These white papers introduce you to the benefits of using WebSphere ILOG Business Rule Management Systems within your organization as well as to some business usages.

• Why Business Rules?: A Case for Business Users of Information Technology (PDF)
  The relationship between business and IT can frequently consist of miscommunication, misunderstanding and frustration. Part of the disconnect between IT and business groups is often based on a natural disparity between the work cycles of the two groups.
  
  This white paper is an introduction to how business rule management systems bridge the gap between business people and IT groups. It details the benefits to non technical profiles in particular.
  
  
• Agile Decision Services: How IBM ILOG’s Business Rule Management System Helps Organizations Deliver Fast Time to Value for Business and IT (PDF)
  This white paper explores the challenges that organizations face in trying to deliver quick time-to-value for IT projects and achieve the status of ‘agile enterprise’. It illustrates how IBM WebSphere ILOG Business Rule Management System (BRMS) facilitates the alignment of IT with business groups and supports the implementation of an agile decision service (ADS) to provide business value within months of project adoption.
  
  
• Moving Toward Customer-Centric Pricing: From Strategy to Implementation (PDF)
  Pricing is a strategic weapon for acquiring new customers and, just as importantly, retaining existing ones. As such, effective and innovative pricing strategies are crucial for banks to achieve organic growth. This white paper argues that in the current economic downturn, banks need technologies such as business rule management systems (BRMS) to effectively manage their pricing policies.
  
  
• Fraud Prevention and Detection for Credit and Debit Card Transactions (PDF)
  Discover the value business rule management systems (BRMS) bring to fraud detection.
  
  
• The Business Rule approach to Payment Transformation (PDF)
  Discover why the IBM WebSphere ILOG Business Rule Management System (BRMS) is a key software platform to support vital elements of payment transformation.