Progress has announced significant momentum in the public sector's use of
Progress® Corticon® Business Rules Management System (BRMS), bolstered by
several new state agency contract signings and the recent release of Corticon
BRMS 5.5. The increase in activity comes as numerous government agencies
already leveraging the Progress Corticon solution are seeing rapid returns
on investment and significant hikes in productivity. The announcement was made
at the ISM Conference, held at the Pennsylvania Convention
Center, Philadelphia,
August 30-September 2.
Many industries rely on complex business rules to run their
businesses. These include verticals such as government, healthcare, insurance,
real estate, financial services and others that are governed by complex-and
constantly changing-policies and regulations. Existing processes, whether
manual or automated, can no longer keep up with this rate of change. For
example, the Affordable Care Act forced modernization of supporting software
applications, as well as brand new systems, to conform with mandated changes to
healthcare eligibility and administration. Rather than modify existing systems,
most states determined that it would be more cost effective to rewrite the
systems using modern business rules engines to guard against ongoing regulatory
changes. More than half of U.S. states chose Progress Corticon and have
achieved tremendous success improving productivity, assuring compliance with
regulation, and delivering better citizen service.
"In the past year, we have made significant investments in
our core Corticon solution—a business rules engine that empowers users to make
millions of decisions every day by managing them promptly and efficiently
through automation," said Dr. Mark Allen, Vice President,
Decision Analytics at Progress. "Corticon BRMS has been embraced by the
U.S. government to manage processes such as eligibility determination and
benefits administration. Corticon BRMS can help organizations perform at their
best, especially in highly regulated industries such as government, healthcare
and financial services."
With the recent Corticon 5.5 "Rules without Limits"
release, rule authors can build, develop, test and deploy rules in their
platform of choice-Java or .NET. In addition to cross-platform support, other
key new features in the Corticon 5.5 solution, such as rule flow branching,
adaptive and reusable rule flows, improved thread pooling and high-performance
logging, firmly position Corticon BRMS as the industry's leading business rule
engine.
Progress, a long-time provider of BRMS to government clients, has implemented
projects with the following state agencies, among many others:
- State of Oregon Health Authority: Using Corticon BRMS, the State
of Oregon will be able to create and modify rules quickly,
ensuring it is up to date with the latest eligibility requirements. The
solution provides a record of what rules are in affect at any given time,
and ensures eligible citizens receive the benefits to which they are
entitled, all while reducing risk and fraud.
- Texas Teachers Retirement System (TTRS): As part of its Enterprise Modernization
Program, TTRS chose
Corticon BRMS to ensure that as staff retire and institutional knowledge
disappears, business users are still able to provide a high level of
service for its members and benefits recipients.
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Department of Human Services:
Using the Corticon solution, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Department of Human Services has modernized existing systems, moving
the hard-coded rules into the flexible Corticon BRMS, and used Corticon
BRMS to automate previously manual processes.
"We chose Progress Corticon BRMS over alternative solutions
because it was much easier to create and modify rules," said James Weaver,
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Public Welfare, Insurance and Aging, Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
"The system enables users to use formats and terms that are understandable
to non-IT users, so even business analysts can translate policy into rules
easily, on their own."
