What is BizVR

BizVR is a cloud based environment for creating, testing, deploying, executing and managing Business Decisions.

It is typically used alongside BizCOD (also browser based) which is intended for general purpose programming.

BizVR uses Decision Tables to represent logic and therefore does not require a programmer to create them. They are suitable for use by business people (the ones that, in the early days of computing, would have written specifications in English). In fact the Decision Table is the ONLY mechanism needed for representing logic. But in BizVR it is powerful enough that it can represent any program that could be written using code. Most other decision table tools are limited in functionality.

BizCOD is an environment which is intended for programmers. It has all the components you would expect to find in a modern programming language

Many of the concepts and much of the syntax is common to both environments.

The big differences are:

Feature	BizVR	BizCOD	BizOnt	BizGraph
Intended User	Business (and programmers)	Programmers	Both	Both
Intended Use	Modeling Business Decisions	Any kind of programming	Defining the meaning of the data	Showing the relationships between things
Execution Method	Inferencing, functional	Procedural	n/a	n/a
Execution Control	Automatic or explicit	Programmer specifies the execution sequence in code
Modeling Paradigm	Formatted Decision tables	Free form programmatic Code	Diagram or Code	Graph
Example	Similar to creating a spreadsheet	Similar to writing an essay	Similar to creating a UML model	Similar to creating a network diagram
Validation	Automatic	Manual	Automatic
Learning Time	hours	days	hours	hours
Layout	Tabular - fill in cells in a table	Textual - write everything out in a document	Graphical or textual	Graphical
Views	Decision tables may be viewed from different perspectives	no equivalent for code	Ontologies may be viewed from different perspectives
Appearance	Consistent layout for all problems	Layouts typically different for each problem
Interaction	Tables can invoke code	Code can invoke tables	Tables and code refer to Ontology	Tables and Code can traverse graph. Decisions can be modeled as graphs
Methods	Defined as decision tables	Defined in Code
Functions	Defined as decision tables	Defined in Code
Abstract Functions	Can be specified as Decision tables	Can be specified in code
Recursion	Decision tables can be recursive	Code can be recursive
Inheritance	Decision Tables can be specialized	Methods and Functions can be specialized in code	Inheritance can be specified in the Ontology
Similar Tools	Corticon	Java, Haskell	Protege,OWL	Stardog, GraphDB, ArangoDB