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Rich Dougherty
Expert Choice, Inc.
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Rulesphere and Expert Choice Gear Up
RuleSphere and Expert Choice Gear Up
For Business Process Management
Harvard, Massachusetts, USA March 19, 2003 — RuleSphere International, Inc. and Expert Choice of Arlington, VA today announce the launch of Decision Factor AEMTM(Agile Enterprise ManagementTM), a product and associated services that are aimed at assisting companies who want to prepare for and/or deploy Business Rule Management and / or Business Process Management (BR/PM) software applications. The products and services are targeted at Fortune 1000 companies that want to manage BR/PM project risk, define BR/PM priorities and costs, measure BR/PM capabilities, and overall, create a business culture that values business rule and process knowledge and management skills.
The combined resources of RuleSphere and Expert Choice will enable the partners to jointly bring a number of critical BR/PM management solutions to the North American marketplace that have not been available in the past. These solutions, marketed by RuleSphere under the Decision Factor AEMTM name, are based on Expert Choice’s market-leading application by the same name. Decision Factor AEMTM is available today. It broadly addresses the 3 underlying corporate infrastructures where most companies see clear reasons to make BR/PM investments; human capital, business operations, and technology infrastructures. So, even in these tight times Decision Factor AEMTM BR/PM decision support application capabilities announced today, enable companies to immediately address business pain, while providing management with the ability to manage their business rule and process assets and program initiatives over the long term.
RuleSphere assessed a number of commercially available decision support applications prior to standardizing on Expert Choice. “We found that Expert Choice’s broad functionality and AHP methodology offered us a platform on which we could build a unique portfolio of Business Rule and Process Management solutions that can help our clients get started quickly and without a large training investment. We also found Expert Choice’s Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology to be extremely powerful from both a human change management and mathematical perspective”, says Phil Wilson, Founder, Chairman & CEO of RuleSphere. “We were blown away by Expert Choice’s ability to help large geographically dispersed teams with the complex rule creation and refinement process, as well as build / prioritize a large enterprise process taxonomy that consists of hundreds of business processes. These capabilities are not found in any other software tool or application so we were more than pleasantly surprised with our findings.”
“Business processes, workflow, collaborative business practices, parallel ways-of-working, and cross-enterprise collaboration, are all tied to underlying business rules and business processes and today’s market for BR/PM software applications is extremely hot, even in this sluggish economy. Companies are looking for Business Process Management or Business Rule Management solutions or both”, said Rich Dougherty, CEO of Expert Choice. “We are extremely pleased to partner with RuleSphere to extend our Expert Choice products to encompass a wide range of BR/PM applications such as human skills management, BR/PM perception mapping, consensus building, and complex decision support related to BR/PM requirements.”
About RuleSphere International, Inc.
RuleSphere International, Inc. is a new management and technical consultancy that was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Harvard, Massachusetts. The firm specializes in building enterprise agility into mission-critical business operations through Business Rule and Process Management (BR/PM) applications to return dramatic top-line and bottom-line financial and operational returns. Business rules are the foundation for building core business and process knowledge, and they are considered significant corporate assets. RuleSphere assists Fortune 1000 firms in architecting business improvement initiatives based on core principles encompassing business rule and process governance. The RuleSphere approach was designed to add value to Business Rules Management (BRM) and Business Process Management (BPM) automation technologies by helping to position these technology-based solutions in a business improvement context. The RuleSphere philosophy is to work in partnership with clients to select the right business improvement program alternatives that address enterprise agility. Then, implement these in well-structured programs that align human, business, and technical infrastructures. This approach reduces program risk, and helps a company achieve a major breakthrough in business performance, or what is known as a “business transformation”. For more information on RuleSphere, visit www.RuleSphere.com.
For Additional Information Please Contact:
Rich Dougherty, CEO
Expert Choice, Inc.
Telephone Number:(703)243-5595
rdougherty@expertchoice.com
About Expert Choice
Headquartered in Arlington, VA, Expert Choice, Inc. is a leading provider of advanced decision support software and services. Founded in 1983, Expert Choice helps business and government organizations around the world with their strategic planning, IT portfolio management, resource allocation, vendor selection, risk assessment and human resources management challenges. Expert Choice’s solutions are based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) developed by Dr. Thomas Saaty, an original founder of Expert Choice, and Dr. Ernest Forman, an original founder and holder of one of the first computer software patents. Expert Choice’s proprietary, advanced decision making software has guided leaders through a variety of critical decisions ranging from the turnaround of IBM to the allocation of the U.S. Veteran’s Administration’s billion dollar capital budget. Today, more than 15,000 individuals in 60 countries, including twenty five percent of the Fortune 500 and half of U.S. Federal Agencies rely on Expert Choice to help them make better, faster, more justifiable decisions and improve their bottom lines. For more information on Expert Choice, visit the web at expertchoice.com.