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policies are ultimately implemented as part of critical business applications. Rule Writers are experts in
business logic and manage executable business rules within an organization. Rule Writers are responsible for writing
and/or enforcing the business policies of a given enterprise.
In a BRMS, Rule Writers participate in the initial process of extracting business
rules from existing policy (documents, databases, etc.). This process, referred to as rule capture, is carried out with
the business analyst whose aim is to determine the vocabulary elements that are necessary to be able to write the rules
that implement the policy. During the rule set development life cycle the Rule Writer will use different authoring
environments: he uses an Integrated Development Environment like Eclipse to develop the structure of the
rules set, the first set of rules, the technical rules, and he can test the execution of the rules in this environment.
Once the rule set is mature enough Rule Writer will use a web based BRMS platform. The advantage of the web based for
rule authoring is the ubiquitous access, and the use of wizards to guide the management of the rules and the rule
sets.
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