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Rules-based 
Operational Decision Services
Product News and Release History
News
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							Feb 19, 2025.
							
							Release 10.5.0 integrates OpenRules with
							
							MS SharePoint and
							
							Amazon S3.  | 
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							Nov 22, 2024.
							
							Release 10.4.1 adds several useful features for building more 
							flexible JSON interfaces for OpenRules-based 
							decision services.  | 
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							May 1, 2024.
							
							Release 10.3.0 adds an ability to create complex 
							expressions using predefined functions for 
							collections of objects. Now it is also possible to 
							use external JSON files directly to test decision 
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							Jan 17, 2024.
							
							Release 10.1.0 comes with essentially enhanced
							
							RuleSolver and
							
							RuleDB, plus various improvements of the core 
							product. See
							
							Release Notes. | 
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							Sep 18-20, 2023.
							
							OpenRules presented “Declarative 
							Decision Modeling with Rule Solver" (Slides Recording) at DecisionCAMP-2023. | 
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							July 20, 2023. Release 10.0 essentially changes the internal structure of the generated Java code to support newly introduced OpenRules features such as dynamically defined decision variables with the qualifier “Of”, advanced “for-each” loops, SpringBoot 3, JDKs versions 1.8, 11, and 17+ with Jakarta, better control over case sensitivity, and more. | ||
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							Apr 23, 2023.
							Release 9.1.1 
							upgrades 3rd party software packages to prevent 
							potential vulnerabilities, adds nested loops, and a 
							few more helpful features. | 
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							Jan 23, 2023. Release 9.1.0 essentially simplifies iterations over collection of business objects. | ||
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							July 1, 2022. Release 8.5.3 adds several advanced features such as simplified iterations over collections of objects, new operators, multiple rules in CSV-based decision tables, dependency upgrades, and more. | ||
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							June 30, 2022. OpenRules presented “How Business Analysts Represent and Debug Complex Decisioning Logic” at BBC-2022 | ||
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							Apr 25, 2022. Release 8.5.2: advanced handling of CSV files with Big Tables, controlling memory size for large Decision Projects, using quotes for text values, and fixing a few bugs. | ||
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							Mar 28, 2022.
							
							Release 8.5.1 provides new reports to show the structure of complex  
							Decision Projects, upgrades of 3rd party packages. “Handling 
							Large Payloads with OpenRules-based AWS Lambda
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							Mar 1, 2022.
							
							Release 8.5.0 comes with many new features which make OpenRules Decision Manager even friendlier to subject matter experts and even faster to execute large input data sets.
							
							
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							Dec 21, 2021 -
							Jan 2, 2022.
							Release 
							8.4.3.17 
							of OpenRules Decision Manager fixes the latest Apache Log4J 
							vulneraibilities using
							Log4J 2.17.1. 
							We recommend our customers to modify their pom.xml 
							files using log4j 2.17.1 and OpenRules Decision 
							Manager 8.4.3.17. ClassicOpenRules Classic is not impacted as it uses the old Log4j 1.2.15. The latest Release 8.4.3 of Classic OpenRules upgrades its Apache POI dependency to 5.0.0.  | 
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							November 11, 2021. Release 8.4.2 essentially improves the validation and error reporting for OpenRules repositories | ||
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							August 23, 2021. Release 8.4.1 is about “Securing OpenRules Decision Services” using JWT Authentication and SSL communication | ||
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							June 25, 2021. 
							New 
							
							Release 8.4.0 essentially enhances deployment 
							capabilities including: deploying decision models as MS Azure Functions; building RESTful web services with OpenRules REST, building custom AWS Lambda functions to support CI/CD Pipelines, automatic generation of JSON test cases, 
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							April 12, 2021. New Release 8.3.2 includes a performance benchmark that demonstrates how OpenRules can execute 1,000,000 requests within 12 seconds! Read more | ||
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							March 3, 2021. 
							New 
							Release 8.3.1 includes a powerful while easy-to-use graphical 
							
