A development of business rules with decision tables for business processes

At present, business rules and business processes are increasingly significant for organizations. Business processes enable organization to quickly respond to changes and align with business objectives. Business rules enable organization to decouple business logic from the applications. However, the people who truly know the business rules like business managers essentially implement the business rules through software developers. This may cause the business rules used in IT systems not align with organization goals and lack of agility to change. This paper presents a method that enables the business managers to create and edit the business rules themselves by constructing decision tables as a guideline and exposing them as web services in BPEL (business process execution language) to support the expected business processes.