Business Rules

New webinar series for those in Europe (or on the East Coast)

February 8, 2012

Working with our European partners (BCS), Decision Management Solutions has scheduled a series of three webinars at 7am Pacific/10am Eastern/16:00CET. Designed to be  live events that work for those in Europe, this is a foundation series on three core topics – Decision Management, Business Rules and Predictive Analytics. There is no restriction on attendance – [...]

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Workshop: Decisions and Decision Management (Berlin, Germany)

February 8, 2012

[ June 5, 2012; ] I am giving a live 2-day workshop in Berlin, Germany this summer on Decisions and Decision Management.

Organizations must understand how to identify and classify decisions and how to assess the potential for business rules and analytics to support and improve those decisions. They need to understand the available technologies and approaches and the long and [...]

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Webinar: The use of Business Rules in Decision Management Systems

February 7, 2012

[ March 14, 2012; 7:00 am to 8:00 am. ] This webinar is at 7am PT, 10am ET and 16:00 CET to support our European customers.

This webinar will focus on business rules and on Business Rules Management Systems as a platform for Decision Management Systems. You will learn how a Business Rules Management System makes the agility and transparency you need possible and what the [...]

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Rules Developer/Junior Developer position in Louisville, KY

February 7, 2012

Brooksource in Louisville, KY is searching for a Rules Management Developer for a Fortune 100 client in the healthcare industry. This position is within the Clinical Guidance group and they are seeking someone that has a development background and has experience working with the business side of the house.  This is a unique position that has [...]

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A podcast about Decision Management Systems and a chance to win

February 7, 2012

Jim Harris of the OCDQ Blog (Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality) interviewed me for his OCDQ radio show recently and the podcast is now live – check it out on his blog. In the interview Jim and I discuss the whys and wherefores of Decision Management, the four principles of Decision Management Systems and the three legged [...]

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Webinar: An Introduction to Decision Management

February 6, 2012

[ February 29, 2012; 7:00 am to 8:00 am. ] This webinar is at 7am PT, 10am ET and 16:00 CET to support our European customers.

This webinar will introduce the key principles of Decision Management Systems and explain their role in a modern information systems architecture. You will learn what it means for Decision Management Systems to be agile, analytic and adaptive. The four principles [...]

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Know any good free resources on predictive analytics?

February 6, 2012

I got a comment on one of my recent posts asking if I knew of any good free video resources on predictive analytics. While I have some videos up on the Decision Management Solutions YouTube Channel (youtube.com/user/DecisionManagement) I figured some of my readers must know of others. So, if you do, why not post a comment [...]

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Register for the first Decision Management Systems Platform Report webinar

February 3, 2012

The first webinar from my ongoing research into Decision Management Systems Platforms is coming up on February 16th at 10am PT – register here  for Four platform capabilities for Decision Management Systems.
This webinar kicks off what will be a continuing series of webinars as our definitive report on Decision Management Systems Technology Platforms comes to fruition [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business

February 2, 2012

[ March 22, 2012; 8:00 am to 9:00 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.” I will be speaking on BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler, and More Agile Business. The third  is in Denver, CO on March 22nd and the main session starts at 8:30am MT. I will be [...]

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Webinar: Four Platform Capabilities for Decision Management Systems

February 2, 2012

[ February 16, 2012; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] I will be giving a webinar on Four platform capabilities for Decision Management Systems on February 16th at 10am Pacific. This webinar kicks off the first installment of our definitive report on Decision Management Systems Technology Platforms. This report describes the wide range of technology available for building this exciting class of systems – Business Rules [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business

February 1, 2012

[ March 7, 2012; 6:00 am to 7:00 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.” I will be speaking on BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler, and More Agile Business. The second is in Columbus, OH on March 7th and the main session starts at 8:30am ET. I will be [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business

January 31, 2012

[ February 15, 2012; 6:30 am to 7:30 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.” I will be speaking on BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler, and More Agile Business. The first  is in Dallas TX on February 15th and the main session starts at 8:30am CT. I will be [...]

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Some thoughts on decision terminology

January 30, 2012

An interesting thread over on LinkedIn got into a discussion of terminology and I thought I would share my opinion on this here:

Decision Management is an approach for supporting, automating, managing and improving decisions.

Decision Management Systems are systems that automate and manage repeatable decisions.
Decision Support Systems support people manage decisions, both repeatable and one-off.

To build [...]

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Here’s how a Decision Management System would manage review fraud

January 30, 2012

My eye was drawn to an article in the New York Time last week – For $2 a Star, an Online Retailer Gets 5-Star Product Reviews.  This article drew attention to the ongoing and growing problem of fake reviews. Like many of us I increasingly rely on reviews on sites like amazon.com or yelp.com to [...]

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New White Paper: Managing the Next Best Activity Decision

January 20, 2012

I have recently finished a new white paper on Managing the Next Best Activity Decision, sponsored by KXEN.
Every interaction with your customers is an opportunity to build your relationship. It could be a personalized marketing offer or proactive customer service. To make sure this interaction maximizes the value of your customer relationship, many organizations are developing [...]

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Business rules (Drools) job opening in Ann Arbor

January 9, 2012

A customer of mine is looking for a Drools developer to be based in Ann Arbor, MI:
HealthMedia, a member of Johnson & Johnson’s Family of Companies, is recruiting for a dynamic Java/Drools Developer to join our top-notch software development team, located in Ann Arbor, MI. This talented individual will be building applications using Drools/Java/J2EE (or [...]

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Nice article on predictive analytics in insurance

January 5, 2012

Patrick Sugent wrote a nice article on A Predictive Analytics Arsenal in claims magazine recently. The article is worth a read and, if this is a topic that interests you check out our white paper on next generation claims systems or the series of blog posts on decision management in insurance that I wrote after I did a [...]

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Start with decisions not with business rules

January 4, 2012

An interesting discussion started on twitter this week with @BigBlueMilky saying “Decision Management is so much more that just using business rules” – something I strongly agree with. @JeffreyGoodReq followed up by adding “But you must start with business rules” and, when I disagreed and said you must start with Decisions added “rules = context [...]

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Giving retail banking customers what they want

January 2, 2012

Jim Davis of SAS had an interesting post back in October - What do retail banking customers want?- in which he talked about the results of some consumer surveys and the banking industry’s response. The three results Jim discussed were clarity and fairness, easy access and quality customer experience. Interestingly I see all three of these [...]

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Are your systems just interfaces to a data structure?

December 29, 2011

Tad Anderson just wrote a great review of Decision Management Systems, my new book, over on his blog on the SOA World Magazine site. Two of his comments struck me particularly. The first summarized what I consider to be the biggest limiting factor in information systems today:
There are not too many systems being created today [...]

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