							Rule Debugger oriented to business users. Watch the
							video and read 
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							January 
							24, 2021. 
							New
							Release 8.3.0 
							of OpenRules Decision Manager comes with a Graphical Integrated Decision Modeling Environment called "Decision Model Explorer". It automatically builds decision model diagrams, opens Excel files associated with different nodes, and allows business people to modify, test, and deploy their decision models from one place. Watch the video and read 
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							November 
							24, 2020. 
							ProcessMaker and OpenRules announced a new 
							partnership.  “OpenRules is recognized as the clear leader in decision systems in the world today,” said Brian Reale, Founder and CEO of ProcessMaker.  “But besides its sheer power, we loved the fact that OpenRules decision tables can be built in Excel and then uploaded to AWS with the click of a button.  There is no software to install or manage, and it works natively in ProcessMaker.  You just can’t beat that.”
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							 November 
							19, 2020. OpenRules announced  
							a new product "Rule 
							DB"  that allows business decision models to directly access relational databases with the power of SQL preserved in new Excel-based tables "DataSQL". You may 
							freely download it and try many examples from
							http://RuleDB.com. 
							Read about more advances at
							
							Release 8.2.1 Notes. | 
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							 October 
							1, 2020. OpenRules announced "SaaS Rule Learner", 
							a cloud-based tool for subject matter experts who 
							want to apply Machine Learning to generate business 
							rules from their historical data. No installation or 
							preliminary ML knowledge is required. Watch
							
							video Try it from http://SaaS.RuleLearner.com  | 
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							 August 
							25, 2020. OpenRules announced the 
							new open-sourced product "Rule Learner" available 
							for free from
							
							RuleLearner.com. It adds 
							Machine Learning capabilities to OpenRules Decision 
							Manager allowing business analysts to describe their 
							historical records in simple Excel tables and Rule 
							Learner will automatically discover business rules 
							capable to classify similar new records. See an
							
							introductiry example. Rule Learner naturally 
							supports 
							
							ever-learning decisioning processes. | 
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June 15, 2020. New 
							OpenRules Decision Manager
							Release 
							8.2.0 simplifies the installation 
							process for Windows, Mac and Linux, allows free 
							downloads of various sample projects, improves 
							decision explanations by beatifying the execution 
							protocol, and adds several more features requested 
							by our customers. Read 
							Release 
							Notes and an updated 
							User Manual | 
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							 May 11, 2020. New Release 8.1.2 of 
							OpenRules Decision Manager provides a brand new execution mechanism that improves performance of very big decision tables 10-100 times! At the same time OpenRules, Inc. cuts the run-time license fee 10 times! 
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							Apr 24, 2020. Learn how to 
							build an complete 
							Decision Optimization Service 
							available as AWS Lambda:
								 - Scheduling GUI developed mainly in Excel with OpenRules Dialog templates and deployed at AWS EC2 instance - Scheduling Decision Service developed using JavaSolver and deployed as AWS Lambda function by applying OpenRules Decision Manager's one-click deployment mechanism. Try the online "Worker Scheduler". Read more  | 
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							 Apr 2, 2020. In these uncertain times, to do our part we want to help US businesses of all types and sizes, especially health organizations to quickly make important decisions. OpenRules offers immediate assistance in creation and deployment of your decisions services. If you need a quick implementation of optimization decision services, we will help you to define and resolve your problem with the freely available Java Solver. If you want to quickly create a rules-based decision service and deploy it to AWS cloud, we will give you a 3 months free access to our SaaS Rule Engine. Contact us at support@openrules.com and we will setup a call to discuss how we can help.  | 
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							Mar 3, 2020. OpenRules Decision 
							Manager became the first
							
