What is Business Rules and Business Rules Engine ?

Business rules whether stated implicitly or explicitly contains all your organization business knowledge. A collection of your organization business policies, constraints, Computations, reasoning capabilities etc.

A business rules engine is a software component that allows business rules to be recorded in a non-procedural, non-programming form, and uses advanced software techniques to compute the consequences and results of rules. The PegaRULES component of PegaRULES Process Commander provides a powerful rules engine supporting business process management, and other applications through services. Developed in Java, highly scalable and reliable, PegaRULES supports declarative rules, multithreaded execution and a large number of industry interfacing and standards. The business rules engine can be embedded or called from another system using Service JSR94 rules.