MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING EFFICIENT BUSINESS RULES MANAGEMENT AND DATA PROCESSING

• US 20120041921A1
• Filed: 12/20/2010
• Published: 02/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Canaday, Matthew, Lynch, Michael, Lee, Lisa
• Application Number:
  US12/973,714
• Publication Number:
  US 20120041921A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/607
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24564 Applying rules; Deductive queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided methods and systems for facilitating efficient business rules management and data processing. A method of embodiments includes generating, at a first computing system, configuration settings to customize business rules to process data transactions. The business rules are processed by a business rules engine at a second computing system. The method includes customizing one or more business rules by applying one or more configuration settings to the one or more business rules, and facilitating the business rules engine residing on the second computing system to process one or more data transactions based on the one or more customized business rules. The one or more customized business rules guide processing of the one or more data transactions and provide information relating to how one or more business rules are matched with the one or more data transactions.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating, at a first computing system, configuration settings to customize business rules to process data transactions, wherein the business rules are processed by a business rules engine at a second computing system;

customizing one or more business rules by applying one or more configuration settings to the one or more business rules; and

facilitating the business rules engine residing on the second computing system to process one or more data transactions based on the one or more customized business rules, wherein the one or more customized business rules guide processing of the one or more data transactions and provide information relating to how one or more business rules are matched with the one or more data transactions.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising communicating the configuration settings from the first computing system to the business rules engine residing at the second computing system via a business rules Application Programming Interface (API) at the first computing system.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising generating results of the processing of the one or more data transactions, wherein the results include one or more of stage information relating to each stage of the processing, action information relating to each action taken during the processing, success information if the processing succeeds, and failure information if the processing fails.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the processing succeeds if at least the one or more business rules match the one or more data transactions.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the processing fails if at least the one or more business rules does not match the one or more data transactions.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein generating is performed using custom objects of a business rules process framework at the first computing system.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein facilitating is provided by the business rules API of the business rules configuration framework at the first computing system.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the configuration settings and data relating to the data transactions are stored at a database coupled to the first computing system.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, further comprising registering results as instances of an audit log custom object, and providing the results to a third computing system for display using a display device coupled to the third computing system.

10. A non-transitory machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions, which instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out the steps of:

generating, at a first computing system, configuration settings to customize business rules to process data transactions, wherein the business rules are processed by a business rules engine at a second computing system;

customizing one or more business rules by applying one or more configuration settings to the one or more business rules; and

facilitating the business rules engine residing on the second computing system to process one or more data transactions based on the one or more customized business rules, wherein the one or more customized business rules guide processing of the one or more data transactions and provide information relating to how one or more business rules are matched with the one or more data transactions.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the instructions further include instructions for carrying out the step of:

communicating the configuration settings from the first computing system to the business rules engine residing at the second computing system via a business rules Application Programming Interface (API) at the first computing system.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the instructions further include instructions for carrying out the step of:

generating results of the processing of the one or more data transactions, wherein the results include one or more of stage information relating to each stage of the processing, action information relating to each action taken during the processing, success information if the processing succeeds, and failure information if the processing fails.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the processing succeeds if at least the one or more business rules match the one or more data transactions.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the processing fails if at least the one or more business rules does not match the one or more data transactions.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable method of claim 10, wherein generating is performed using custom objects of a business rules process framework at the first computing system.

16. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of;

generating, at a first computing system, configuration settings to customize business rules to process data transactions, wherein the business rules are processed by a business rules engine at a second computing system,

customizing one or more business rules by applying one or more configuration settings to the one or more business rules, and

facilitating the business rules engine residing on the second computing system to process one or more data transactions based on the one or more customized business rules, wherein the one or more customized business rules guide processing of the one or more data transactions and provide information relating to how one or more business rules are matched with the one or more data transactions.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor is further to carry out the step of communicating the configuration settings from the first computing system to the business rules engine residing at the second computing system via a business rules Application Programming Interface (API) at the first computing system.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor is further to carry out the steps of:

generating results of the processing of the one or more data transactions, wherein the results include one or more of stage information relating to each stage of the processing, action information relating to each action taken during the processing, success information if the processing succeeds, and failure information if the processing fails.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the processing succeeds if at least the one or more business rules match the one or more data transactions

20. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processing fails if at least the one or more business rules does not match the one or more data transactions.