Cleverpath AION Business Rules Expert
Cleverpath AION Business Rules Expert is an expert system and Business rules engine owned by Computer Associates by 2000.
History
- The product was created around 1986 as "Aion" by the Aion company. In its initial release Aion was multi-platform and continues to be deliverable to the PC, Unixs, and Mainframe computer's. In addition it ties in seamlessly with a variety of databases including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and ODBC. Aion was founded by Harry Reinstein, Larry Cohn, Garry Hallee, Scott Grinis, and others.
- Harry Reinstein was quoted as saying:
- Trinzic owned AION by 1993. A reference in a 1993 announcement indicates that Trinzic's formation was the result of a merger :
- Although in the merger, technically AICorp bought Aion, as AICorp was a public company and Aion was still private, the reality was that Aion's leadership and technology subsumed AICorp's. Jim Gagnard, the CEO of Aion, became CEO of Trinzic and AICorp's flagship product, KBMS, was discontinued, while the Aion Development System continued to be enhanced and KBMS customers were assisted in converting to AIONDS, under the continued technical leadership of Garry Hallee and Scott Grinis.
- On August 1, 1994 Trinzic released version 6.4 of AIONDS saying, in part:
- Trinzic was acquired by PLATINUM Technologies in 1995 which retained at least some of Trinzic's acquisitions
- Platinum Technologies was acquired by Computer Associates in 1999. CA changed the system's name to " on or before 2009.
- It is currently at Release 11 on a wide range of supported platforms.
Applications using Aion
Aion has been used in a variety of industries including Energy, Insurance, Military, Aviation, and Banking. At one point an Aion expert system application written by Covia, LLC existed to do airport gate assignment.Colossus, a computer program, developed by Computer Sciences Corporation is the insurance industry’s leading expert system for assisting adjusters in the evaluation of bodily injury claims. Colossus helps adjusters reduce variance in payouts on similar bodily injury claims through objective use of industry standard rules.