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Although all organisations have their own unique mix of technologies and business objectives, they share a common pressure to make their IT systems more responsive to business change. At the same time there is an expectation that projects must deliver rapid, cost effective demonstrable results.

blackboxIT combine a broad knowledge of business systems, rules and process approaches and existing systems with access to a best of breed technologies. Together with our partner based approach to customer engagement we can help you solve business problems delivering results within your timeframes and cost boundaries.

Some of the areas we can assist include

Business Rule Capture

Business rules exist in many places, from the heads of business people to the depths of existing mainframe applications. blackboxIT has technologies and approaches to help capture and recover existing rules, producing a coherent set of reusable rules stated at a business not IT level to enable the widest possible range of re-use possibilities.

Business Rule Management

Some business rules change rapidly as you react to address market conditions, others remain static for years and embody the very nature of your organisation. Management of rules through their life cycle at both the business and IT levels is critical to effective governance and compliance. blackboxIT can help you manage rules effectively maintaining traceability all the way through from ‘business ramblings’ in a document or spreadsheet through to formalised rules through to the actual lines of code that enforce the rules.

Business Rule Applications

Building new applications or changing existing applications to be rule based offers many advantages. By making the rules separable from the code and having them stated in natural language enable business and IT users to manage and maintain systems more effectively enabling more rapid change with reduced testing loads allowing faster introduction of changes to production systems. The flexibility of rule bases system enable a rules engine to act as the core of almost any technology environment allowing you to gain the business benefits without dictating a move to alternative environments.

Business Process Capture

With increased collaboration between organisations and customer expectations of a seamless experience, the drive for process has never been greater. blackboxIT can work with you to capture your existing processes whether they are manual, web based or dictated by long established IT system. Once processes are captured they can be visualised, improved, tested all in a simulated environment allowing you to rapidly explore the most effective shape for future systems without tampering with disturbing existing systems.

Business Process Applications

Deploying new systems to support new or revised business processes is straightforward once you have captured a list of rules and a diagram of the processes. Using sophisticated BPM technology as a core, existing systems, partner systems and business rule engines can all be integrated into a seamless system. The BPM approach offers a viable alternative to systems migration or package replacement in many situations, particularly as implementation can be phased. In this way you can target and gain benefits incrementally to support you business objectives.

Whatever your project, if it involves business process, business rules or changes to existing systems we can help you, please contact us for a no obligation discussion with one of our consultants.