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Business Rules

A decision-centric platform delivers traceability

January 28, 2010

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This week I am discussing the characteristics of a decision-centric platform.
Because compliance is essential in decision making, the traceability of decisions and decision making logic to the organization’s objectives, regulations and policies is essential. Business users changing decision making must understand how that change will impact the organization, how it supports the organization’s [...]

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Operational decision making as a corporate asset

January 27, 2010

Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
I often tell companies and other organizations that they should treat decisions and decision making as assets. In Smart (Enough) Systems, the book I wrote with Neil Raden, we said
Operational Decision Making as a Corporate Asset
If operational decisions must be made well for your organization to deliver on its strategy, they [...]

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Working down-under

January 26, 2010

Anyone with project management/rules/decisioning experience interested in working in Australia this year, drop me a note james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com as I might have an opportunity for you.

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A decision-centric platform focuses on decisions

January 25, 2010

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This week I am discussing the characteristics of a decision-centric platform.
First and foremost a suitable platform must focus on decisions. It must support the definition of the decisions involved in running a business separate from the processes and functions that are involved. It should allow the business logic, the rules or semantics, of [...]

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First Look – Wolf Frameworks PaaS

January 25, 2010

Wolf Frameworks is a USA/India PaaS company started in 2006 as a pure play cloud computing platform. They have a front end (AJAX) using XML to communicate to a .NET backend on C#. They have about 3,000 plus people designing software using the platform and have about 13 plus solution providers covering 7 countries. They [...]

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Business processes and decisions – an emerging consensus?

January 21, 2010

Bruce Silver wrote a couple of interesting posts on this topic – Integrating Process and Rules – Part 1 and Part 2. Reading Bruce’s posts, and thinking back on the various posts I have written about business process and business decision management (Risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning, Adding decisioning to your BPM initiative or [...]

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What You Need to Know about Decisioning with Business Rules for 2010 and Beyond with Ron Ross

January 21, 2010

[ February 11, 2010; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] Our first webinar of 2010 is Ron Ross on Decisioning with Business Rules for 2010 and Beyond

How can you achieve an order-of-magnitude improvement in your current way of supporting business processes? Learn how other companies have done it – deliberately and with no silver bullets. In this thoughtful discussion, Ron reviews what leading companies are [...]

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A decision-centric organization

January 19, 2010

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This week I thought I would write about decision-centric organizations. Organizations face many challenges in today’s business climate. Organizations whose success or failure is determined by the decisions they make (which claims to pay, which customers to target, which transactions to investigate for fraud) are handicapped by systems that are centered on processes [...]

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Progress Software and Savvion

January 14, 2010

I got a briefing from my friends at Savvion and their new colleagues at Progress Software (Savvion is being acquired by Progress).
Progress has been positioning itself around operational responsiveness – responding to opportunities and threats in real time, to what’s happening right now: What are competitors doing right now and can we adjust pricing, what [...]

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Smart systems in business

December 22, 2009

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K. Mani Chandy is one of my fellow bloggers on ebizQ and his first post had a title that caught my eye – Smart Systems in Business: A Biological Metaphor. Given my focus on decisions to make smarter systems (or, as Neil and I put it in our book, Smart (Enough) Systems) I [...]

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Quick thoughts on IBM and Lombardi

December 18, 2009

I have been out this week visiting clients and prospective clients on the east coast and so not blogging much. While I was gone IBM announced its acquisition of Lombardi. Now I don’t have much to add to Sandy Kemsley’s excellent post on the topic except to say that Lombardi has also been virulently anti-business [...]

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A predictive enterprise

December 18, 2009

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I was reading an old SPSS presentation the other day and found a great definition of a Predictive Enterprise:
A predictive enterprise:

Derives maximum value from its data assets
Understands its business by gaining deep insight
Leverages advanced analytics to predict outcomes
Turns this knowledge into action to optimize decision making across all areas of its operations

I [...]

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Decision requirements diagram – a neat idea

December 9, 2009

Alan fish has started a blog on decision requirements and recently blogged on The Decision Requirements Diagram. If you are doing business rules or analytics, or better yet decision management, read this now. Fabulous, if straightforward and “obvious”, this is a diagram you should be using. I certainly plan to.

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Speaking at CT Business Rules User Group 12/17/09

December 9, 2009

[ December 17, 2009; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] I am presenting on Decision Management – putting rules and analytics to work at the Connecticut Business Rules User Group on Thursday December 17th at 5:30. This event is open to the public and is free. Registration is required – email president@hartford.theiiba.org. The schedule is:

Doors open at 5:30PM for registration and networking
Meeting Intro: [...]

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Decision Management and Event Processing

December 2, 2009

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My buddy Claye Greene, Principal Consultant at Technology Blue (a Decision Management Solutions partner) wrote a great little article on Decisions and Complex Event Processing that I highly recommend. Like Claye I think Event Processing and Decision Management are highlly complementary and Claye sums it up nicely in his article:
To maximize the success [...]

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Update – Red Hat Jboss Business Rules

December 2, 2009

I got a chance to catch up with the folks from Red Hat recently. I have reviewed the new functionality that Mark Proctor and his team have been adding to turn the old Drools rule engine into a competitive Business Rules Management System or BRMS when the latest release came out. This time we chatted [...]

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Multiple decsioning engines – a reader asks

December 1, 2009

Neeraj asked me an interesting question the other day – how would a decisioning product like Oracle RTD and a business rules engine co-exist? Rather than answering this specifically I thought I would try and generalize it. After all there are products like Unica and Chordiant that also offer decisioning engines that are not general [...]

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First Look – Convergys

November 30, 2009

While I was attending the Business Rules Forum a few weeks back I got my first chance to learn about Convergys. A major sponsor of the event, Convergys is focused on improving the customer experience and customer relationships using decisioning technologies. Building on a history in customer care and billing, Convergys is now a nearly [...]

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Webinar: What is an enterprise rule repository and do I need one?

November 29, 2009

[ December 9, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] Another webinar in the ongoing series this fall. There is growing consensus among business rule practitioners and thought leaders regarding the importance of the rule repository in developing a scalable, sustainable business rule management capability. This session will provide an overview of business rule repositories and identify the three “must have” capabilities for supporting [...]

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A decisioning elevator pitch

November 24, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
So you’re the CIO of a Fortune 500 company and you step into an elevator with your CEO. He asks why the board should approve your seven figure Decision Management budget request. What’s your “elevator pitch” for decisioning?

Is it that decisioning can change the basic assumptions of your business – decoupling growth, revenue [...]

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