Services - KROME™ Framework
Knowledge Rules is focused on establishing architecture and design standards that benefit the customer by lowering the total cost of ownership for BPM projects. KROME™, a Pegasystems’ Guardrail compliant configuration, delivers on the promise of enterprise wide solutions that can integrate, effectively manage change, and maximize re-use.
The Company has developed a delivery methodology, KROME™, which decomposes a project into discrete, recognizable concerns with appropriate mechanisms for implementation and inclusion. KROME™ provides guidelines for how to implement process flows, business object binders, decision engines and functional components while accounting for reuse and the ability to adapt the implementation based upon its specificity to a business user. The role of this modular approach is to encapsulate the complexity and detail of the application in a way that simplifies use and maximizes reuse.
KROME™ is a Pegasystems' Guardrail-compliant Ruleset that includes:
- Business Process Selection Criteria
- IT Technology Selection Criteria
- Composite Construction Methodology
- Modular Specification Templates
- Core Implementation API (currently available for PRPC 5.4)
- Training Materials
KROME™ was developed in response to the growing market needs to disaggregate BPM implementation steps and to standardize multiple BPM projects across an enterprise. As seen in the exhibit below, the four quadrants of the KROME™ methodology were developed to effectively separate the design of high intimacy business requirements (process flows and decision engines) from the lower touch IT plumbing (business object binders and functional components) required to make them operational. The separation of concerns increases the likelihood of reuse by encouraging the creation of larger recognizable behaviours with well defined boundaries. The Company's methodology moves away from traditional design and implementation techniques that create a complex set of business decision rules, IT design parameters and settings that are almost impossible to change once the project enters production and toward a flexible solution that is capable of being reconfigured as processes change and improve, eliminating the need for new IT projects as business models and process parameters shift.
Exhibit: Knowledge Rules Modular Model
By subdividing applications into key modules, KROME™ simplifies the answer to what can and should be re-usable and the particular knowledge required to create and/or use these modules. The more common a function or a business policy is, the higher the opportunity for re-use. Knowledge Rules' approach to solving client's problems includes providing tools and deployment environments that focus on encapsulating core business rules for leveraging, identifying and deploying specialized rules for unique parts of the business. Removing the idea of point solutions, Knowledge Rules deploys environments with core rules that will be leveraged. This rules 'lens' enables Knowledge Rules to identify key common rules framework(s) that should be deployed first. These rules are then leveraged to enable unique rules for specific business units or processes to be deployed.
Knowledge Rules' modular approach to BPM projects lowers total cost of ownership for the BPM customer. The use of a consistent delivery methodology ensures that each individual BPM project is architected to efficiently extend into an enterprise solution with limited or no re-work. The efficiency and repeatability of the Company's proprietary framework allows clients to invest in specific BPM slivers with the assurance that the projects will tie to an overall enterprise-wide BPM vision. The demonstrable benefit of building solutions that balance short-term and long-term return on investment provides Knowledge Rules with a unique and highly valuable differentiator amongst its competitors.
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