Corticon Server

Execute More Decisions Faster and More Reliably

Progress® Corticon™ Business Rules Server has the performance, scalability and robustness required to support mission-critical applications. Because Corticon Server executes decision services with inferencing optimized prior to deployment, it executes rules more efficiently and more reliably than traditional rule engines. And with its linear scaling profile, capacity is limited only by the hardware and number of machines on which it is executing.

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Corticon allows you to:

Execute More Decisions Faster and More Reliably
Minimize Integration Effort, Maximize Integration Flexibility
Comply With Decision-related Regulations Efficiently and Consistently

The Progress Corticon Business Rules Server is the patented "no-coding" rules engine, and its performance is unmatched in the industry. Corticon Business Rules Server processes the rules that have been modeled, verified and tested in Corticon Studio, ensuring reliable results and delivering lightning fast performance. Corticon fits naturally in today's SOA infrastructure, deploying as a web service and thereby improving performance, scalability, and high availability of leading application servers.

While most business rules engines analyze rules during execution, Corticon takes a radically different approach with the patented Design-Time-Inferencing™ (DeTI) algorithm. With DeTI, the analysis and conflict resolution takes place during the design process when an extra second or two doesn’t matter. This enables the Corticon Business Rules Server to deliver blazing performance that scales linearly with both the number of rules and the complexity of the data. Read the paper Next Generation Business Rules: Realizing the Potential to learn more.

Corticon Business Rules Server enables organizations to make better, faster decisions by automating business rules. Benefits include the ability to:

Execute More Decisions Faster and More Reliably
Corticon Business Rules Server has the performance, scalability and robustness required to support your mission-critical applications. Because Corticon Server executes decision services with inferencing optimized prior to deployment, it executes rules more efficiently and reliably than traditional rule engines. And with its linear scaling profile, capacity is limited only by the hardware and number of machines on which it is executing.
Minimize Integration Effort, Maximize Integration Flexibility
Corticon Server makes the most of industry standards to provide flexible options for enterprise integration with applications running on Java or .NET platforms. You can embed Corticon in any layer of an application’s architecture, from presentation layer on the desktop to shared-service layer distributed across a back-end server farm. Embedding in composite or packaged applications through Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) or Business Process Management (BPM) Systems is straightforward because Corticon Server was designed for it.
Comply With Decision-related Regulations Efficiently and Consistently
In today’s heated regulatory climate, organizations must be able to explain the reasoning behind each business decision and transaction. The need to provide explanations for outcomes is equally true for automated decision-making. Corticon Business Rules Server provides the “what”, “why” and “when” for every outcome of every decision service it executes, eliminating the need for tedious and error-prone manual reconstruction or auditing. Sophisticated runtime filters further improve decision-making consistency by automatically matching the right decision service to a request.

Decision Service Execution and Control
Executing decision services is the core competency of the Corticon Business Rules Server. Its unique approach to inference-based business rules execution forms the basis for exceptional operational performance, precision and consistency.
Runtime Reporting and Monitoring
Effective runtime reporting and monitoring are must-have features when decision services are integrated with core business applications, because the outcomes of these integrated decision services are often subject to internal or regulatory compliance. Corticon supports this requirement with execution logging that produces a historical transaction log for each request processed by a decision service.
Support for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) Systems
Corticon Business Rules Server was designed for painless integration into Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) Systems.
Application Integration
Corticon Business Rules Server supports several enterprise integration options for custom or composite applications.