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Haley Systems Launches HaleyAuthority 5.0 For .NET, Java Apps

Haley Systems Inc announced the release of HaleyAuthority 5.0, the industry's only business rules management tool for both .NET and Java environments. HaleyAuthority uniquely empowers business and IT users to develop applications collaboratively while eliminating 2 of the 5 steps in changing rules when business conditions change. HaleyAuthority 5.0 offers natural language authoring and automatic code generation for .NET and Java applications, along with a patent-pending rules methodology that significantly simplifies rules management. HaleyAuthority 5.0 also offers multiple modes of rules authoring functionality which includes true English text, cascading menus, and table formats. With HaleyAuthority 5.0, Haley Systems helps business and IT work together, faster -- to create business agility and competitive advantage.

"HaleyAuthority 5.0 is the only business rules management tool on the market that supports truly intelligent natural language rules authoring and automatic code generation for both .NET and Java environments," stated Mark Juliano, Haley Systems' CEO. "Customers know they will have multi-language environments moving forward, and the Haley Business Rules Suite uniquely enables them to reach their business and technical goals with the industry's highest performance solution."

Reduces Rules Management Cycles By 40 Percent

For rule changes, beyond updates with simple pick lists, users typically have to follow a generic five step change management process of: (1) capturing the change in documentation; (2) translating the English to "rules" language; (3) programming code to support the rules; (4) verifying the implementation; and then (5) deploying the changes. HaleyAuthority enables users to simply capture or modify rules in English, validate the change, and then deploy the change, in real-time, 24-7. HaleyAuthority 5.0 eliminates the lengthy and error-prone step of translating business requirements from English into complex if-then logic and the costly step of programming the changes to an application's .NET or Java object model.

HaleyAuthority Eliminates Two Of The Five Steps

HaleyAuthority provides a 40 percent reduction in change management steps, which in turn provides a reduction in time, costs, and process. Because it uniquely integrates .NET and Java applications' object models into the rules authoring environment, HaleyAuthority 5.0 can understand the business policies and regulations and automatically translate the English to code. It provides advanced rules change management -- more than simple pre-programmed list changes provided by competitive rules editors. With Haley, the English is the code.

"Reducing steps and eliminating the software development bottleneck in the program implementation process was just one of the program's goals," said Pat Meehan, senior vice president and chief information officer of Houghton Mifflin Company. "Haley Systems enables us to streamline our overall rules management process and gives us the opportunity to have our business people manage the rules, thereby getting new customers on-line more quickly to increase revenues while also increasing customer satisfaction."

Business And/Or It Manages Rules Directly -- In English -- Without Programming

HaleyAuthority 5.0 enables both business and IT users to manage business policies, procedures, regulations, constraints, etc. in an intuitive user interface - in English - without programming, without translations from English to the underlying object models, and without the potential for translation errors. HaleyAuthority 5.0 creates a collaborative working environment for business and IT users by allowing them to work in a common language and implement rules quickly. According to some analysts, creating a collaborative environment and giving business users control is a prerequisite to automating business decisions with business rules that can be applied to many applications and can be managed by business professionals. To do so, business and IT users must adopt new development processes and organizations, as well as both acquire and promote new skills and tools.

HaleyAuthority 5.0 facilitates the change business and IT must manage. Because HaleyAuthority actually understands the policies in the user's native language and then automatically generates program code for use by the HaleyRules engine, HaleyAuthority 5.0 empowers business and IT to manage dynamic business logic and implementation details within a single system, faster.