							SaaS Rule Engine available in 
							AWS Marketplace - see
							
							Press Release. | 
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							Oct 1, 2019. OpenRules Decision Manager 8.0.2 supports ONE-CLICK AWS LAMBDA DEPLOYMENT! Business analysts (!) now can deploy their business decision models created in Excel as AWS Lambda decision services with a simple click on “deployAWS.bat“! No coding or knowledge of AWS environment is required. 
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							 Aug 29, 2019. OpenRules 
							Decision Manager Release 8.0.1  can automatically deploys classical business decision models on-cloud as 
							AWS Lambda functions without coding. It also includes a user-friendly
							Rules Debugger.   
							Tutorial Read more  | 
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							 mechanism that is extremely 
					fast, takes almost no time to start, and essentially reduces 
					the memory footprint. It perfectly fits the requirements of 
					modern containerized decision microservices. OpenRules also announced the availability of the new release 8.0.0 of its Classic OpenRules BRDMS that includes many new features requested by customers - Release Notes 8.0.0. It is important that both products can efficiently execute the same Business Decision Models created using MS Excel or Google Sheets in accordance with OpenRules Goal-Oriented Decision Modeling approach described in this book  | 
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							July 8, 2019. 
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							May 7, 2019. OpenRules
							Release 7.0.1 
							provides support for Decision Microservices 
							incorporated into the popular
							Spring 
							framework.
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							Feb 21, 2019.
							A new OpenRules guide "Goal-Oriented 
							Decision Modeling with OpenRules" has 
							been published at
							Amazon. 
							It is oriented to business people who want to build 
							their own operational decision models. As the 
							another guide "DMN 
							in Action", it is accompanied by free evaluation software 
							available from here. Read 
							more about OpenRules Books. | 
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							Dec 31, 2018. 
							
							OpenRules, Inc. announced new
							Migration Services 
							specifically designed to help customers who want 
							migrate their existing (or new) rules-based systems 
							to OpenRules. Starting January-2019 OpenRules is essentially expanding 
							its technical support and consulting services to help customers 
							migrating to OpenRules. | 
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							Nov 6-9, 2018. 
							
							OpenRules was a sponsor and exhibitor at the major 
							annual conference
							
							BBC-2018 in San Antonio. 
							Together with our customer, a major California bank, we presented the results of 
							successful development "Replacing 
							Legacy Bank Account Management System Using Business 
							Rules" that won the
							
							first Business 
							Rules Excellence Awards (BREA).  | 
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							Oct 16, 2018. 
							
							A major California bank, facing looming regulatory 
							deadlines, needed to develop a highly dynamic web 
							application to support the bank’s complex customer 
							account management processes. The integrated use of 
							OpenRules’ s rule and rendering engines became the 
							foundation for the successful and quick 
							implementation. OpenRules nominated this real-world 
							application to the
							
							first Business 
							Rules Excellence Award. This 
							success story was selected as a
							
							winner of the 2018 Awards. 
							This is a significant achievement for the Bank and 
							OpenRules.  | 
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							Sep 17-19, 2018. OpenRules was 
							successfully presented at the
							
							DecisionCAMP-2018 and
							
							LuxLogAI in Luxembourg. See the related
							
							presentations. | 
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							 - Building and Executing Decision Models with OpenRules 7.0.0 - Goal-Oriented Business Decision Modeling with OpenRules  | 
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							June 2, 2018. Preview capabilities of the upcoming release OpenRules-7 described in the implementation of the decision model "Credit Card Application" | ||
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							Feb 18, 2018. 
							A new design of our website
							www.OpenRules.com 
							provides a better support for mobile and tablets. 
							It's loaded with cool features which hopefully will 
							be appreciated by our customers and visitors. If you 
							notice any issues, please report them to
							
							support@openrules.com. | 
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							October 25, 2017. OpenRules
							
							Release 6.4.3 generates new, more compact 
							execution reports with explanations, adds decision 
							importing to integrate loosely coupled decision 
							models, allows using lists along with arrays and 
							extends various operators on them, enhances 
							date/time manipulations and adds more features 
							requested by customers.  | 
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							May 20, 2017. OpenRules
							
							Release 6.4.2 adds new decision modeling 
							capabilities including: "DecisionTableAssign" to  
							simplify multiple assignments; 
							"DecisionTableIterate" to simplify iteration over 
							arrays of business objects; "DecisionTableSort" to 
							support array sorting.  | 
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							 Dec 20, 2016. OpenRules Release 6.4.1 introduces "Why-Analyzer", a new graphical interface that allows business analysts to analyze the results produced by their DMN-based decision models.The workspace "openrules.dmn" includes many examples completely oriented to business users without a need for any additional tool but Excel. Release 6.4.1 comes with enhanced Eclipse Plugin that supports latest Eclipse releases. It also adds support for Long variables for very large integers. See a brief video  | 
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							Nov 1-4, 2016. OpenRules 
							successfully exhibited and presented at
							
							BBC-2016 in Las Vegas. See OpenRules® 
							presentation 
							
							
							"WHY" and "WHAT-IF" Buttons for Business Decision 
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							 July 8, 2016.
							OpenRules "What-If 
							Analyzer" wins 
							
