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Status Not under consideration
Categories Social Program Management Platform
Created by Faisal Shafique
Created on Jun 14, 2023

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CER Development in Java

In an eligibility and entitlement bespoke solution in SPM, rules development and hence CER development is a key part. This has a learning curve and what happens most of the time on projects is that there's a niche team of rules developers that do these code changes. This request is to make CER Rules development easier to develop by using existing skills that SPM developers will have i.e. Java.

Using native Java at least for development means less cost to customers in terms of non-niche skills required to code and lesser of a barrier to new folks who are going to maintain it, easier to code and debug with wide tooling support etc.

I remember discussing this few years back with Product Development in Ireland and it appeared that there were some discussions/proof of concept going on at that point which would imply that there's a need across customers for this. Not sure the conclusion of that PoC etc. but can this be considered as a future enhancement please?

Customer Name Scottish Government
Persona Based Summary

As an SPM Rules Developer I want to develop Eligibility and Entitlement Rules in Java so that I can code, debug and unit test just like any other business logic.
Market Segment Health & Human Services
Type of Request Idea
Market Opportunity

Any improvements to reduce SPM implementation costs make it more attractive to customers. CER development/testing is certainly a big part of Eligibility and Entitlement calculations.
Usage frequency + #/type of users impacted

Pretty much every day during the development phase and frequently enough still during maintenance phase as well.
CURAM:Workarounds + Proposed Solution

Existing CER solution is there as a default.
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  • CLAIRE MCGAFFEY
    Reply
    |     Aug 10, 2023

    Hi Faisal,

    We have reviewed your enhancement suggestion.

    Based on the information provided, our understanding of your request is as follows:

    • Your are enquiring about whether there are plans to change the way in which rules are developed in the Cúram application, this is not aligned with our product strategy

    For 20 years now, Curam (and indeed the wider HHS software industry) has consciously adopted and embraced a low-code, no-code approach. For those areas of our customer’s business which change and/or evolve on a regular basis (e.g. Rules, Evidence, Scripted Questions), Curam provides infrastructure to allow content in these areas to be configured rather than coded. This is important for our customers, in that they do not want to have to rely on IT departments or SI partners to release new versions of their systems on an going basis; rather they want to push data and metadata into production in response to these regular changes.

    As such, we took the decision many years ago to step away from development-time Rules development in favour of a metadata-driven approach (currently CER, but even classic rules were metadata-driven at the end).

    We feel it would be a step backwards in the market to return to the era of defining legislation in policy in static, deployed code. and as such are not considering this enhancement request for a future release. We would of course be happy to consider and schedule enhancements to our existing metadata-driven approaches to help our customers and partners in their experience in defining content in these areas.

    We are therefore closing this request and do not plan to take any further action.

    Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas with us. Although we cannot pursue all the submitted suggestions, we are committed to involving our users in building our product roadmap and appreciate your ideas.

    Thank you.

    Graham McCrindle, SPM Product Management Team.


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    Graham McCrindle
    Reply
    |     Jul 26, 2023

    Hi Faisal, I have been discussing this with our Chief Architect and will have a formal response for you shortly, sorry its taking a little longer than 30 days to respond on this but with annual leave etc its been difficult to align the correct people to discuss.

    Thanks
    Graham McCrindle, SPM Product Management Team.

  • CLAIRE MCGAFFEY
    Reply
    |     Jun 15, 2023

    Hi Faisal ,

    Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas with us. We are committed to involving our users in building our product roadmap and appreciate your suggestions.

    We will review the information you have provided and get back to you within 30 days. If additional details are required to complete our evaluation, we will send you a request for more information.

    Thank you,

    Sheryl Brenton, SPM Product Management Team