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Events, Decisions and “Real-Time Intelligence”

October 20, 2008

I am one of the featured speakers in the forthcoming Tibco series on Using Events to Add Real-Time Intelligence. It’s an online event with webinars, “booths”, and real Tibco people available to answer questions. You can register for it here.

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Last chance for the EDM Summit

October 16, 2008

There are only 12 Days Left to register for the first Enterprise Decision Management Summit so get off your butt and register!

Neil and I Co-Chairs and readers of the blog can get a discount. We are presenting twice – A Pre-Conference Tutorial Succeeding as a Decision-Centric Organization and a Keynote Competing [...]

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Decision Services – A Pattern for SOA

October 7, 2008

I just finished presenting at the SOA Symposium and if you are interested in my presentation you can find it on slideshare.
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New Community for Fair Isaac customers and others

September 30, 2008

The folks at Fair Isaac pointed me to a new community they have just released – dmtools.fairisaac.com. I have not had much of a chance to check it out but it looks useful and I look forward to participating. One thing is new – you can download trial versions of Blaze Advisor. Have fun…

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Putting Analytics to Work

September 22, 2008

Here’s my presentation from the InfoCentricity User Exchange. Enjoy.
Putting Analytics To Work
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: predictive analyticsanalyticedmente…)

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Speaking in Brussels Evening of October 10th

September 12, 2008

Thanks to my friend Jan I will be giving a seminar at SAI – the Belgian ‘Study Center for Information Processing’ – in the evening of October 10th. You can find details here – I am speaking on ‘Decision Services’: A pattern for business rules in Service Oriented Systems and Architectures.

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SOA Symposium in Amsterdam – Free Pass

September 11, 2008

As I said before I am speaking at the SOA Symposium in Amsterdam in October – “Decision Services: A Pattern for Smarter Service-Oriented Systems“. I think the conference will be great and I hope to meet some readers there but, if you are local, I have an even better offer. I can bring a couple [...]

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links for 2008-09-10

September 10, 2008

Complex Event Processing (CEP) Blog » CEP vs Decision Management
(tags: CEP complex event process decisin management)

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Great event, nice little discount

September 3, 2008

There is a great conference coming up October 26-30 – not only are Neil and I Co-Chairs but readers of the blog can get a discount. We are presenting twice – A Pre-Conference Tutorial Succeeding as a Decision-Centric Organization and a Keynote Competing on Decisions. Because of this you can get [...]

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Shameless Commerce – Coming to Europe

August 28, 2008

I am going to be in Europe in October and I am looking to productively fill a couple of days in my schedule. I am available Friday the 3rd, Monday the 6th and possibly Wednesday the 8th. If you are based in the London – Paris – Brussels – Munich – Frankfurt area and are [...]

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Neil Speaking at Brainstorm San Francisco

August 26, 2008

Neil has a new speaking gig – he is going to be speaking at Brainstorm San Francisco on “Applying Decision Management to Make Process Simpler, Smarter and More Agile”, October 1st in the morning. You can find the agenda here and register here.

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On vacation

August 15, 2008

Well I am off to the mountains for a vacation with no email, no cell phone, no twitter and no blogging. I have queued up some posts for you so you won’t miss me too much but don’t expect a reply until after the 25th.
Have fun

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Decision Management job (kinda) at Wachovia

August 14, 2008

Got another question about a job today. This time Jim Fahy sent me this one:
Director, Insight and Innovation Advanced Capabilities
The Insight and Innovation group combines a customer analysis group; research and targeting; and the analytics reporting and technology team formerly housed in a corporate customer service excellence structure.   The customer and market insights that [...]

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Decision Management Jobs – New Category, First Post

July 30, 2008

Occasionally people ask me if I know someone who might be interested in a particular job so I have decided, for now, to post such requests on the blog so you can all see them. If I get too many then I will come up with something else. Here’s the first:
Marketelligent is a Bangalore-based consulting [...]

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Here are some opportunities to hear Neil and James speak

July 29, 2008

We have a number of speaking engagements in the next few months and I thought I would highlight them on the blog today. Arranged in date order…

August 6th, 10am Pacific Time, “How to leverage scorecards for accurate risk management”
Webinar, multiple speakers including James, sponsored by ILOG
August 19th, 8:30am Pacific Time, Reinventing BI with Real-Time Analytics: [...]

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Articles on Operational BI and Competing on Decisions

July 29, 2008

Mike Ferguson posted on his blog a few weeks ago – Operational BI – Extended BI System Or Brand New Architecture? – and this prompted me to write an article for b-eye network – From Operational Business Intelligence to Competing on Decisions. This article is my second on my b-eye-network channel and there will be [...]

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Breaking News – IBM to buy ILOG!

July 28, 2008

Just heard that ILOG is going to be acquired by IBM! I don’t have any more detail yet but hopefully the folks at ILOG and IBM will brief me sometime soon…..

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Learn about the mortgage industry, rules and scorecards

July 24, 2008

ILOG is running a webinar titled “How to Leverage Scorecards for Accurate Risk Management” on Wednesday, August 6 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific / 1:00 p.m. Eastern. Anthony Garritano, editor of Mortgage Technology magazine, me (James) and Janet Wall from ILOG will share presentation duties and give you a quick look at the mortgage industry, how [...]

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Ask an Expert – a Video Blog

July 24, 2008

The folks over at b-eye network have a video blog with answers to questions submitted by readers – the Ask an Expert Video Blog. This looks like a fun way to get an answer to any BI, data or analytic decision making question you might have. If you have something you want to discuss, go [...]

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A meta post – blogging about blogging

July 9, 2008

Laura Ramos of Forrester just published a nice report on blogging – How To Derive Value From B2B Blogging. It’s a nice little report (well worth $379 ) and in it she lays out four compelling ways to derive value from a corporate blog:

Strategy One: Be A Conversation Starter, Not A Spoiler
In particular I [...]

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