This logic, also referred to as business rules, includes policies, requirements, and conditional statements that are used to determine the tactical actions that take place in applications and systems.
[2] However, some vendors come from a different approach (for example, they map decision trees or graphs to executable code).
Rules in the repository are generally mapped to decision services that are naturally fully compliant with the latest SOA, Web Services, or other software architecture trends.
In a BRMS, a representation of business rules maps to a software system for execution.
The OMG Decision Model and Notation standard is designed to standardize elements of business rules development, specially decision table representations.