Supporting Corporate Governance with Enterprise Architecture and Business Rule Management: A Synthesis of Stability and Agility

Business rule management (BRM) and enterprise architecture (EA) both offer support for corporate governance. They do this in different ways, with EA emphasizing a stable framework while BRM offers more agility to the enterprise through control of changing business rules. This paper explores the combination of BRM and EA in deployment to support governance, and argues for a synthesis between the two. Such a synthesis offers an organization the benefits of both stability and overview demanded by regulatory bodies, as well as agility in the face of rapidly changing compliance demands.