Rules management in the ideal system
Business rules are predicates that apply to data to help implement real-world decisions made that are necessary for the business. For example, you may state that a customer cannot be sent a product so long as they have not checked their bank coordinates. This is a business rule as it can be expressed without any signs of software implementation: this could be done manually by someone in the plant checking with accounting via phone that the rule has been respected via p before sending the package to the customer.
Rules as the nervous network of the information system
If data is the blood of the information system, business rules are its nervous and muscular networks: they use the blood to realize some activities in a given way. A business rule in our metaphor could be that “if you feel a burning sensation on your finger, the arm must retract.” This rule is implemented in our spinal reflex system, which uses the sensors in its...
