SC Regulator

Many attempts have been made to develop "rules engines," "knowledge bases," "artificial intelligence systems," and even "thinking machines" to facilitate the development of business applications. Most of these attempts end up in Never-Never Land with impossibly slow programs or impractical large "knowledge bases."

In the meantime, business must go on. So instead languages like Cobol and C or C++ continue to get used to build real applications. ShouldersCorp has found a middle ground. We haven't built a "thinking machine" or even a "rules engine." We have developed a stylized way of writing Java, which effectively externalizes business rules so that the same rules can be used by multiple applications. Then we have constructed a tool, which enforces the use of these rules across multiple applications. The result is that rules get written in standard language, but done in such a way that they are only written once and used many times.

ShouldersCorp has tested this tool, the SC Regulator, in a major commercial application, which supports more than 1000 rules supporting millions of individual data records. This set of externalized rules is used without modification by several other batch programs, which require the same business rules.

We're convinced that a variety of insurance, risk management, and retail banking applications could gain significant advantage from such a system architecture and supporting tools.

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