JT on EDM

I thought I would wrap up with some closing thoughts for the week:

• Lots of discussion of the importance of data – understanding it, integrating it, cleaning it and making the same data available to those reporting on it, doing analytics with it and running operational systems.
• Interesting times in the rules market with recent acquisitions by SAP, IBM, Oracle and Bosch
• Definite signs of growing awareness that decisioning is at the intersection of rules, analytics, data mining and more
• Some companies are showing great returns on an investment in decision management using both business rules and analytics
• Worries about the short term impact of the global crisis were balanced with optimism that the current problems will make companies more focused on building the kind of rules-based, analytically-enhanced, agile systems that can help prevent these problems in the future

Lots of people blogged – me, Sandy, Paul, Angie, Mike. Here’s the full list of posts I have found – I will edit it if any more show up

Tutorials

• 2008 Business Rules Forum – Day 1
• 2008 Business Rules Forum – Day 2
• Business Rules Forum 2008: Agile, Optimization

Day 1

• Live from the EDM Summit – From Here to Agility
• From Here to Agility: Ron Ross on Rules
• Hotwire.com Revenue Management
• Risk Management at Sun
• Business Rules Forum: Mixing Rules and Process
• Rules and Process Management for Insurers
• Business Rules Forum 2008: Business Decisions from Real Time Events
• Business Rules Forum: Vendor Panel
• Business Rules Forum 2008: The BRE Vendor Panel
• Business Rules Forum 2008: And one last thing…
• Business Intelligence meets SOA
• 2008 Business Rules Forum – Day 3

Day 2

• Business Rules Forum: James Taylor and Neil Raden keynote
• Taylor and Raden Define Decision Management
• Business Rules Forum: Gladys Lam on Rule Harvesting
• Business Rules Forum: Pedram Abrari on MDA, SOA and rules
• Rules in tables, spreadsheets and diagrams
• Predictive Analytics Produces Business Rules That Deliver
• Business Rules Forum 2008: Upper Ontology for Events, Processes, States, Rules
• Business Rules Forum 2008: Nearly CEP
• Business Rules Forum – Beyond Subject Matter Expertise
• Business Rules Forum – Disney and their Data

Day 3

• Building Blocks of Decision Management
• Business Rules Forum: Kathy Long on Process and Rules
• Integrating Predictive Analytics and BRM to Improve Health Plan Member Experience
• New Approaches to Creating, Simplifying and Visualizing Rules
• Optimizing Customer Lifecycle Management
• Business Rules Forum: Kevin Chase of ING
• RuleML 2008: PRR and rules vs decisions
• Business Rules Forum 2008: on the Web, & Emerging Trends
• Business Rules Forum 2008
• Business Rules Forum 2008 Wraps-up (added 11/7)
• Business rules: The good and the  bad (added 11/7)