SOA's decentralized application environment provides a great deal of flexibility for business units and IT departments, but it also creates difficulty in managing the consistency of business decisions delivered through various applications.

Consequently, businesses must meet the challenge of how logic and rules relate to and can be expressed through through services.

Business rules management systems "BRMS" provide a mechanism for managing decision logic and acts as a conductor in order to align application decision behavior.

We interview James Taylor to gain insight into achieving decision consistency across a SOA based enterprise.

James is the VP of marketing at Fair Isaac. 

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