Re: RIF Use Case

Daniel Selman wrote:
> I hope this is not too late… A RIF use scenarios that would be of 
> interest to our customers:
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> 
> *Import of Business Rules Defined by a Business Partner into ILOG JRules*
> 
> Joe is a business analyst for a company that offers home loans. Before 
> approving an application for a home loan Joe must ensure that the loan 
> can be underwritten by one of the major loan underwriting services. The 
> loan underwriting service has a set of complex business rules that 
> determine the structure of the data that can be submitted for automated 
> processing. Previously a significant number of applications were 
> rejected by the automated underwriting service because they violated 
> these business rules. To improve the efficiency of his business and 
> provide faster feedback to his customers Joe downloads the underwriting 
> service’s validation rules in the Rule Interchange Format. He runs the 
> “/ILOG JRules RIF Import Wizard/” and maps these RIF business rules onto 
> his existing JRules elements. JRules creates new business rules in the 
> rule repository based on the structure of the RIF document. Joe is now 
> capable of prescreening customer data prior to submitting it to the 
> underwriting service. Joe subscribes to a mailing list to receive 
> notifications from the underwriting service when an updated RIF document 
> is published and will go into effect. Upon receiving a notification Joe 
> reruns the “/ILOG JRules RIF Import Wizard/” to update his ILOG JRules 
> business rules.
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>  
> Dan