneously. The execution behavior of multiple related processes can be tracked and instant alerts generated with a summary of the exceptional condition needing attention from business operations staff, applications or process owners enabling proactive control of your business in real-time.

Easy and quick to integrate with existing business systems without disturbing ongoing business.

The ruleCore CEP Server is designed to provide reactive services in a larger, event-based enterprise architecture. Its simple and unintrusive approach to integration is based on open standards such as XML and JMS. The input and output interfaces are open and free to use by third party applications. The event I/O integration layer of ruleCore can be configured to support any integration methodology. Flexible customization options allows for easy adaption to any business requirement or technical infrastructure.

The core can be extended using dynamic plug-in modules, providing flexibility for industry specific solutions.