Product Overview

Gensym G2
The World’s Leading Software Platform for Real-Time Expert System Applications

Be an expert builder of expert systems. Use Gensym’s G2 to automate the control and
decision management of any complex system, process or simulation.

The Power of G2
Gensym’s powerful Real-time Expert System G2® allows you to create, deploy
Mission Critical Applications and adapt real-time, rule-driven, mission-critical expert applications that
for Mission Critical Industries. automate decision making in telecommunications, finance, government,
military, manufacturing, utilities, and transportation. G2 is proven in the
Leading companies in countless world’s largest enterprises that require 24×7 uptime in true mission-critical
industries power their solutions production installations. With G2, builders of rule-driven, mission-critical
with the flexible G2 platform. applications work more productively, minimize their project delivery risks, and
• Energy increase their success in building long-lasting systems.
• Engineering Services
G2 transforms real-time operations data into automated decisions and
• Financial Services
actions, all in real time. G2 applications work in concert with existing opera-
• Manufacturing
tional systems, including enterprise systems, databases, automation systems,
• Oil and Gas data historians, network management systems, telemetry systems, and many
• Pharmaceuticals more.
• Plastics
• Increase Business Agility and Performance
• Transportation
• Improve Asset and Service Availability
• Utilities • Rapidly Build and Deploy Business Critical Applications
• Preserve, Enhance and Leverage Operations Knowledge

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Building Your Application With G2
Real Time Reasoning for Time-Critical Decisions
G2 is designed at its core for real-time reasoning and execution. All of its technologies work together in real time to drive
decisions and actions. With G2, application builders have a comprehensive infrastructure of capabilities for working with the
time-based requirements of their applications. This built-in infrastructure is an important productivity booster vs. traditional
coding.

A few of G2’s real-time capabilities include:

• Processing tens of thousands of rules per second for high performance
• Data histories kept locally for high-performance time-based reasoning
• Time-stamping of data to support time-based reasoning
• Getting the best answer within a fixed time (reasoning within a deadline)
• Reasoning when data is missing (default reasoning)
• Built-in expressions for reasoning about time-based events and histories

Natural Language Rule Definition

G2 rules, which are in the form of “if…then” state-
ments, reach conclusions and drive decisions,
typically in real time. Rules reach conclusions
from historical trends, predict problems, deter-
mine what actions to take to avoid or minimize
loss, provide guidance to increase performance,
and so forth. G2 represents rules in a natural
language form, enabling domain experts to be
directly part of rule creation and maintenance.

The rules and associated logic can be organized in

several ways to facilitate their management,
including via tables, tree diagrams, and hierarchi-
cal workspaces. Rule logic can also be represented
in graphical structures to illustrate sequencing,
relationships, and integration with process
models.

Graphical Coordination of Business Processes

and Workflows
For real-time coordination of business and work-
flow processes, G2 incorporates a high-perfor-
mance graphical language, G2GL, directly into the
platform that is based on the Business Process
Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL)
standard. With G2GL, users graphically model and
execute parallel and sequential flow logic in real
time for a wide variety of business and workflow
processes.

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Updating In Run Mode to Immediately Adapt Logic
G2’s ability to update any modeling or logic changes during runtime, without stopping to recompile and reload, is a major
advantage for business agility, development productivity, and application maintenance.

For application development and maintenance, runtime editing adds tremendous value. While the application is being
prototyped and built, developers and business users immediately see the impact of logic changes. During ongoing mainte-
nance, logic edits are also immediate – there is no need to stop the application and reload the compiled code or the loaded
operational data.

Mission-Critical Reliability
Nonstop execution is a fundamental capability of G2. Many applications have been operating continuously around the clock
for years, except during power failures. In one deployment, for one of the world’s largest mutual fund companies, G2 has
run non-stop for over eight years with zero downtime.

G2 delivers mission-critical reliability through several means. First, G2 is mature. It has been tested with many millions of
hours of deployment in the most demanding installations. Through the experiences of these types of deployments, G2’s
engineering team has continuously enhanced the platform’s design to ensure high levels of platform reliability.

Object Modeling for Understandability and Reusability

G2’s object-oriented modeling offers highly reusable code and an application structure that is much more intuitive than
those built with conventional programming tools. G2 objects graphically represent the properties and behaviors of items of
interest and their relationships – such as physical items like a tank, pump, or instrument or abstract items like an event, task,
decision, order, message, or logical connection. Essentially everything in a G2 application is a type of G2 object.

