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Rules Engine

Rules Engine for Enterprise Decision Automation

Slow decision-making bogs everything down. Decisions' business rule engine lets you visually design, test, and automate complex logic— so you can run processes at speed and adapt in real time.

Workflow and Rules Engine in one platform

Unlike traditional rules engines that require heavy coding or operate in silos, Decisions unifies business logic, workflows, and integrations in one powerful automation platform. Build, test, and deploy complex logic—fast, visually, and without long dev queues.

Launch complex logic in minutes, and update it in real time without breaking workflows. Empower business users while giving IT authority and oversight.

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The intelligent core of the Decisions platform

Decisions stands apart from traditional process automation tools. Where others treat rules as isolated or code-heavy components, Decisions puts rule management at the center—making it the engine behind every action.

  • Dynamic, real-time decisions across any process or workflow
  • Unified logic and orchestration—rules drive everything, not just parts
  • Visual rule design that empowers business users without relying on IT
  • Audit log for governance and compliance
  • Seamless integration of logic across workflows, interfaces, and external systems

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Enterprise-grade performance

Decisions isn’t just built for speed—it’s engineered for volume, complexity, and reliability at the highest levels. Our rules engine is proven to process billions of rules per hour, supporting real-time decisioning across mission-critical processes like loan approvals, claims automation, fraud detection, and customer routing.

Whether you’re handling thousands of transactions per second or adapting logic across global operations, Decisions delivers the throughput, consistency, and auditability today’s enterprises require.

  • No per-transaction pricing—test and retest freely
  • A/B testing, shadow testing, and rollback capabilities built in
  • Transparency, traceability, and control—while enabling agility

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Choose a time that suits you, and we’ll model one rule together. Come, see the platform, and get your questions answered.

Multiple rule types for every need.

Model logic the way your organization thinks. Decisions supports multiple rule types with graphical editors, so you can build from simple validations to deeply layered decisioning.

statement rules

Statement Rules

Readable, natural-language logic built from visual components. Reads like a sentence, and it’s just as easy to edit.

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Truth Tables

Condensed logic that evaluates multiple conditions in a structured grid.

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Matrix Rules

Two-dimensional rule logic that maps intersecting criteria—ideal for scenarios where decisions depend on multiple structured criteria.

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DMN Rule Chains

Standards-based decision modeling with traceable logic paths.

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Rule Sets

Modular groups of related rules that work together or conditionally. Complex processes require groups of related rules.

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Expression Rules

Lightweight logic using formulas or calculations.

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Sequential Rules

Step-by-step logic flows where each rule informs the next.

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Rule Extensions

Customizable enhancements that support advanced scenarios.

Enhance rules and logic with AI.

Integrate AI directly into your processes to power smarter, faster decision-making while maintaining full oversight and auditability. The Decisions platform lets you embed AI-driven insights into your rule logic, helping teams automate complex processes without sacrificing governance.

Generate draft content or text suggestions that can accelerate rule design.

 

Analyze unstructured inputs like documents, forms, or messages to inform routing and decisions.

 

Trigger AI models to classify, score, or recommend actions as part of larger workflows.

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Enterprise Business Rules at Scale

Decisions is engineered for high-volume, complex decisioning in mission-critical environments. Effortlessly handle billions of rules, batch edits, and high-availability setups. Automate processes or revamp your entire workflow – you’ll never outgrow us.

Open integration. Real-time orchestration. No silos.

Rules are only powerful if they can reach across systems—and with Decisions, they can. The platform supports seamless integration through REST APIs, SOAP services, .NET assemblies, and message queues—so your business logic can connect to virtually any system, in real time.

Whether you’re embedding decisions into Salesforce, orchestrating actions across SAP or Oracle, or triggering logic through external services, Decisions acts as the intelligent layer between your systems—ensuring your rules run exactly where they’re needed. 

Validate your data.

Real-time, high-volume decisioning.