							10th International Rule Challenge Award 
							at
							
							RuleML-2016.  | 
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							 Dec 20, 2015. OpenRules Release 6.3.4 introduces a new add-on called "What-If Analyzer" that supports real-time what-if analysis of decision models by activating/deactivating business rules. A user may immediately see the changes in the affected decision variables and decision outcomes. It allows a user to find multiple and optimal solutions. It also adds support for BigDecimals.  | 
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							 Nov 2-6, 2015.
							OpenRules was an exhibitor and a presenter at
							
							BBC-2015. You may see our
							
							presentation "Good Old UServ Product Derby in 
							the Brave New World of Decision Management" and the 
							proper
							
							demonstration. See a
							
							photo from the "DMN 
							at BBC" meeting  | 
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							 May 15, 2015.
							A new
							
							
							Release 6.3.3 allows a user to generate 
							Java interfaces for decision models that already 
							were created and tested using only Excel files. It 
							also adds new features to OpenRules 
							Dialog and deprecates the global method
							dialog(). 
							We also added new standard operators and fixed 
							several bugs.  | 
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							 December 5, 2014. OpenRules
							Release 6.3.2	adds enhanced features to
							
							OpenRules Dialog for generation of highly 
							dynamic questionnaires and new decisioning and 
							problem solving capabilities requested by customers. 
							The Release 6.3.2 comes with many new sample 
							projects that demonstrate the practical use of 
							OpenRules 
							BRDMS.  | 
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							Oct-Nov, 2014. OpenRules will be a sponsor 
							and a presenter at the major international Decision 
							Management events
							
							DecisionCAMP-2014 and
							
							BBC-2014. Read
							
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							 May 18, 2014.
							
							Release 6.3.1 enhances OpenRules 
							testing facilities with automatic comparison of 
							expected and actual decision execution results, 
							handling Excel files in the XLSX format wit the 
							latest Apache POI, additional macros and other 
							features requested by customers.  | 
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							April 25, 2014. OpenRules
							
							
							Sandbox 
							has been enhanced and made more user-friendly. You 
							may select and execute standard decision models or 
							upload and execute your own models defined 
							completely in Excel. Try it from this
							
							URL.  | 
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							March 27, 
							2014.James Taylor, CEO at
							
							DecisionMgtSolutions, presented a bureau 
							strategy decision model from the
							
							DMN Primer at "bpmNext" 
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							 December 10, 2013. OpenRules Release 6.2.6 advances OpenRules BDMS with the following features: * Invocation of Sub-Decisions and Decision Tables by Name * Generating Excel Workbooks with OpenRules Decision Tables.  | 
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							October 13, 2013. OMG made 
							the 
							Decision Model and Notation (DMN) Specification 
							1.0 publicly available on Sep 26, 2013. Today 
							OpenRules
							published the first implementation of the
							
							DMN 1.0 Primer based on the Loan Origination 
							example described in the Section 10 of the 
							Specification. You may read its description
							
							here, analyze it for free and without any 
							downloads from
							
							here, or download the DMN 1.0 Primer project 
							from
							
							here and do your own experiments by changing 
							Excel-based decisions, executing the decision model, 
							and analyzing the results. | 
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							August 26, 2013. 
							
							Release 6.2.5 enhances OpenRules 
							BDMS with the following functionality: business 
							rules defined on collections of objects; decision 
							tables for comparing ranking lists; new features in 
							OpenRules-based web applications; advanced logging 
							API; fixed bugs, and more - see
							
							Release Notes  | 
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							May 9, 2013.
							OpenRules
							
							Release 6.2.4 advances 
							OpenRules BDMS with additional features initiated by 
							the real-world use of previous releases: http 
							authentication, extended date formats, use of 
							decision variables with "not applicable" values, 
							enhanced access to XML data, and more sophisticated 
							execution reports. Read
							
							Release Notes  | 
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							May 7, 2013.
							Webinar with James Taylor:
							
							Creating and Managing Executable Decision Models 
							with DecisionFirst Modeler and OpenRules | 
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							January 9, 2013. OpenRules 
							
							Release 6.2.3
							adds new features such as generation of decision 
							execution reports in the HTML format, an ability to 
							create more compact decision tables with new 
							templates, advanced interfaces for external rules, 
							and more. Read
							
