Patent ID: 8726286

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for consuming business policy rules, the computer-implemented method comprising performing computer-implemented operations for: generating the business policy rules by way of an administrator system in communication with a policy application by presenting a user interface for specifying an organization to which a business policy comprising business policy rules is to apply, identifying a business process associated with the business policy comprising business policy rules, defining policy rules associated with the business policy, the policy rules comprising data defining a rule to be applied to the business process, and generating a business policy rule based, at least partially, upon the specified organization, the business process, and the policy rules; calling, during execution of a client application, the policy application to identify the business policy rules; receiving, by way of the client application, the business policy rules, in response to calling the policy application; determining if a conflict exists among the received business policy rules; resolving the conflict, in response to determining that the conflict exists among the received business policy rules; applying, by way of the client application, at least one business policy rule of the business policy rules to an action associated with execution of the application; and determining if the action associated with execution of the application complies with the at least one business policy rule.