Run decisions in real time across large datasets, batch files, and APIs. Whether it’s a single rule or a deeply layered rule set, Decisions executes with speed and consistency—supporting enterprise business rules at scale.

With support for message queues, clustering, and horizontal scaling, it delivers the rule engine you need for mission-critical logic—fast, reliable, and audit-ready.

Automate your most important decisions.

Visual design with built-in testing.

Build, test, and deploy—all in one view. Decisions lets teams design business logic visually, simulate outcomes with real data, and debug without leaving the interface—so you can ship changes faster with less risk. Business users can model and refine business rules without code, while IT can handle advanced configuration and deployment in a shared environment.

  • Visual editor for business-friendly rule design
  • Simulation of logic paths to validate results
  • A governed framework for control and review
Connect rules to other systems and services.

Visibility that drives better logic.

Designing rules is just the start—understanding how they perform is what makes them better. Decisions provides dashboards that help you monitor and optimize your rule executions.

Get a real-time visibility into your rules engine:

  • Execution activity and usage trends
  • Bottlenecks and exceptions
  • Data-backed insights to refine rules over time
Choose from 8 rule styles and types.

Built for performance. Trusted by leaders.

Join some of the world’s most respected companies who trust Decisions to automate their most important work. From insurance to healthcare to financial services and more, they’re streamlining operations, reducing risk, and delivering results faster—thanks to rules-driven automation that works behind the scenes at scale. Decisions is the backbone of efficient, intelligent operations.

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NYC
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University-Verginia
Idemia
Santander
  • "We were looking for a best-of-breed solution that would reduce our reliance on specialized skill sets. We found that Decisions is very approachable for any .NET developer who needs to add workflow capability to an existing .NET application."
    Paul Jones, IT, Pantheon
  • “By leveraging the Decisions platform our organization is able to compete in an ever-changing technology world at the speed of business.”
    Darris Hampton, MidFirst Bank
  • "Based on our experience of investing in the Decisions platform to improve our workflow and process automation, we don't see bottlenecks anymore. We see problems that Decisions can solve."
    Henry Espinosa, City of Miami Parking Authority
  • "Unlike other solutions, Decisions combines a low-code approach with broad and deep functionality so IT and business analysts alike can automate any process, no matter how complex."
    Christopher Misir, Mediacom

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See the Rules Engine in action

Explore how the Decisions Rule Engine is helping enterprises rethink what’s possible. Get a short walkthrough of how teams model, test, and safely update rules in production.

FAQs

Yes. Decisions’ rules engine is highly flexible. You can create nested, chained, and conditional rules; build rule sets that call other rules; and structure logic in a way that mirrors real-world decision-making.

Rules can be configured to respond dynamically to changing inputs, policies, or data conditions—whether you’re building simple validations or complex, multi-layered logic. Everything is version-controlled, testable, and designed to scale with your needs.

Fast. Decisions supports sub-100 ms execution times for rules. Our customers handle hundreds of thousands of transactions a day without compromise.

Decisions supports several different types of rules so you can pick the best one depending on the scenario. Some of them include:

Statement Rules: simple IF/THEN logic, good for basic conditions.

Matrix Rules: rules that use a grid with rows & columns to evaluate multiple dimensions of input. Useful when you have intersecting criteria.

Truth Tables: structured sets of conditions and outcomes arranged in table form.

Rule Sets: a collection of multiple related rules that work together, enabling more complex logic.

Here’s how rules make life easier for people who aren’t coders:

Visual editing: decisions shows rules in a friendly interface, often with natural-language or graphical components so that IF/THEN logic is easier to understand.

Reusable logic: once you define a rule, you can use it across different parts of your system (in flows, forms, API) without rewriting it.

Built-in debugging and testing: simulate inputs, see outcomes so you can try out the rule before it affects anything.

Governance: settings like “enabled date,” default behavior, API exposure, etc., allow oversight and safe change management.