Business Rules Extraction

Business rules help make sense of it all by providing clear guidance and a sound, scaleable basis to effectively manage and modernize Legacy systems!

“It’s important because it helps you define a core understanding as to what is going on and why so you can modernize and move into a new system,” he said. “It gives you a point of time of the business rules – what they are and how you are going to meet the business and technical requirements. It’s like a gap analysis. It determines what your ‘as-is’ is before you move forward.”

Chris Cruz
Chief Deputy Director of Operations
California Department of Technology
Techwire Magazine, Fall 2015

“I have always found the notion of Automated Documentation and Business Rule Extraction (BRE) of Legacy Applications quite fascinating and full of promise. Upon trying different approaches, I have come to realize that using automated tools, such as Composer Solutions Advantage has a huge upside that many Government CIO’s have neglected to leverage. It provides reduction in risk and cost for traditional large, high-risk Modernization, Replacement or COTS projects that litter California State Governments Failed-IT Project landscape.”

Dale Jablonsky
Former CIO EDD and CALPERS

Composer Advantage Business Rules Extraction (BRE) is a systematic approach of identifying and extracting all essential business logic from legacy systems. This business logic is formatted as detailed business rules (including platform-specific rules), which are stored in the accessible Knowledge Base for further modernization and maintenance analysis, reporting and/or forward engineering as required by the Business.

FEATURES:

Classification Assignments create a coding structure to be used in mapping rules to business processes, policies and/or other classifications.
Relevancy Determination enables users to segregate rules that are business relevant.
Variable Name Translations can be added to improve understanding of variables and their usage.
Business Terminology can be added to improve understanding of selected source code paragraphs.
Multi-level Annotation enables users to add English Knowledge Notes that provide clear understanding for modernization projects, M&O and business users.
Re-Purpose Business Rules into specific formats for BRE and BPM software packages.