Introducing OpenEdge Business Rules

Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge and Progress Corticon Studio are standalone Eclipse-based development environments that can be integrated into a single Eclipse instance to use the capabilities of integrated business rules in Progress OpenEdge. Progress Corticon is a Business Rules Management System. Its patented "no-coding" rules engine automates sophisticated decision processes. It provides the simple yet powerful Corticon Decision Services Methodology for modeling business rules.

Integrating OpenEdge and Corticon enables you to use ABL data structures (such as ProDataSets and temp-tables) as Corticon data structures (Vocabularies and entities). OpenEdge business rules provide tooling support for creating and updating Corticon Vocabularies, and runtime support for simple invocation of Corticon Decision Services.

You can use the integrated environment of Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge and Corticon Studio to do the following: