Understanding the Rules Engine

This section discusses:

• Rules Engine components.

• A high level description of the Rules Engine.

• Rules Engine Manager and Entity Registry.

The Rules Engine provides:

• a non-programmer user interface to create complex business rules.

• a secure way to retrieve data from the system in a logical manner, perform calculations and evaluations, and update data.

• a way to use the Entity Registry, a familiar logical hierarchy, to retrieve data from the system; for example, the curriculum structure of the Academic Item Registry (AIR) or the results structure of the Academic Progress Tracker (APT).

• System Variables and Functions for creating Rules.

• a compiler (Rule Builder) that compiles and readies Rules for execution.

• a means to manage changes to Rules over time and a large number of Rules using versioning.