Enabling Team Collaboration
Effective decision management depends on teamwork. Business experts, analysts, and technical users need to work together to design and maintain business rules and decisions. Yet, many BRMS and DMS tools make this difficult by using proprietary versioning systems that limit visibility and collaboration.
A standard system like Git enables teams to work transparently, track changes, and manage revisions in one shared environment. It provides several key benefits:
- Enables collaboration: Team members can work together seamlessly on the same project, no matter where they are.
- Improves transparency: Everyone can see who made each change and when it happened.
- Ensures central backups: The latest version of every project is stored in a central repository, eliminating confusion caused by multiple file copies.
- Enhances productivity: Streamlined collaboration reduces rework and improves efficiency.
- Reduces errors: Teams can easily review, revise, and restore earlier versions when needed.
To make these advantages accessible to everyone, FlexRule Open introduces a built-in Git integration with a simple, intuitive interface. It brings the full power of Git—collaboration, transparency, and control—without the technical complexity, allowing teams to manage and evolve business decisions together with confidence.
Versioning Decisions with Full Control
Hence we use GIT for version control, you can take the advantage of the transparency, distributed repositories, having multiple branches, and so on. On top of that, organizations are used to managing GIT for some years now, so they have the internal capacity to support it if needed, and is better than a proprietary system that no one knows how to work with for an organization's most critical assets – business decisions.
Now let’s see how team members collaboratively worked on one project using FlexRule’s built-in Git version controlling system for versioning decisions and rules.
Team Collaboration
As you can see in the following image, there are two team members working on the same project. The changes made are clearly visible, along with the time and revision ID. In this way, you can clearly track the changes and revise if necessary.
As your project requires more resources, you don't need to worry about how to scale the project. New team members simply can contribute to the project without any worries.
You can further compare the content of files under each commit with the previous versions of decisions and rules projects and see the added/ deleted/ updated files.
Commit Changes
When you are modeling decisions (i.e. rules, processes, etc) many artifacts are changing, but you may not be ready to commit to all the changes, but a portion of them. Our GIT integration allows selecting only the necessary files and committing changes for only selected numbers of files.
Of course, you can select all of them and commit your changes if that's what you need.
Automatic Conflict Resolution
While you are making changes on the project on your side, other team members might also make some changes on their side, and if that happens to be on the same document you are working on now, that will introduce a conflict. But don't worry, we automatically identify the conflict and resolve it for you.
When you want to commit your changes, our authoring platform (FlexRule Designer O) will let you decide how to resolve this conflict.
Comparing Changes and Revert!
Our authoring platform also allows you to quickly have a look at changes before committing them. You can compare the changes shown below.
And if you are not happy with the changes, you can always Revert Changes to go back with a single click. This reduces the errors and time it takes to track and make all the changes manually.
You are in Control
Everyone in the team can push their changes to a central repository. Hence the GIT is very well known, there are so many options for your central repository servers. You can push the project to a desired remote repository like GitHub, Azure Repo, GitBlit, GitLab, and so on. Having the project in a secured, online, private, and centralized repository allows anyone in the team to manage the project from any location based on the given access level.
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Conclusion
It is not acceptable to use a proprietary system to manage the versions of the most important assets of organizations. A version control system for decisions is a must-have tool for decision modeling as a team. It enables collaboration, making it easier to work on a project as a team. Especially, nowadays, when team members are in different geographical locations working in different time zones, collaborating has become essential. When you are modeling decisions, it allows modeling the separate parts assigned to each team member and reviewing them by a team leader before merging into the main project. In this way, you can ensure accuracy and transparency, reducing errors. As a result, you can efficiently work and complete the projects on time, which is advantageous to both the customers and your organization.
Last updated February 10th, 2026 at 09:21 am Published February 3rd, 2022 at 09:14 am
