Higson vs. Progress Corticon Business Rules Engine

Hyperon is less appropriate in smaller projects that do not contain a lot of business logic. However, if there are a lot of business rules to manage, many things that might be frequently changed, then Hyperon is a good tool to address it.

Suited for any place where complex business rules need to be separated for ease of flexibility.

• Separation of business logic from the app's code
• Decision table performance
• Good GUI

• Handle complex business rules.
• Test different scenarios after changes have been made.
• Allow for version control and auditing of queries and responses.

• Pretty high entry threshold
• A few bugs in GUI
• UX might be better in some places

• The UI could be made more appealing.

It's a very good tool to manage business rules. There are certain GUI bugs and a code boilerplate, but overall it does its job really well.

There is documentation on the site to help learn about the tool. There is also an email to ask for help or any other questions. The team responds quickly with a full answer.

Hyperon has got far better performance. It also has far better GUI to manage business rules. On the other hand, Drools has a bigger community to help you with your problems.

Corticon is way easier and allows for testing.

• Shorter time to market with new features
• Business users might change things without the help of developers

• It has definitely had a positive ROI. Instead of having developers try to figure out these complex rules and how to code them in a flexible way, we now have business analysts using Corticon.