Knowledge Mining: Business Rule Extraction and Reuse

by William M. Ulrich

I find that concepts like knowledge mining of legacy business rules can seem abstract or threatening to people, but the concept is important nonetheless. Any organization with a large installed base of legacy systems should consider using business rule extraction, and the reuse of those rules, as a key component of future IT initiatives. I hope to put the concept of business rule extraction and reuse into a context that organizations can readily begin to deploy.