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9th April 2009

Here’s a couple of skills developers will need in the years ahead

Syndicated from ebizQ
I saw this list of 10 skills developers will need in the next five years – developers not programmers you notice – and I was struck by several things.
First and foremost it still assumed that application developers would be programming – not assembling applications from components, not specifying the behavior of a system [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BPM, Business Rules | 1 Comment

1st April 2009

Here’s how decision management simplifies process management

Syndicated from ebizQ
Checking out some articles on the Business Rules Community I saw a great illustration of making processes simpler and more agile with decision management. In How Business Rules Define Business Processes (free registration required), Jan Vanthienen and Stijn Goedertier give some nice examples of how standard business process notation, with its abject failure [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management | 1 Comment

19th March 2009

Another way decision management and process interact

Syndicated from ebizQ
Jim Sinur, over on the Gartner blog, has a post this week on Rule Guided Processes are the Way of the Future in which he says
There are obvious benefits in making business policies/rules explicit and easily changed via accompanying quick-change processes.
Now I have blogged before about the power of business rules and decision [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management | 0 Comments

12th March 2009

Designing and implementing a web-based warranty system

Frank Kozlowski of Kohler presentedf on a web-based warranty system. When they set out to develop the system their goals were to move to a start-of-the-art, easy to use system that was web-based so dealers could enter claims directly anywhere in the world (they have 12,000 dealers). They wanted to reduce their cycle time from [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules | 0 Comments

10th March 2009

First Look – AlignSpace

I had an interesting chat with Miko Matsumura VP and Deputy CTO of Software AG the other day. While we ranged widely, the official topic was Software AG’s launch of AlignSpace. AlignSpace is a hosted “Social BPM” solution supporting collaborative process discovery. The idea is that it will combine:

Social networking (around process definitions)
Collaborative design of [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Product News | Comments Off

4th February 2009

DIALOG The evolution of ILOG’s BRMS

Steve DeMuth presented on the ILOG BRMS roadmap. The roadmap is driven by ILOG’s vision of rules as a way to solve a class of problems, the need to integrate and partner with IBM (WebSphere,System Z), integration points and real use cases. The vision:

Businesses live and die on the quality of their decisions and their [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization | 0 Comments

4th February 2009

DIALOG Product Roadmap (not really)

Nicolas Robbe came next to give some updates on the product roadmaps. To be honest what he mostly did was summarize recent developments – nothing really about futures.
First he talked about optimization and CPLEX’s 20 year history. With CPLEX 11 they feel they can solve 70% of the very hardest optimization problems – way up [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization | 0 Comments

4th February 2009

DIALOG The roadmap

On now to the roadmap, at least at a high level.
Right now there is the normal post-acquisition “blue wash” going on and by Q2 will deliver IBM versions of all ILOG’s products and, obviously IBM’s global sales force and Global Services are being spun up. The core of the roadmap is to move the BRMS [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BI, BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization | 0 Comments

2nd February 2009

Adding more intelligence to business process

Jim Sinur posted BPM Needs to Add More Intelligence to Decisions Surrounding Processes and said:
Going forward, I see a need for more sophisticated decisions that will require a deeper integration of rules, analytics, and complex events.
If you read my blogs, you know I agree with this statement in broad terms. I think, however, that the [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management | 2 Comments

24th January 2009

IBM and ILOG – Thoughts on Jerry Cuomo’s WebSphere Top 10

Jerry Cuomo has been talking about WebSphere in 2009 and he published his top 10 list on his blog  WebSphere: Into the wild BLUE yonder!.

Business Mash-ups
Business Rules
Middleware-as-a-Service
Rainmaker
Extreme Scale
WAS.NEXT
Restful – Agile
DataPower-lution
POWERful Middleware
Industry-savvy Middleware

He expanded this list with some additional thoughts in an article on InfoQ. Serveral of these – business mash=ups, business rules, Middleware-as-a-Service and Agile [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management | 1 Comment

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