Other important G2 object modeling advantages include:

• Inheritance – Single and multiple hierarchical inheritances provide high levels of modeling productivity.
• Properties – Representable as real-time data, simulated data, text or logical variables, or even as another object.
• Methods – Represent object behaviors in real time as procedural code.
• Relationships – Intuitive creation of relationships via graphical connections and flexible definitions.
• Animation – Object icons have programmable animation layers to enhance human-to-machine interactions.
• Organization – Placement of objects and knowledge on graphical and programmable, hierarchical workspaces simplifies
application organization and maintenance.

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Rapid Prototyping to Involve and Engage End Users
G2’s capabilities for runtime edits, intuitive graphical representation of object models, and intuitive natural language repre-
sentation of rules and procedures provide a highly rapid prototyping and development environment. It is not unusual for
first prototypes to be up and running within hours or days.

With rapid prototyping and development comes a major advantage of enabling close involvement with end users to help
ensure that application functionality meets business requirements. End user experts can literally “look over the shoulder” of
the application builder as object models and rule logic are created and in many cases take the lead for entering logic.

Unified Modeling, Simulation, and Deployment Platform for Greater Productivity

Unlike other rule engines, G2 unifies object modeling, simulation, rules, procedures, and deployment in one comprehensive
and holistic real-time environment. This unification offers a tremendous benefit for efficiently managing an application’s
lifecycle from prototyping to development to deployment to ongoing maintenance.

Task Priority Scheduling

G2’s real-time processing begins within its internal scheduling engine for concurrently executing rules, procedures, models,
and other tasks. Typically, many threads of reasoning, models, and other activities are occurring concurrently. The scheduler
cycles according to a clock “tick” that can be specified at the millisecond level. Everything has a priority, so critical items can
take action first. G2 takes care of the scheduling of tasks for the user based on simple configuration choices.

Linking Your G2 Applications with External Systems and Sources

Experience has shown us that accelerated innovation is enabled by depth of platform focus, not breadth. For that reason,
Gensym’s focus is consistent innovation of G2 on a targeted set of stable and powerful platforms:

• ODBC, JDBC, Oracle SQL, Sybase SQL for relational • HP OpenView for telecommunication systems
databases • SNMP for telecommunications messages
• JMS for enterprise information systems • G2 Sockets for network socket connections
• JMail for network email communication • ActiveX/COM for PC applications and .NET programmers
• HTML for browser messaging • G2 Gateway Standard Interface for C/C++ programmers
• XML / SOAP for internet application information • G2 JavaLink for Java programmers
exchange

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Gensym G2 2015 Standard and Enterprise
Editions
The Gensym G2 Platform is available in both Standard and Enterprise Editions. The following table provides the differences
between these editions.

FEATURE G2 STANDARD EDITION G2 ENTERPRISE EDITION

Real Time Reasoning Engine

Natural Language Rule Definition

Graphical Design of Business Processes

Mission-Critical Reliability

Object Modeling

Rapid Prototyping

Unified Modeling & Simulation

Task Priority Scheduling

Support for 64-Bit Environments

Unlimited Deployment Instance Licensees

Mobile Solution Consulting Services

Cloud Development Solution Services

Include Licenses For Development, Test, High Availability and

Disaster Recovery Environments

Running Your G2 Applications

Experience has shown us that accelerated innovation is enabled by depth of platform focus, not breadth. For that reason,
Gensym’s focus is consistent innovation of G2 on a targeted set of stable and powerful platforms:

Windows Windows
G2 Standard | Enterprise Windows Windows Windows
Server 2008/ Server Linux Distributions**
7 8.1 10
2015 2008 R2 2012 R2
G2 STD and ENT are LSB
G2 Server (STD, 32-bit) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (Linux Standard Base) 4.0 Compliant.
The product is supported on several Linux
G2 Server (ENT, 64-bit) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes distributions (e.g RHEL 5.6, RHEL 6.4, RHEL 7.1,
SuSE Linux Enterprise 11, Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04
and others).
G2 Classic Client For a full list see
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
(Telewindows) www.linuxbase.org/lsb-cert/productdir.php?by_lsb

G2 Next Gen Client Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes N/A
(Telewindows NG)

**For 64-bit OSs, such as RHEL 7, which only has x64 version, user needs to install 32-bit compatibility libraries to run G2 STD

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