That sounds wonderful. -Adrian
--- On Wed, 7/28/10, Sam Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Sam Hamilton <[email protected]> > Subject: Using Drools to Help with Rules > To: "user" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 8:12 PM > Hi Guys, > > I have been thinking about problems we are soon going to > start facing in marketing our OFBiz website and some of them > can be solved using a rules engine, this then spilled over > into other departments once I had read through the Drools > website and saw how powerful it could be once implemented > inside OFBiz. > > I was thinking Drools http://jboss.org/drools/ as its ASL2 so > we can have in trunk http://jboss.org/drools/downloads.html and also because > of the GUI which could be plugged into OFBiz where ever we > need rules - a few cool examples are here > http://downloads.jboss.com/drools/docs/5.0.1.26597.FINAL/drools-introduction/html/ch02.html#d0e166 > and for the developers or data mining people using Birt etc > they can use Eclipse. > > The uses I can think of right now are: > 1. Sending emails to customers - similar to auto responders > or triggered emails . > 2. Stock reordering - allowing different stock to be > treated differently depending on for example how fast its > selling or out of which warehouse the most is shipped. > 3. Inserting marketing material into parcels - picking > different customer segments and targeting them differently. > 4. Shipping carrier upgrades / changes depending on either > destination or price - like zappos do when they secretly > upgrade customers to over night delivery. > 5. Refunds to customers if something goes wrong (could > automate some of the process) and then if its outside the > rules it move to a human for review. > > The real aim is that I want to move the process of rule > changing out of the programers hands and put them into > technical business people so that we can make fast changes > to the business all done by the business users. > > What does everyone else think? > > > Cheers > Sam > >