							Release Notes  | 
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							October 15, 2012.
							We added a 
							tutorial "Cloud 
							Application Development" and a new project 
							workspace "openrules.cloud" with examples of 
							OpenRules
							web applications deployed on the cloud. It is 
							available as a part of the complete OpenRules
							
							installation.
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							September 24, 2012.
							OpenRules
							
							Release 6.2.2
							adds new features that allow a user to customize 
							decisions and decision runs, to create custom 
							decision tables, and to incorporate decisions in web 
							dialogs. Read
							
							Release Notes | 
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							September 12, 2012. OpenRules, Inc. successfully 
							completed two contracts with
							
							IRS related to the integrated use of machine 
							learning and business rules technologies. See what 
							IRS management says in the final
							
							report.  
							 
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							August 1, 2012. Over the 
							course of the last few years, OpenRules is 
							constantly gaining in popularity adding 
							more and more
							
							customers including large international 
							corporations and government agencies, new partners 
							and resellers worldwide. See the actual statistics 
							from 2004 to 2012 in our
							
							blog. | 
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							June 3, 2012. OpenRules Release 6.2.1 adds new functionality for Database Integration, Web Services, more decision tables operators, an optimization mode for Rule Solver ™, enhanced documentation. Release Notes. | ||
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							OpenRules, Inc. is selected to present at the World Congress on Decision Tables that is a part of the BBC 2012. As usual, OpenRules, Inc. will be a sponsor of this largest BR event. | ||
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							March 5, 
							2012. OpenRules
							Release
							
							6.2.0 adds a new inferential rule 
							engine: an enhanced
							
							Rule Solver
							provides powerful constraint-based tools for 
							decision management. OpenRules
							6.2.0 also advances the existing decision models and 
							web dialogs.  
							
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							February 28, 2012.
							
							JCP Executive Committee approved the final 
							release of the standard
							
							JSR-331 "Constraint Programming API". OpenRules 
							CTO Dr. Feldman is the Specification Lead for this 
							standard. Read
							
							more. | 
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							December 
							20, 2011. OpenRules
							Release 6.1.3 enhances OpenRules
							Executable Decisions with new functionality required 
							by real-world applications. Read
								
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							September 11, 2011. OpenRules
							Release 6.1.2 is a minor release that extends the 
							Decisioning functionality and fixes several bugs 
							found in the latest releases. Read
							
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							August 8, 2011. OpenRules Release 6.1.1 advances the Executable Decisions by providing new features, the detailed user manual and new tutorials, and fixing some bugs. Read more | ||
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							July 5, 2011. Forrester Research: "OpenRules have the most-aggressive approaches to business-expert authoring and typically requires less developer support than IBM ILOG, FICO Blaze Advisor, and JBoss BRMS." Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms 2011 | ||
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							May 12, 
							2011. James 
							Taylor published articles devoted to OpenRules® 
							BRMS: - General Overview - Rule Solver - Rule Learner.  | 
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							October 26, 2010. OpenRules Release 5.4.1 introduces a new version of Rule Solver that allows a user to define and solve constraint satisfaction and optimization problems. | ||
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							October 17-21, 2010. OpenRules and General Intelletics presented "Large Scale Intelligent Checklists with OpenRules BRMS" at The Business Rules Forum, Washington DC. | ||
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							October 14, 2010.	KPI 
							and OpenRules 
							ran a successful
							boot 
							camp at the
							
							 RulesFest in San 
							Jose. 
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							October 13, 2010. OpenRules presented a new experimental framework "Connecting the Dots" at the RulesFest-2010 | ||
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							September 22, 2010.
							
							Java Community Process
							(JCP) announced today at JavaOne Conference in San 
							Francisco that JSR-331 "Constraint Programming API" 
							won JCP Award "The 
							Most Innovative JSR of 2010".					
							OpenRules CTO Jacob Feldman is the Specification 
							Lead of this JSR. A newly redesigned
							
							
							Rule Solver will be based on the JSR-331. | 
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							July 29, 2010. 							
							
