Corticon and DST Bring Together Business Rules and BPM 
DST Technologies and Corticon are jointly selling DST’s Automated Work Distributor business process management (BPM) solution and Corticon’s business rules engine. The companies sell to a number of industries including financial services, insurance and healthcare.
DST Technologies and Corticon are jointly selling DST’s Automated Work Distributor business process management (BPM) solution and Corticon’s business rules engine. The companies sell to a number of industries including financial services, insurance and healthcare.
AWD is an application aimed to promote better collaboration among people, process and content in ways to reduce risk and improve customer service, according to DST vice president John Vaughn.
The AWD BPM solution brings together all operational components to create harmony and collaboration among all the players. AWD provides control over managing and meeting service levels and service quality, to ensure commitments are met. It also helps reduce operational costs by allowing users to easily design new processes or improve existing ones. AWD supports compliance with regulatory requirements or quality standards.
Corticon’s rule engine technology helps companies deliver tight application development times, frequent change cycles, and complex integrations with existing development environments, according to
Corticon CEO Mark Allen. Corticon offers a patented “no-coding” rules engine to automate businesses processes in ways that help organizations more quickly adapt to change, he added.
Other features of Corticon’s business rules engine include:
- Performance to deliver millisecond response times and easily scales to support millions of transactions per day.
- Scalability, as the engine is powered by a patented "design-time" algorithm, performance scales linearly regardless of the number of rules and complexity of data.
- Accuracy and Integrity, driven by rule integrity features that ensure the right decisions are made at the right time. New visual representations, vocabulary enhancements and variance testing ensure data integrity.
- Ease of Use via a set of spreadsheet-like modeling tools which make it simple to implement changes with unprecedented speed and accuracy and a model-driven approach to enable business analysts and policy makers to model and deploy business rules without programming.
- Integration through APIs and integration with open-source development environments to allow partners and customers to incorporate the Corticon rules engine into their IDEs and end solutions.
Merging AWD’s capabilities with Corticon’s powerful business rules engine will enable the companies to deliver the best solutions for even the most sophisticated customers, according to both executives.
“As business processes become more dynamic, Corticon’s rules engine will enable us to deliver more powerful, process-based solutions that enable clients to leapfrog to the next level of business optimization,” DST’s Vaughn said in a statement. “With this agreement, we see exciting possibilities for extending our value proposition within the markets we serve,” Corticon’s Allen added.
At least one analyst firm is high on combining BPM and business rules management.
David McCoy, Managing Vice President and Gartner Fellow Emeritus, said in a statement: “Because processes must be decision-driven, and decisions must be made in context of overarching processes, Gartner considers the combination of business process management [BPM] and business rule management [BRMS] to be a practical synergy that exploits the powers of each discipline in a true ‘win-win,’”
