Abstract: Methods, systems, and machine-readable and executable instructions are provided for assimilating business rules. Assimilating business rules can include storing a definition of a business rule based on a policy for an operation as a set of instructions in a machine readable medium. Assimilating business rules can include receiving an input regarding the operation and causing a display of the business rule as textual language within a graphical user interface in response to the input.

Abstract: An object tagging method includes causing, in a user interface displaying managed objects, a display of a plurality of user defined classification controls proximal to the objects. The classification controls are caused to be displayed such that user interface actions can visually link any plurality of the managed objects to any given one of the classification controls. A user interface action visually linking a selected one of the objects to a selected one of the classification controls is, and the selected one of the objects is tagged with data corresponding to the selected one of the classification controls.