Common Knowledge from Object Connections is the most comprehensive and versatile infrastructure available for the management and automation of business rules and application logic.

Common Knowledge is the only combined business rules engine and visual studio environment that allows business logic to be represented in multiple intuitive formats, reflecting the way you run your organisation. Supported formats include decision trees, decision tables, decision grids, rete rules, workflows, flowcharts, state-maps and scripts.

The Common Knowledge product includes the following two core components:

• Common Knowledge Studio - Common Knowledge Studio is a visual development environment that provides support for the capture, representation, maintenance, validation, evaluation and documentation of business rules. This allows developers, analysts and managers to work together on the formulation and ongoing maintenance of an organisation's business rule assets.
• Common Knowledge Rules Engine - Business rules built using Common Knowledge Studio can be integrated directly into your business systems using the Common Knowledge Rules Engine. The Rules Engine is a comprehensive business rules authoring and execution API which now provides extensive support for all .NET languages, as well as native support for Java, Delphi and ActiveX.

Common Knowledge allows business rules to be represented using a range of familiar formats via its Rule Extenders mechanism. Supported formats include the following:

• Decision Tables
• Decision Grids
• Decision Trees
• Workflow
• ReteRules
• Scripts
• Active Scripts