Create rich and dynamic rule driven business process applications with the Bonita Open Solution BPM Suite. Learn how to add business rules to your process transitions easily with decision tables in the Bonita Studio for process modeling, and for more complex rules, use the Drools Connector to call shared rules.

1. Developing Complex
Business Rules with
Drools Integration
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2. WELCOME: MEET YOUR HOSTS
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3. AGENDA
Bonita Open Solution Overview
How Business Rules Support
Business Decisions
Examples of Use Cases
Live Demo of Business Rules & Drools
Integration
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4. WHO ARE WE?
Background on BonitaSoft
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11. Business Decisions
and Business Rules

12. BUSINESS PROCESS DEFINED
A business process is a
flow of decision-
coordinated
activities, conducted by
participants and acting
on data, information and
knowledge that reach a
goal.

13. WHY BUSINESS RULES
Protects against inconsistent data
Saves time by removing need for
human calculations and interactions
Knowledge transfer and centralized
Knowledge repositories

14. SCENARIOS FOR BUSINESS RULES
• General rules that apply to all business activities
• Specific rules that only apply to specific situations or transactions
• Rules that constrain transactions between business entities or processes
• Rules that define or constrain relationships between business entities or
processes
• Rules that define or constrain business events
• Rules the derive business facts
• Rules that require certain actions in specific situations
• Rules that forbid certain actions in specific situations

15. Real World
Examples

16. REAL WORLD EXAMPLE
Old Dominion University uses business rules to route
account request tickets to various stakeholders and
departments.
An account may need supervisor, budget unit
director, data owner, system owner approval or any
combination of the above. Some requests might only
need supervisor approval while others require data
and/or system owner approval.
Read the complete case study: STREAMLINING THE
ACCOUNT REQUEST PROCESS AT OLD DOMINION
UNIVERSITY

17. REAL WORLD EXAMPLE
An Insurance Company
This company uses Bonita Open Solution to manage
standard insurance claims processing. Hundreds of
scanned requests are received daily and routed to the
appropriate customer service claims processor via
complex business rules built into Bonita’s Java based
engine.

18. Demo Overview

19. OVERVIEW OF PROCESS IN DEMO
Scenario: A Procurement Process
A supplier calculates the discounts for their product depending on
the value of a contract. The rates are:
• 10% for a contract with a value of more than $50,000
• 5% discount for a contract between $10 and $50,000
• No discount if the contract is less than $10,000
After negotiated, the cost for shipping their product in the United
States based on three US geographies:
• East Coast ($100), West Coast ($200) and Mid West ($300)
After this, the tax rate is calculated based on these respective
geographies:
• East Coast (7%), West Coast (8.5%) and Mid West (6%)

20. RULES APPLIED IN DEMO EXAMPLE
Calculate discount (%)
Calculate shipping
Calculate tax

21. STEPS
Show the
resulting
Apply the
Model the Drools Generate list of fact
Construct Get input rules on
Procureme Iimplement the list of with the
condition parameter the list of
nt Process ation facts rules
facts
applied to
them

22. HOW TO CONSTRUCT DROOLS
BUSINESS RULES IN BOS
• Data Model
• Write drl (rule) file
• Build Knowledge Base
• Model the process based application
• Configure Drools connector

23. Live Demo!

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