BEA has designated ILOG as a preferred business rule technology vendor to provide key functionality for its business process management (BPM) application development framework, the BEA WebLogic Workshop. ILOG JRules, a key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) product line, was selected to help create faster business response times for WebLogic Workshop customers in finance, insurance, telecom, and government markets as part of the combined solution. This is because ILOG JRules is designed to help eliminate the need to make business policy changes to a BPM application through traditional software coding, helping make it possible for customers to implement these changes more quickly.

BEA WebLogic Workshop is a full-featured Java development environment designed to enable information technology staff to more easily visually build and assemble enterprise-scale Web applications, Web services, JSPs, Portals, EJBs, and Process Workflows optimized for a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Using ILOG JRules integrated with the WebLogic Workshop framework, developers can create policy-based services orchestrated by BEA Workshop Process Workflow. Building services based on ILOG JRules can help enable a higher degree of reusability because business rules can be customized to fit different business processes and invocation contexts, and can also be shared across multiple applications/services.

BEA's flexible BPM approach is different from what are called "pure play" BPM suites, because it can allow for the creation of tailored solutions through partnerships and integration with best of breed process analysis, content management, and now, business rules technology. The addition of business rule management to BPM is thought by some industry analysts to be critical for the success of BPM.

ILOG JRules is designed to integrate with BEA Workshop Process Workflow using a connector called ILOG Control, available free from ILOG an also via the BEA website.