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Firebox - summary

Firebox enables the creation and management of powerful rules engines by the business owner - without any programming.  Keeping the business rules and programming logic separate in your software applications makes them easier to manage and speeds up development.

Typical applications for Firebox include
  • Online calculators - e.g. web tools for product selection, advice, 'what if' calculators and quotations, in the financial services or communications industries
  • Price quotations - e.g. for complex financial products such as life or income protection insurance
  • Product and service configurators - e.g., for calculating product configuration and maintenance schedules and pricing in engineering manufacture and support
  • Complex billing rules - e.g. in the communications industry
  • Complex commission calculations - e.g. in financial services.

Features

Easy to define and use rules
The business or subject expert can encapsulate their knowledge for use in larger applications - without programming. Using drag-and-drop, you simply draw the rules as a Spark Map which automatically generates a rules engine that can be 'plugged into' applications by your IT developers.

Keep business rules separate from code
Firebox is often deployed within larger software applications. It allows the business rules which drive the application to be kept separate - and therefore managed and maintained directly by the business or subject expert.

Fast delivery / project turnaround
Enabling the business or subject expert to build the rules engine is faster than ensuring the IT developer understands the rules well enough to put them into programming code.

Easy to maintain
Whenever you need to update or modify the rules in the application, the business expert can simply edit the Spark Map. No need to wait until IT can assign a developer, or to rewrite programming code.

Fewer Errors
When the business or subject expert builds the rules engine, there is less chance of errors resulting from misunderstandings between the business expert and the IT developer.

Instant, up-to-date documentation
The Spark Map automatically generates its own documentation and controls - so documentation is always up to date.

Save time and money
Enabling the business or subject expert to create and maintain Spark Applications substantially reduces IT development costs and reduces the time devoted by the business expert to documenting the rules for developers.

Developing and Deploying with Firebox

  1. Draw decision tree - Using drag-and-drop, simply draw the rules or logic as a decision tree - we call this a Spark Map.
  2. Publish as rules engine - In just two mouse clicks, the Spark Map is converted to a logic module that can be 'plugged' into forms, databases or other existing software applications.
  3. Integrate as web service - Software developers can harness these business rules using industry-standard web services, without needing to understand them. This allows business experts to manage the rules and developers to manage the technology.
  4. Monitor usage - Firebox keeps a complete, easy-to-access audit trail of how the business rules are being executed


Firebox License Structure

Firebox Designer Desktop application to design the rules
Runs on Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Linux and Mac
Firebox Web Server
 Web Server Application used to deploy and use your rules based applications
Runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris or any Java ready Web Server








Hosting
Informavores can host your Firebox Web Server application to avoid any IT infrastructure impact and get you up and running in days.  We will create an account which you can publish and manage remotely including full audit trail and reporting.  For more details on our hosting service please contact us.



Customer solutions

NatWest Insurance chose Firebox to support an online life insurance offer, providing fully compliant insurance quotations




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