Decision Management Solutions

Here’s how to learn more about Decision Management Systems Platform Technologies

February 13, 2012

We are closing in on the first release of our definitive report on platform technologies for Decision Management Systems. We expect to make the first version available early next week (once we have completed a few production steps). This will provide an overall architecture for these technologies, describe the core product categories (Business Rules Management Systems, [...]

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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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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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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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Building a predictive enterprise – webinar recording

December 19, 2011

I gave a webinar with AllAnalytics on “Using Predictive Analytics: Secrets to Creating a Successful Predictive Enterprise” last week and Shawn Hessinger has just published a nice blog post with a summary. The recorded webinar is here and the slide are below and on SlideShare. As I said in the presentation I believe there are 5 key elements [...]

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Definitive Report on Decision Management Systems Platforms coming in 2012

December 15, 2011

2011 has been a great year for market awareness of Decision Management as an approach and of the value of Decision Management Systems. Product, partnership, acquisition and funding announcements have enhanced the available technology. As vendors continue to improve and enhance their product offerings to fully support Decision Management this is only going to reinforce and further [...]

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Wrapping up the Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research

October 31, 2011

The Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research we have been conducting is coming to an end. We have closed the survey having garnered over 200 business and technical professionals. – thanks to all who participated. We are going to publishing the study findings and survey results in a webinar and a white paper on November [...]

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Your Vote Please! Which Webinars to Re-Record

October 6, 2011

Most unfortunately, our webinar hosting provider Omnovia has lost the audio on our recorded webinars through last June. I will re-record the audio for the most popular webinars. Please “vote” for your favorites by emailing me (a tweet works, too, to @decisionmgt) your top 3 you would like re-recorded. I’ve given them numbers to make [...]

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