http://jtonedm.com/2008/11/16/first-look-be-informed/ James Taylor on Everything Decision Management Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:03:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://jtonedm.com/2008/11/16/first-look-be-informed/comment-page-1/#comment-13308 Opportunities to meet me or hear me speak » JT on EDM Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:28:22 +0000 http://jtonedm.com/?p=647#comment-13308 [...] First, presenting at a Be Informed event on March 25 in Amsterdam (check out this post on Be Informed) and then as part of the Business Engineering Community conference Decision Management and Business [...] [...] First, presenting at a Be Informed event on March 25 in Amsterdam (check out this post on Be Informed) and then as part of the Business Engineering Community conference Decision Management and Business [...]

]]> http://jtonedm.com/2008/11/16/first-look-be-informed/comment-page-1/#comment-11566 Jan Verbeek Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:58:48 +0000 http://jtonedm.com/?p=647#comment-11566 Dear Mary   With regard to your question about the graphical metaphor.   Be Informed can display the ontology and the business rules in two ways: A structured natural language or a graphical display (graph) of (parts of) the underlying ontology.   We find that there are essentially two type of business users.  People who prefer a textual approach to writing down policies and rules and people who prefer a more graphical approach. We therefore support both representation formats. Dear Mary
 
With regard to your question about the graphical metaphor.
 
Be Informed can display the ontology and the business rules in two ways:
A structured natural language or a graphical display (graph) of (parts of) the underlying ontology.
 
We find that there are essentially two type of business users.  People who prefer a textual approach to writing down policies and rules and people who prefer a more graphical approach. We therefore support both representation formats.

]]> http://jtonedm.com/2008/11/16/first-look-be-informed/comment-page-1/#comment-11564 mary grace Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:53:51 +0000 http://jtonedm.com/?p=647#comment-11564 sounds like a wise combination of applied analytics and business sense -- something that the INFORMS professional society has been promoting for over 50 years. see www.informs.org       what i think is most promising about your description of the dutch company is how you say they are applying semantics and ontologies along with   structured natural language approach to improve the searching and descriptions for rules....   I can;t follow the graphical metaphors though - is that some sort of visualization to the complex processing and decision heirachy? sounds like a wise combination of applied analytics and business sense — something that the INFORMS professional society has been promoting for over 50 years. see http://www.informs.org       what i think is most promising about your description of the dutch company is how you say they are applying semantics and ontologies along with   structured natural language approach to improve the searching and descriptions for rules….   I can;t follow the graphical metaphors though – is that some sort of visualization to the complex processing and decision heirachy?

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