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Blueriq is a rule-driven software platform designed to deliver dynamic business solutions for organizations with knowledge-intensive processes.
It empowers organizations in fast changing environments to quickly and cost-effectively respond to changing business conditions and regulations. Blueriq provides solutions for Decision Management, Dynamic Case Management and intelligent User Experience Management across multiple channels.
Solutions based on Blueriq are modeled, not programmed, giving you the opportunity to respond more quickly to your customers’ needs and improving your business outcomes.
With Blueriq, you make your own rules!
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Overview
Below, a schematic outline is given on how Blueriq makes this possible.
In Studio, models are creates and maintained. The runtime executes models, which are displayed in a browser, an app or an application. The same diagram, but with more detail is shown below.
Components
Blueriq consists of the following components:
- Studio: create and maintain an application
- Runtime: execute an application
- Publisher: publish an application from one environment to another
Below the preferred deployment of Blueriq is outlined. An application is developed with Studio, which runs on the Development environment. This environment also contains a Runtime which is linked to the Studio. With this setup changes in Studio are directly reflected in the Runtime, which enables rapid application development. Once an application is ready for test, the Publisher is used to transfer the application from the Development environment to the Test(/Acceptation/Production) environment. On this environment only the Runtime is deployed to run the application.
Studio
A closer look at the Studio shows that there are two layers internally:
- Studio server
- Studio client
The Studio server provides the core functionality and is responsible for maintaining the Studio repository. It provides a management service, via SOAP, which handles the connections to the Publisher, Composer and the development plug-in on the Runtime.
The interface elements (the Studio screens) are handled by the client. This client is built with XBAP technology which requires Internet Explorer to run.
Both Studio layers run on top of an IIS application server.
Key features of the Studio:
- Complete revision control
- Work with external and internal libraries
- Multilingual elements
- User and access management
- Working with multiple projects
Blueriq Studio provides a complete guide on the Studio.
Runtime
The Runtime is the execution platform that executes the application. The Runtime runs on top of an application server, e.g. Tomcat, JBoss, Websphere (all Java) or IIS (.Net). On the next layer the Blueriq SDK is available which contains the Blueriq engines. The webapp is located on the next layer, which handles all web interaction. On top of the stack a number of plug-ins are available, e.g. Dashboard, CMIS, which provide specific functionality.
There are several options to load an application from the Studio into the Runtime:
Via a direct link between Studio and Runtime
Via a generated export on the file system (by default in
spring.config.additional-location/exports)- Via the Publisher
The Runtime runs on Java or .Net and works with modern browsers.
Key features of the Runtime:
- Customizable dashboard to run applications
- Variety of plug-ins to extend functionality
- Different APIs to further extend and customize functionality
Blueriq Runtime provides a complete guide on the Runtime.
Publisher
The Publisher is a standalone application. It is connected to Studio to retrieve applications. An application can be published from Studio to the Publisher database. An environment with a Runtime can connect to this database and start a published application through the Publisher Client, which runs on top of Runtime.
Key features of the Publisher:
- Two man rule
- Select a tag/revision to publish
- Administration of published/unpublished applications
More information on the Publisher can be found here: Blueriq Publisher.
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