							Knowledge Partners 
							International, LLC and OpenRules, Inc. 
							announced that they will jointly present a
							
							live primer of The Decision Model at the
							
							RulesFest in October 
							2010. See 
							
							press release.
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							July 10, 2010. OpenRules, Inc. successfully completed the IRS contract "Machine Learning Models Research and Development with NRP and LMSB Data" | ||
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							June 29, 2010. OpenRules Release 5.4.0 provides a live primer for the Decision Model, support for password-protected Excel files, and a few enhancements and bug fixes. | ||
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							May 20, 2010. OpenRules and Knowledge Partners International will host an Executable Decision Model bootcamp at the RulesFest in October 2010. | ||
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							May 11-13, 2010. OpenRules successfully conducted hands-on training at The Wyndham Garden Hotel, Newark Airport, NJ. OpenRules expresses its appreciation to a new customer Nishikawa Corporation for supporting this event. | ||
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							December-2009. OpenRules 
							BRMS has been selected by
							
							Arc Worldwide, which
							
							provides marketing services to such clients as Procter 
							& Gamble,
							United 
							Airlines, and
							McDonald's.
							
							
							
							
							Arc Worldwide develops and 
							manages direct marketing and promotional campaigns 
							and point-of-sale marketing efforts. Arc operates 
							through more than 40 offices located around the 
							world. It is a unit of
							Leo 
							Burnett, a global ad agency of 
							French conglomerate. | 
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							September 20, 2009. OpenRules 
							is proud to announce that
							
							
							the United States Internal Revenue Service 
							(IRS) awarded OpenRules, Inc. with a new government 
							contract "Machine 
							Learning Models Research and Development with NRP 
							and LMSB Data.
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							September 4, 2009. OpenRules, 
							Inc. became an official supplier of BRMS software 
							and services for
							
							Fiserv, Inc., 
							the world’s largest service provider to banks, 
							credit unions, and lending institutions. 
							OpenRules 
							effectively supports Fiserv's 
							financial electronic commerce services including 
							receiving and paying bills online through 15,000 
							retail outlets. | 
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							July 1, 2009. OpenRules 
							
							Rel 
							 ease 
							5.3.1 
							improves OpenRules effectiveness in multi-threaded 
							environments by supporting real parallelism.
							  Read 
							
							more.
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							June 24, 2009.
							OpenRules announced a fast-support online service 
							
							
							Live Assist. Upon your request an 
							OpenRules expert conducts a remote session 
							addressing your particular problem by studying it 
							with you on your own computer.  | 
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							May 2, 2009. OpenRules, Inc.
							
							successfully completed 
							Phase 2 of the government contract “Integrating 
							Machine Learning Models With Business Rules 
							Environment” issued by the National 
							Headquarters Office of Research,
							
							Internal Revenue Service (IRS).   | 
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							March 16, 2009. The new
							
							Release 5.3.0 
							introduces 
							
							External Rules, allowing a user to 
							create and maintain business rules outside Excel 
							files: in DB, XML, GUI, Java, and custom sources. 
							Read 
							
							
							
							more. | 
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							March 
							4, 2009. OpenRules has 
							been nominated as a finalist for the Best Developer 
							Tool category of the
							
							Eclipse Community Awards.
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							January 20, 2009. 
							
							
							OpenRules 
							5.2
							
							provides 
							an important update for the underlying Apache POI
							
							
							API that is used to access Microsoft format files. 
							The new release 
							switches 
							to the latest 
							
							POI 3.2 FINAL. Read more 
							
							
							here.
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							December 8, 2008. OpenRules CTO 
							presented "A 
							Unified Business Interface for Modeling and Solving 
							Constraint Satisfaction Problems" 
							at the 
							
							OMG Technical Meeting 
							in Santa Clara, CA | 
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							October 26-30, 2008. 
							OpenRules was a sponsor at the
							
							11th Business Rules Forum
							
							in Orlando 
							with two successful 
							presentations: 1)
							Integrated Business Rules and Constraint Programming 
							Technologies for EDM;  2)
							Applying Business Rules to Complex Patent Data 
							Processing - EPO Experience | 
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							October 22-25, 2008.
							OpenRules participated in 
							
							
							October Rules Fest 
							in Dallas presenting "Using 
							Constraint Programming in Business Rules 
							Environments"  | 
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							September 12, 2008. 
							The US Internal Revenue Service
							(IRS) awarded OpenRules, Inc. with a new contract. 
							The new contract is the second phase of the 
							successfully completed project Integrating 
							Machine Learning Models With Business Rules 
							Environment” 
							issued by the National Headquarters Office of 
							Research, Washington DC | 
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							August 25, 2018.
							
