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You think that authoring business rules is difficult? If you attend a decision management show, you will likely hear many business analysts share their frustration while struggling with their first rules project. For instance, I remember vividly ever-lasting conversations aimed at defining what a rule is. As a consequence, I made it my personal mission to address this challenge. Business analysts should be able to log into their decision management tool and feel confident.

Clearly, authoring decision logic is not rocket science, but the tooling you use plays an important role. In other words, if that tool looks like a software development environment, it will only feel intuitive to software developers, which, as a business person, you might consider rocket science! Overall, look for advanced capabilities that support what you need, as a business analyst:

• Get started writing Business Rules intuitively in the context of data
• Adapt your view depending on the task at hand, switching from text to a decision table, tree or graph
• Combine business rules with very large MS Excel spreadsheets for efficient lookups
• Design a business app, for those that need to access the decision logic in their own terms

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