Setup

Recommended Hardware

At least 300 MHz processor

At least 64 MB RAM

At least 10 MB of available disk space

Keyboard

Monitor

Mouse or another pointing device

Downloading BR

In order to download the latest version of the BR executable, go to the ADS FTP site. There, among other directories, you may see directories such as 420l, 403k, 430a, etc. These denote different version of BR. For example, 403k means BR version 4.03k where 4 is the version major, 03 is the version minor, and k is the revision name. If you are a new user, you may want to avoid the beta releases, as these may contain bugs, which have not yet been fixed.

To locate the latest version, simply open the directory with the highest major/minor/letter combination.

There are two models according to which BR can be set up: Standalone or Client/Server.

If you are a Linux or Mac user, please, refer to the Client/Server category.

The Standalone version runs only on Windows and will be explained in this section.

Once you are in the appropriate directory of the ADS FTP site, you will see directories such as linux, mac , and win.

Open the win directory.

Download the BR executable file with the name that starts with brnative.

For example, if you see a file named brnative420-2011-10-25.exe, its name denotes a stable release of the BR Windows Standalone version 4.20 released on October 25, 2011.

BR Location

The BR executable may be placed in any folder on your hard drive.

BR Serial File

The BRSerial.dat file contains your Business Rules! license information. This file is normally sent to you by ADS after purchasing a BR license. In order for BR to run, BRSerial.dat is required in the same directory as your BR executable. You can easily check the license information contained in this file by using CheckSerial.exe.

Running BR

After downloading the BR executable and the BRSerial.dat files, you may start BR by simply double-clicking the BR executable.