							OpenRules 5.1.0
							simplifies the creation and maintenance of 
							enterprise-class business rules repositories. Using 
							advanced rule templates, OpenRules customers may 
							specify rules implementation logic in a few 
							templates and reuse it in multiple business rules 
							categories.  With 5.1 you may define default 
							rules directly in templates, support partial 
							rules implementations and optional rule 
							conditions and actions making rules repository more 
							stable and flexible. | 
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							June 1, 2008.
							OpenRules has published 
							
							Step-By-Step Tutorials for different 
							development frameworks including
							
							
							Google GWT, Spring, Apache Tomcat, BEA 
							WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and RAD. | 
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							April 20, 2008. 
							
							
							OpenRules
							5.0.2
							is a minor release that adds more functionality to 
							the JSR-94 reference implementation, restores JDK 
							1.4 backward compatibility, and fixes some bugs | 
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							European Patent Office
							and OpenRules will do the presentation "Applying 
							Business Rules to Complex Patent Data Processing - 
							EPO Experience" 
							at
							
							The 11th International Business 
							Rules Forum | 
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							January 14, 2008.
							Release
							
							4.1.2 provides 
							important bug fixes for handling Excel dates and 
							merged cells - read
							
							release notes | 
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							has 
							successfully completed 
							November 13, 2007. OpenRules, Inc.
							has 
							successfully completed 
							successfully completed 
							the US IRS contract “Automating 
							Business Rules Creation Using Machine Learning 
							Models” issued by the National 
							Headquarters Office of Research,
							
							Internal Revenue Service (IRS).  
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							more | 
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							October 
							29, 2007. Dennis Byron, 
							Analyst,
							
							ebizQ, published a 
							review "Open Source Business Intelligence 
							Megatrends", in which he describes
							
							OpenRules Rules-based BI: 
							"OpenRules is an example of a rules-based OSS BI 
							application. It offers a methodology, along with OSS 
							tools and professional services for business 
							analysts rather than or in concert with developers. 
							This is an interesting approach and an approach that 
							will be important in the long run to grow all 
							categories of OSS applications." Read the entire 
							
							review | 
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							October 21-24, 
							2007. OpenRules, Inc.'s booth was among the most popular 
							places at the 
							10th Business Rules Forum in Orlando, FL. 
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							more | 
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							October 10, 2007.
							OpenRules announced 
							
							Rule Compressor, 
							a new add-on that employs integrated machine 
							learning and business rules 
							
							techniques to automatically compress 
							complex classification rules.  Rule Compressor 
							may effectively minimize the number of rules and/or 
							simplify their structure by automatically 
							discovering new thresholds and eliminating 
							non-essential attributes.  OpenRules offers
							
							
							rules compression and optimization services 
							regardless of the rule engine being used by the 
							customer. | 
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							September 28, 
							2007. 
							
							
							Vero Insurance New Zealand 
							selected OpenRules for its enterprise-class business 
							rules management system.  Vero subscribed to 
							OpenRules technical support and acquired a package 
							of OpenRules commercial licenses | 
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							September 
							20, 2007. OpenRules
							
							
							
							Release 4.1.1
							is a minor release that adds new features mainly to 
							OpenRules Forms and tunes OpenRules to work with the 
							latest versions of 3rd party products | 
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							May 18, 2007.
							OpenRules signed a licensing and support agreement 
							with
							
							Thomson Global Resources,
							a leading global 
							provider of integrated solutions in the 
							fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, 
							scientific research and healthcare. The agreement 
							allows
							
							Thomson Medstat to use and distribute OpenRules® 
							as a business rules repository for
							
							Advantage Suite®, a 
							powerful, decision support tool linked to a 
							comprehensive, integrated warehouse of medical 
							claims and encounter data, pharmaceutical drug 
							utilization, eligibility information, and 
							performance measures.  | 
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							March 2, 2007. 
							
