RulePoint, an easy-to-use Complex Event Processing (CEP) server, increases enterprise agility by combining user-applied logic with multiple sources of data, resulting in instant intelligence—enabling right-time responses to hidden opportunities and unforeseen risks.
Operational Intelligence Platform
Decision makers need to act quickly to unforeseen threats and hidden opportunities. RulePoint enables decision makers to capture and automate manual analysis logic, producing responses that are intelligent, timely, precise, and consistent. Smarter still is the ability to enrich the responses with relevant data from all available sources inside and outside an enterprise.
RulePoint is the proven way to quickly reach enterprise objectives and exceed goals, by automating analysis and delivering instant operational intelligence of threats and opportunities. Through an easy-to-use web interface, users can capture analysis logic and define the responses for their relevant scenarios. Users are able to create persistent, intelligent alerting solutions in minutes that meet the ever-changing needs and requirements for an agile enterprise—quickly exceeding goals by eliminating the time it takes for identifying threats or opportunities through manual analysis.
Real-Time Alert Manager™
Decision makers, analysts, and watch officers receive an overwhelming amount of information as part of their day-to-day responsibilities. Real-Time Alert Manager™ provides a centralized view of instant operational intelligence derived from real-time operations.
Key Features
- Web-based tools for capturing analysis and decision logic
- Event simulator for analysis scenario optimization
- Users subscribe to enterprise data streams
- Consume (pull/push) data from any source or system
- Push responses and alerts to any source or system
- Enrich alerts and responses with information from any data source
- Compare data changes across all data sources inside and outside the enterprise
- Supports secure single sign-on
- Role-based security for data subscriptions sources
- No client-side install required
Key Benefits
- Shrink the time gap between analysis and action
- Quickly identify threats and opportunities
- Increase agility through automation and faster responses
- Collaborate by sharing captured analysis and decision logic
- Users can quickly build valuable intelligence applications
- Persistent detection of volatile data across sources, time, and geography
- Leverage historical data and third party information
- Automatically compare and analyze all-source data changes
- Real-time alerts delivered to the appropriate person
- Responses can automatically initiate new processes
Overview
RulePoint facilitates the creation of Complex Event Processing (CEP) rules that react to events (e.g., changes to or the appearance of new information) across disparate information systems and users. Based on these events, rules can deliver alerts, trigger workflow processes, execute automated commands in other systems, and much more. RulePoint is easily configured to detect complex events within and among multiple enterprise applications, across diverse data sources, and among multiple users in accordance with pre-defined business processes.
End User-Driven
End users create and share rule sets where authorized, and maintain individual profiles through web-based interfaces. These profiles contain domain-specific rules for targeted monitoring, correlation, alerting, and response management. For example, features are available that allow users to quickly point and click on information topics to identify what items they'd like to receive alerts on. Users are also able to rapidly define event detection rules and identify the appropriate event responses that should take place, such as updating a portal, sending an instant message, or triggering a workflow process.
Seamless Integration and Industry Standards
Standards-based interfaces allow event-driven applications to integrate seamlessly with business processes, process-driven applications, and any information source. In addition, applications require no change to existing business processes and applications.
Agent Logic products are Java-based and leverage standards including JDBC, Web Services, JMS, EJB, RMI, HTTP/S, POP3, SMTP, IMAP, FTP, and XML.
Power and Scalability
RulePoint can be deployed for large and small applications. Deployments can be centralized or distributed, and connected information sources can also be centrally located or distributed. Operational environments include Solaris, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.
Security
Leverage existing security infrastructure for access, authentication, and authorization. The products allow events to be managed securely by role, while maintaining the integrity of existing information security.
Management Facilities
Agent Logic enables the management of multiple enterprise-wide applications from a single facility. Management capabilities include remote administration, thread management, logging, error checking, role-based security, and a domain-based accounting system.
Individual and Complex Event Detection
- Monitor data in real time across diverse sources, including event streams, sensors, communications systems, message queues, web services, RSS feeds, databases, and flat files
- Cross-reference, filter, and correlate multiple events over time, geography, and across disparate sources
- Leverage 3rd party entity extraction, natural language processing, and categorization engines as a part of complex event detection processes
- Allow end users to define personalized rules and subscription criteria via Wizards, "fill-in-the-blank" templates, and an advanced formula mode
Management and Administration
- Deploy Complex Event Processing (CEP) capabilities as an enterprise service accessible to diverse legacy systems, enterprise applications, and users
- Connect to enterprise information sources such as message queues, databases, and web services using out-of-the box connectors and web-based setup screens
- Leverage accounting, role-based security, logging, and process monitoring facilities to create robust enterprise-class applications
Real-Time Alerting and Response
- Provide users with context-appropriate alerts via multiple channels such as email, IM, and web browser, enriched with data from other sources
- Automatically respond to data events across disparate systems based on user-defined rules by initiating transactions, triggering workflow applications, and interacting with web services
- Intelligently and automatically use server-based events to launch desktop applications such as GIS mapping environments, analytic tools, and multimedia viewers
- Display changing data from underlying systems to real-time web browser screens without requiring client download
Facilitate rapid response to notifications and alerts with return-receipt tracking, time-based escalation, and customized "one-click" follow-up actions
All Complex Event Processing (CEP) capabilities are created and managed by the end user – not the programmer. From novice to power user, creating a solution within RulePoint's browser-based interface is as easy as using a spreadsheet. Some of the core user-driven features include:
User-driven correlation rules
- Allows user to easily define sophisticated correlation rules via an attractive web page
- Enables the user to cross-correlate data elements from separate systems
- Requires no software development for new rule-based scenarios
Multiple rule entry modes
- Includes templates, wizards and advanced modes to make rule entry fast
- Quickly create new rules with templates from previous rules
- Designed to be easy with the end user in mind
Natural language-like advanced mode
- Rules based on a robust, easy-to-learn language
- Auto-complete function allows users to rapidly access system-wide, topics and properties to create rules
Rule sharing via templates
- Rules can be effortlessly turned into templates and shared across the enterprise
- Templates gives novice users a quick way to get started because they can see what has been done before
- Preserves knowledge management and organizational intelligence
User-driven rules chaining
- Rules can be configured to output events
- Powerful chaining capability allows for iterative creation, testing, and deployment or rules over time