What Is OpenL Tablets?

OpenL Tablets is a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) and Business Rules Engine (BRE) based on tables presented in Excel documents. Using unique concepts, OpenL Tablets facilitates treating business documents containing business logic specifications as executable source code. Since the format of tables used by OpenL Tablets is familiar to business users, OpenL Tablets bridges a gap between business users and developers, thus reducing costly enterprise software development errors and dramatically shortening the software development cycle.

In a very simplified overview, OpenL Tablets can be considered as a table processor that extracts tables from Excel documents and makes them accessible from software applications.

The major advantages of using OpenL Tablets are as follows:

OpenL Tablets removes the gap between software implementation and business documents, rules, and policies.
Business rules become transparent to developers.
OpenL Tablets verifies syntax and type errors in all project document data, providing convenient and detailed error reporting.
OpenL Tablets can directly point to a problem in an Excel document.
OpenL Tablets provides calculation explanation capabilities, enabling expansion of any calculation result by pointing to source arguments in the original documents.
OpenL Tablets provides cross-indexing and search capabilities within all project documents.
OpenL Tablets provides the ability to create compact and easily readable business rules that become a part of business documentation.
Knowledge of Java or any other programming language is not required to create business rules with OpenL Tablets.

OpenL Tablets supports the .xls, .xlsx, and .xlsm file formats.