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Featured Member Plugin Visual Rules Enterprise Platform 4.5: Available now 
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Visual Rules Enterprise Platform 4.5: Available now

Version: 4.5
Support Eclipse Version: 3.4 - 3.2
License: Commercial
Development Status: Mature
Company: Innovations Softwaretechnologie
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Visual Rules is an especially intuitive and high-performance Business Rules Management System for creating and managing business rules. Business logic is modeled, tested, monitored and managed in a simple but powerful graphical interface. Visual Rules covers the complete rule management process. Via a uniquely comprehensive graphical modeling approach, Visual Rules provides an advanced collaboration platform for business analysts and IT.

Visual Rules is designed for integration of rule management into applications and Eclipse-based platforms.


Top Reasons For Choosing Visual Rules
- Model business logic graphically - no need to learn a script
- Create business rules via drag & drop of descriptive icons
- Test-driven and iterative approach
- Profiling function for business rules included
- Automatic documentation of rule projects
- Integrated process support
- Powerful collaboration platform for business & IT
- Maximum performance and scaleability
- Hot deployment while executing
- A diversity of extension points for integration into applications and platforms


Visual Rules 4.4.1: What's new?

Visual Rules Modeler 4.5
* New versioning and definition of dependencies between rule projects
* Dynamic dependency resolution between projects and/or artifacts from an artifact repository (e.g. Apache Archiva)
* Support for Maven project layouts
* Reuse of rule models inside of JARs (rule artifacts)
* New test suite editor for definition and execution of multiple tests
* Import of decision tables from Excel
* Copy&paste of data into and out of test editor
* Service mocking during test execution
* Rule model and test refactoring when deleting elements (particularly input/output data, attributes etc.)
* Manual overrides within the "Automatic Element Creation" dialog
* Recategorized built-in functions

Visual Rules QA & Deployment Tools 4.5
* Full Maven support, including storage of rule artifacts in Maven artifact repositories
* Maven plugins for model validation, creation of rule code, WSDL and rule artifacts, and deployment
* Support for rule artifacts (JARs with rule code and rule models) for dependency resolution, for deployment, but also for modeling in Visual Rules Modeler (see above)
* New Ant task for Execution Server deployments

Visual Rules Execution Server 4.5
* Dynamic routing of requests to rule models (based on metadata)
* Support for external databases
* Creation and retrieval of execution statistics for traceability


Visual Rules Team Server 4.5
* Support for external databases
* Improved performance


Download Visual Rules

Visual Rules 4.5 & older versions: New & Noteworthy.

The license is free for a 30 day evaluation phase and for non-commercial, research based organizations (Universities, not-for-profit corporations).


Added on: 02-Mar-2004 | Updated: 07-Jul-2009




Last 4 Comments


User: AnonymousRating: 92008-10-17 04:59:08
Working vell, very easy to handle


User: AnonymousRating: 92007-11-07 06:22:44
nice graphical business rules engine


User: AnonymousRating: 82006-10-28 18:33:25
Worked with it a while ago and like it


User: AnonymousRating: 32004-03-14 04:00:11
very poorly designed