Rule based systems made easy

So what is a rule based system?

A system where the rules define "what" needs to be done.

Application software interprets and processes the rules.

The rules evolve as the business evolves without altering the software.

The essence of business rules is described in essence of business rules

The concepts of the QBQ^® rule based facilites are defined in concepts

QBQ^® has developed generic rule based applications to perform common operations. These are:

• QBQ Informed Questions:
  An interactive system that poses questions through an HCI. With each response, QIQ applies validation rules to the information supplied and rules to determine the next question to pose and hence the next item of information to be acquired.


• QBQ Informed Browser:
  A datawalk^® facility that allows an interactive interrogation of an eletronic data store, driven by the information in the data store rather than its data structure.


• QBQ Information Presentation:
  A facility to present data from any source, in the form required in a target. The target may be eloquent prose, XML/HTML, a specific data structure etc.


• QBQ Information Reconciliation:
  A facility to define as equivalent, an item of information in one data store found using the QBQ Informed Browser, and another item of information in a different data store found using the QBQ Informed Browser.