Managing business rules in enterprises

Business rules are evidently an important business category since they describe how enterprises are doing business. Their value in developing applications that are flexible and amenable to change has made them attractive also within information system (IS) domain. In the paper we describe how business rules can be used as information resources that help in establishing the link between organization's business and its supporting IS. We show a business rule management scenario that integrates the activities for managing the business rule in an organization, and the activities that support business rule management across the IS development life cycle.