							
							Software House International 
							(SHI) 
							became an official OpenRules reseller with the sale 
							of OpenRules
							commercial licenses and support packages to
							
							Blue Shield of California.
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							February 
							7, 2007.
							Business Rules Journal published  "Business 
							Rules Forum 
							2006 Vendor Panel ~ The Future is Now". 
							Six BR vendors including OpenRules shared their 
							vision of the future and the very real possibilities 
							of today. Read
							
							here | 
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							November 
							15, 2006. 
							
							
							
							Dresdner Bank 
							acquired OpenRules 
							support packages and commercial licenses for its 
							enterprise-class financial application. | 
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							November 5-9, 2006.
							OpenRules successfully presented Open Source Rules 
							at the 
							9th Business Rules Forum in Washington, 
							DC. Read 
							
							more | 
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							November 1, 2006. 
							
							Visitar announced 
							360° Care viaVisitar 
							Version 2.0 for innovative customer relationship 
							management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA) 
							solutions that link rich telephony capabilities with 
							business applications to improve efficiency and 
							enhance customer and employee interactions. Core 
							interaction capabilities of Visitar solutions are 
							based on OpenRules®. 
							See
							
							presentation | 
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							October 
							17, 2006. OpenRules, 
							Inc. has been awarded a government contract “Automating 
							Business Rules Creation Using Machine Learning 
							Models” issued by the National 
							Headquarters Office of Research,
							
							Internal Revenue Service (IRS) | 
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							August 25, 2006. A major 
							international bank successfully completed 
							development of an OpenRules-based engine 
							that drives risk calculation and security rules for 
							a strategic application within the bank.
							
							Contact us for 
							details and references.  | 
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							March 27, 2006. 
							Raleigh, NC.
							
							Visitar 
							announced general availability of its SaaS service 
							that uses OpenRules for interactive configuration of 
							its multi-tenant product that integrates CRM with 
							computer telephony.   | 
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							May 
							20, 2006.
							OpenRules, Inc. introduced a 
							
							
							Jump-Start service designed to make a 
							customer team productive and self-sufficient with 
							OpenRules as quickly as possible.  The service 
							is available for US and European customers | 
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							February 6, 2006. 
							
							
							OpenRules  
							 2.3.0 
							enhances web development tools and upgrades 3rd 
							party tools. | 
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							November 01, 2005.
							
							OpenRules 
							2.2.1 supports JDK 5.0 and Eclipse 
							3.1 and includes a Java library to support dynamic 
							dialogs. | 
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							October 5, 2005. 
							
							
							
							OpenRules at the International Business Rules Forum
							
							in Orlando 
							on November 6-10, 2005. | 
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							September 7, 2005.
							
							OpenRules 
							2.2.0
							essentially simplifies integration with different 
							web application servers | 
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							August 8, 
							2005.
							OpenRules published an implementation of "LoanDynamics", 
							a web application that supports a dynamic loan 
							approval process and demonstrates the ability to 
							dynamically add/delete/modify different securities 
							related to an initial loan application. | 
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							May 6, 
							2005.
							
							Big Faceless Organization (BFO), the 
							leading global provider of Java reporting solutions, 
							announces partnership with OpenRules, Inc. | 
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							May 5,2005. 
							
							OpenRules  
							2.1.0 
							improves Web Interaction and multi-platform support. | 
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							April 18, 2005. 
							
							GraphiteStore.com
							Web services into its new online marketplace.  | 
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							November 8-11, 2004. 
							OpenRules 
							successfully exhibited at the International Business 
							Rules Forum in Las Vegas | 
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							November 
							5, 2004. OpenRules 
							
							 
							Release 1.1 is available for free downloads. 
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							October 
							30, 2004. 	OpenRules 
							delivers to IRS a new phase of the Strategic 
							Compliance Planning Model (SCPM).   | 
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							May 28,	2004. A new 
							enhanced OpenRules Release 1.0.2 has been announced.
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							May 6, 2004. GraphiteStore.com selected OpenRules to enhance its 
							online marketplace. | 
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							April 19,2004. A new 
							OpenRules Release 1.0.1 is available for downloads. | 
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							November 8, 2003. OpenRules 
							has been successfully used for a complex loan 
							approval application. See a 
							
							presentation
							at the 6th Business Rules Forum
							(adjusted to OpenRules).  | 
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							November 1, 2003.
							A beta release of OpenRules is available upon 
							requests. | 
						

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