Haley's Business Rules Authoring Product Now Available In 3 Tiers to Capture, Organize, Manage, Test and Deploy Rules

PITTSBURGH, PA, (NAMC) - Haley Systems, Inc., a leading provider of business rules management systems, today introduced HaleyAuthority(TM) 5.1, the industry's first business rules authoring software designed to enable business users to capture, organize, manage, test and deploy business rules while reducing the IT burden of implementing frequent rule changes in application code. The new release offers Haley customers greater flexibility by providing a range of functionality across the various stages of the application development lifecycle, from decision logic capture and modeling to business rules implementation.

With release 5.1, HaleyAuthority now comprises three tiers - HaleyAuthority Edge, HaleyAuthority Express, and HaleyAuthority Enterprise - each designed to address a different phase of development:

-- HaleyAuthority Edge helps business users to capture and organize their business unit's decision logic and business policy statements using English statements rather than code;

-- HaleyAuthority Express allows business users to validate that the captured statements are understood by the system; and,

-- HaleyAuthority Enterprise allows business and IT users to test, implement, and deploy the set of statements as business rules executed by HaleyRules, Haley Systems' business rules inference engine.

"HaleyAuthority is the most efficient, intuitive business rules authoring product on the market," said Hans Witt, President and CEO of Haley Systems. "Whether it's for the most effective capture and documentation of business rules or modeling and verifying the business logic, there is now a Haley authoring product that addresses every phase of the business rules development lifecycle. By enabling business and IT users to develop rules-based applications more collaboratively, HaleyAuthority reduces the need for programmer intervention and eliminates change management steps - thereby significantly reducing implementation and update times and overall lifecycle costs."

HaleyAuthority is a multi-user rule authoring application that separates business logic from applications and stores rules in a central knowledge management database. Only Haley's authoring products allow capturing, testing and simulation of the business logic without first creating an underlying implementation. HaleyAuthority provides easy and intuitive, wizard-based implementation with Java classes, .NET assemblies, XML schema and SQL databases. These wizards allow IT personnel to integrate the business rules with applications after the business logic has been validated.

HaleyAuthority Edge allows users to capture their business logic in their common, everyday language. Driven by Haley's unique capabilities, users create nested rules through applicability conditions, which greatly reduces the complexity of rules and enhances their readability.

HaleyAuthority Express adds to the functionality of HaleyAuthority Edge, with business modeling and a rich set of features with built-in understanding of units of time and other basic concepts. Users can define the concepts set forth in their rules, making them logically understood by the system.

HaleyAuthority Enterprise provides the highest level of functionality with the addition of full simulating and testing capabilities and rules workflow management. Haley users can deploy their business rules management system on a wide variety of platforms, from Pocket PC to Microsoft Windows and many variants of UNIX and Linux.

With the introduction of HaleyAuthority 5.1, Haley is enabling both IT staff and the business users across the enterprise to adapt to frequent and on-going business changes almost in real-time. By relying on Haley, business users no longer have to reinterpret their business requirements to make them understood by IT in order to implement their business rules.

About Haley Systems

Founded in 1989, Haley Systems, Inc. is the first business rules management system (BRMS) vendor to address the demanding needs of dynamic enterprises that require frequent and rapid changes to complex business processes and rules. The Haley Business Rules Management Suite is the only BRMS on the market to combine high-performance, rules-based processing with natural English language understanding. Haley customers use plain English to automate business rules in their strategic software applications. By empowering business users to manage business rules and decisions directly from their desktop, Haley eliminates the IT bottleneck caused by dependency on programmer intervention to create and maintain rules. Haley users gain dramatically reduced rule change cycle times, resulting in several competitive advantages, including improved customer responsiveness, enhanced revenue opportunities, faster time-to-market and reduced IT costs. Major Global 1000 companies such as Adobe, Cigna, BUPA, KPN and One Beacon Insurance, as well as government organizations including the U.S. Army, the Department of Labor and Inland Revenue rely on Haley products. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Haley is privately held, with venture capital backing from Pequot Ventures, Draper Triangle Ventures, LP, and PA Early Stage. For more information on Haley Systems, visit www.haley.com.

HaleyAuthority and HaleyRules are trademarks of Haley Systems, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.

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