Corticon Resources

Progress® Corticon™ will help your business to make better, faster decisions by automating business rules. Learn more about BRMS and process improvement technologies by reviewing our broad selection of white papers, on-demand webinars, podcasts, books and other helpful learning resources.

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Next Generation Business Rules: Realizing the Potential

The primary objective for this paper is to educate decision makers on the evolution and current state-of-the-art in the business rules industry, as well as the critical success factors for employing business rules technologies in business automation initiatives. The focus of the paper is a comparison of two fundamentally different approaches to rule authoring and rules execution.

Automate Decision Processing

This white paper provides an introduction to automated decision processing, and the opportunities that it addresses for today’s leading companies. It describes the problems with today’s business processes, and the inherent limitations in productivity, quality and agility. It describes the problems with the current approaches to automate decision processing, which fail to effectively address the management of complex business logic. It then describes how the Corticon enables organizations to model and automate their decision processing to dramatically improve business performance and agility.

Business Rules Management and BPM: Turning Policies into Action

This paper examines the intersection of business rules management and business process management, including what they are, how they interact, and why this is important to the agility, accuracy, cost and compliance of your business processes.

Deployment Architecture For .NET Environments

Corticon BRMS fits naturally in today’s SOA infrastructure. Because it deploys as a service, it leverages the improved performance, scalability, and high availability features of leading application servers. This paper describes Corticon Server .NET runtime architecture with particular emphasis on how Corticon Server fits within various enterprise environments.

Deployment Architecture For Java Environments

Corticon fits naturally in today’s SOA, deploying as a service, and leverages the enterprise class performance, scalability, and high availability features of leading application servers. This paper describes Corticon Server’s JAVA runtime architecture with particular emphasis on how Corticon Server fits within various enterprise environments.

Flexibility and Control in Insurance Operations: Can You Master Both?

When implementing or changing business processes, insurance companies must continually manage the conflicting tensions of operational control and flexibility. In key processes such as Underwriting, Compliance and Customer Service, the balancing act often resolves in favor of control at the expense of flexibility. Is it possible to master both? This paper explores these challenges and how they are limiting innovation in the industry. It zooms in on process decisions as a key point of leverage, and describes how decision automation can help break this cycle. It explores the value of Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) in this effort, and provides a sample application of business rules in the insurance industry.

Corticon: A Solution That Improves Performance and Business Rule Integrity

Read this IDC Vendor Spotlight to learn more about the emerging BRMS market, which has been gathering momentum over the past several years. In this report, IDC presents the benefits of BRMS and states that Corticon is "one of a small number of leading BRMS vendors that have developed a breakthrough technology in the BRMS market."

Health & Human Services

For a government agency—faced with managing program rules ... regulations ... and requirements—paper-based records and manual processes just aren't going to cut it.
It takes automated, regulated, rules-driven processes to serve millions of constituents in a timely and accurate manner. With Progress Corticon business rules management ... your agency can improve customer service ... enhance system security ... automate reporting ... and stay compliant with government regulations. Make bogged-down customer service ... sluggish operations ... and slow decision-making a thing of the past. Make the move to Progress Corticon.

Introduction to Decision Analytics

External events. Changing initiatives. Today’s volatile economy poses daunting challenges for your organization. So how—in this economic landscape—can you keep your business competitive … relevant … and growing? How can you manage the sheer volume of blinding fast events … transactions … and scenarios that impact your organization? In short … how can you make the right decisions? Decisions that turn today’s challenges into revenue opportunities.Click on the module that maps to your organization’s decision-making challenges. And see how Progress Software can boost your bottom line.

Accelerate your BPM Investment with Business Rules

Listen and learn how you can: 1) Create a roadmap to successfully integrate business rules into your enterprise; 2) Unlock the value of your data by leveraging business rules technology; and 3) Boost productivity and customer satisfaction by adapting quickly to changing market conditions.

Better, Faster Decisions with Rule Integrity

Watch this demo of Progress Corticon to learn how the traditional project life-cycle is compacted with business rules integrity.

Maximize ACA Enhanced Funding by Leveraging Business Rules Management

Thank you for registering for the replay of the Leveraging Business Rules Management for CMS Funding webinar. We hope you enjoy learning about:

Understanding the purpose of the Business Rules Management “Modularity Standard” for CMS Enhanced Funding.
Taking full advantage of the A-87 cost allocation exception to build the Health & Human Service IT enterprise of the future.
Understanding what to look for in a business rules engine for the health and human services enterprise.

“No Coding” Business Rules Engine

Corticon is the most powerful and easy-to-use business rules engine available. Its patented “no coding” rules engine manages even the most sophisticated decision making logic in a simple spreadsheet-like environment, and reduces development and change cycles by 90%. Replay this webinar to learn more!

"No-Coding" Business Rules Development

Watch a demo and learn about Corticon's Excel-like modeling and out-of-the-box, ready to use, usability.

Real-time Operational Intelligence

For large operations—operations like global manufacturers—it's a simple truth ...
Customer satisfaction and loyalty have to be earned. Earned through consistently rapid response times ...and top-notch service. How can your organization achieve true excellence in customer service? Progress Apama, Progress Control Tower, and Progress Corticon let you visualize, detect, and address system errors, service delays, and fraudulent activity—while automating and optimizing service delivery Across all transactions, systems, and departments. In real time. The bottom line? Fewer SLA violations. Automatically resolved alerts. Increased productivity. Greater customer retention. And ironclad loyalty to your brand.

Progress Business Rules Management

Overview of Progress Corticon’s capabilities with Business Rules Management in helping organizations to automate and improve decision making

Progress Corticon Business Rules Foundation

Leverage the open, flexible platform to embed Corticon’s Business Rules Management (BRMS) capabilities into any enterprise application

Progress Corticon Enterprise Data Connector

Model-Driven Data Integration for Decision Automation

Progress Corticon High Performance Batch Processor

Extend Progress Corticon Server through this configurable high performance batch processor

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Leveraging Business Rules Management for CMS Funding

Listen to a webinar with Rick Howard, Research Director at Gartner in the Government Industry team and Dr. Mark Allen, CTO of Progress Software to understand the purpose of the the Business Rules Management “Modularity Standard” for CMS Enhanced Funding and learn what to look for in a business rules engine.

Unum Delivers Agility with Business Rules Software

Replay webinar to hear how Unum, a fortune 500 company and market leader in disability, group life, long term care and voluntary insurance benefits, leverages Corticon Business Rules Management System (BRMS) to deliver agile automation. Corticon is a core component to their service-oriented architecture (SOA), helping to automate business operations with greater agility.