A key RulePoint advantage is that it enables you to glean through relevant operational intelligence data from multiple sources and act on them in real time. It is difficult for people to detect continuously changing data events, even more difficult to detect events that are contextually relevant to their needs, and nearly impossible to detect related past events or those that occur concurrently. As a result, most people are forced to focus on post-mortem analysis of lost opportunities and missed threats. The worst case scenario results in missed opportunities or major crises. RulePoint offers a clear advantage by enabling you to discover these operational changes as they happen and the opportunity to act on them immediately.

RulePoint is designed for the non-technical end user who needs to detect changes across dynamic information sources and correlate disparate data to spot patterns of interest. RulePoint also makes it easy for these users to initiate automated response activities to provide real-time situational awareness across the enterprise.

RulePoint differs from data-mining software in that its analyses are conducted in real time based on changes in the state of information. For example, a product is sold, an order is submitted, or the current temperature reaches a defined level. These changes in state trigger events that are fed into the RulePoint system. The business user creates rules to analyze and correlate multiple events from multiple data sources to detect and notify the appropriate user of specific conditions.