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Business Rules

IT at the Heart of Real-Time, Personalized Healthcare #PBLS

October 29, 2009

Last session at the SAS/BetterManagement.com event this week on IT and personalized healthcare. Yan Chow of Kaiser Permanente presented on their vision for IT-enabled healthcare. Kaiser is an integrated system with 8.6M patients and 180,000 employees and physicians. Integrated means that insurance/delivery are all aligned and Kaiser is very focused on prevention. It is also [...]

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Beat the Clock with Decision Management

October 26, 2009

I saw this interesting article over the weekend – Beat the Clock « MIT Sloan Management Review.It discusses the power of time, especially consumer time, as a competitive weapon and is well worth a read. It seemed to me as I looked through it that decision management had a lot to offer. There were a [...]

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Webinar: Capture your complex business rules by asking pragmatic questions

October 23, 2009

[ November 17, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] The sixth webinar in the series. Decisioning rules can come by the hundreds or thousands.  These rules often involve large number of criteria. How do you capture that many business rules with so many variations without going crazy?  This presentation outlines a pragmatic approach based on developing business questions to create complex decision tables.  These [...]

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Putting predictive analytics to work with decision management #paw

October 20, 2009

I presented earlier today on Putting predictive analytics to work in operational systems using decision management. Here are the slides. For more, you can check out my webinar on the top 5 principles of decision management.
Putting Predictive Analytics To Work
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You can also download the PDF and you can see the [...]

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Corticon launches RulesWorld – free software

October 19, 2009

Cost, time and expertise are obstacles to business rules adoption. Corticon’s recently announced RulesWorld is designed to let individuals prove the value of rules without cost or risk. RulesWorld is an online community supplying learning materials, samples and forums as well as access to the software itself. All of this at no cost. Users can [...]

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Article on using decison management and BPM together

October 18, 2009

I wrote an article with Vijay Narayanan (of artofsoftwarereuse.com) on using decision management and business process management in combination – Achieving Organization Agility Using Decision Management.

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Accelerating SAP BPM with Business Rules #sapteched09

October 15, 2009

A hands on session at SAP TechEd discussing business rules in the context of SAP Netweaver BPM. The basic pitch was reiterated – business rules embedded in code are hard to maintain, hard to expose to the business users and hard to estimate change costs while rules outside the system are scattered and hard to [...]

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BRFplus – rules and ABAP #sapteched09

October 14, 2009

Carsten Ziegler started off re-iterating the same benefits of business rules that came up when the BPM team discussed rules. He used an insurance policy application and pricing scenario as an illustration. The rules for this scenario are organized into a catalog that contains various rulesets, either if..then rules or a decision table, just like [...]

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SAP BPM – a discussion #sapteched09

October 14, 2009

Sandy Kemsley and I spent an interesting hour discussing SAP BPM with Wolfgang Hilpert.
SAP has recently announced and previewed 7.2 of their Netweaver BPM product (as discussed by Sandy here). While this release was  really focused recently on improving modeling with BPMN there are a number of other improvements:

Creating user interfaces based on these processes [...]

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Blogger roundtable with SAP Research #sapteched09

October 14, 2009

SAP Research is a hidden group almost with hundreds of researchers around the world working on a variety of projects like semantic interoperability, data management and analytics and more. For instance they have been using Google Wave (Gravity) for instance for collaborative BPM, some iphone applications and some cool technology using text analytics.
We discussed the [...]

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Process-centric Composite Applications with SAP Netweaver #sapteched09

October 13, 2009

Composite applications combine various existing functions into a new application, typically managed using a business process or orchestration as the framework. SAP talks about core business processes, those built into the enterprise application backbone,and composite business processes that integrate and extend these processes by reusing the services within them. Specifically a composite application contains:

Workcenter
Where users [...]

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SAP Netweaver Business Rules overview #sapteched09

October 13, 2009

This session was a quick overview of business rules. Business rules, Michael says, represent the constraints and behaviors of your business – your policies, not just your IT rules like database integrity rules. Business rules are owned by the business – eligibility, pricing, CRM practices and so on. Michael divided these rules up into things [...]

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SAP Executive Q&A – #sapteched09

October 13, 2009

Here at SAP Tech Ed 2009 and my first session is an executive Q&A. First up was some discussion of the day’s announcements:

Extension of engagement with HP, integrated Neoview with Business Warehouse so customers can combine Business Objects and Neoview. as well as extending the services relationship (obviously important given HP’s acquisition of EDS).
SAP EcoHub [...]

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Some thoughts on rules, decisions, agility and more

October 9, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
I got an interesting comment on my recent post about the top 4 concerns of CIOs.
Joanne makes a number of points in her comment that I thought should be addressed:
a business rules engine is not nearly enough. What is needed instead is a means to model manage and measure the impact of a [...]

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Decisioning platforms and managing business rules

October 8, 2009

While at the recent Gartner BPM conference (twitter feed at #gartnerbpm) I got some interesting questions from @gagan_s. He saw my posts on the bare essentials of making rules work and @skemsley’s post on my advanced decisioning for process excellence session (recording here).
The first question he asked was a follow-up to Jim Sinur (@jimsinur) saying [...]

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Enhancing BPM with Business Rules and Analytics at Air Products

October 7, 2009

Charlie Lewis of Air Products described how they have been using workflow and business rules (FICO Blaze Advisor). Air Products is a Fortune 300 company that primarily supplies industrial gases in a variety of markets. Charlie begun by describing the communication and work challenges of a diverse company across many countries where different groups have [...]

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Business Rules Management – the misunderstood partner to process

October 6, 2009

Jim Sinur on the topic of business rules management – BRM – and its role as the misunderstood partner for process.  Jim argues you cannot survive, much less thrive, if you do not know your business rules. In particular, you must pull out and make explicit the 30% ff your most volatile rules. These rules [...]

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Dynamic BPM and agility

October 6, 2009

Jim Sinur presented on how companies are preparing for change and using agility as an advantage. Not just as a technology option but as a requirement for transformation. In some sectors this ability to do dynamic BPM is becoming a competitive weapon. Key issues:

how will BPM become more dynamic
what impact will SOA, web, events, governance [...]

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Business Agility Now!

October 6, 2009

Nancy Pearson, who I interviewed recently, discussed IBM’s new Business Agility Now! initiative. IBM launched Smarter Planet about a year ago, focusing on the instrumented, interconnected and intelligent organization. The initiative is being driven by the massive increase in instrumentation (with smaller things being instrumented as well as the natural world), how interconnected organizations have [...]

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Advanced decisioning for process excellence

October 6, 2009

I presented this morning on Advanced decisioning for process excellence and Sandy Kemsley wrote a nice summary over on her blog Column 2 : Advanced decisioning #GartnerBPM.
I gave the session again as a webinar and the recording is available here.
I am going to give the session as a webinar on Thursday of this week (details [...]

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