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Analytics in a Multichannel World

July 27, 2009

A short article I wrote on Analytics in a Multichannel World has been published on destinationCRM.com. Enjoy.

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Blog updates

July 16, 2009

I am going through an update on the blog – hopefully you can already see a cleaner look. Over the next few weeks I will be upgrading the home page and improving the navigation etc. Let me know if you have any feedback (james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com) and if you have features/styles you like please send me a [...]

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Predictive Analytics World Conference: Agenda

July 15, 2009

I am speaking at Predictive Analytics World in October and they have just published the Predictive Analytics World Conference Agenda. This is the second running of this show and the first, in San Francisco earlier this year, was great so I highly recommend it.
You can register for the event here, check out my session or [...]

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New books on JBoss Drools

July 13, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
I have recently been a reviewer for Michal Bali’s new book on Drools (Drools JBoss Rules 5.0 Developer’s Guide), which will soon be generally available. In the meantime you could check out an example of the style by reading this two part article on Drools JBoss Rules 5.0 Flow – Part 1 and [...]

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Financial Services Analysis For Free

July 7, 2009

If you work at a Financial Services organization there is a great new source of free information. Chris Pratt, formerly of Tower Group and Financial Insights has started her own firm – Pratt Associates. She covers credit solutions, scoring/analytics, core banking and BPM solutions. Chris really knows the space and understands how banks work and [...]

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Decision Management Event Calendar for July 3

July 3, 2009

This week’s event calendar is below. The intent of this weekly post is to focus on web events coming in the next few weeks and conferences in the coming months. If you know about web or physical events around business rules, analytics, optimization or decision management, please let me know – james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com.
Web Events:

Silverlink: Applying Analytics [...]

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Decision Management Event Calendar for June 12 2009

June 12, 2009

This week’s event calendar is below. The intent of this weekly post is to focus on web events coming in the next few weeks though I will start to add some longer term conference links. Anyone who knows about web or physical events around business rules, analytics, optimization or decision management, please let me know [...]

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Decision Management Event Calendar

June 5, 2009

I have decided to start running a post at the end of the week highlighting relevant web events for the following week. If you work at a vendor and want to tell me about yours, please send me an email at james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com. Likewise if you hear of something you think other readers of the blog [...]

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Free webinar on Mainframes, SOA and Decision Management

May 21, 2009

I am presenting, with Claye Greene of technologyblue, on the path to business agility and lower costs: Mainframes, SOA and Decision Management. The webinar is on June 2nd at 7:30am Pacific time (scheduled specifically for folks in Pittsburgh and vicinity) and will cover how applying Decision Management, SOA and Business Rules Management Systems can renovate [...]

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JRules contract in California

May 6, 2009

Quick job post – heard about a short-term (3 month+) contract in Sacremento for a JRules developer with experience, preferably with JRules 6.x. W2 only contract (no 3rd parties, no visas).
If you are interested, and qualified, drop Matthew Haver a line at Amerit Consulting – mhaver@ameritconsulting.com. You can check Matt out on LinkedIn – http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewhaver

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Almost Intellectual Systems

April 30, 2009

Well it finally happened – Neil and I became internationally published authors! Check out this link and what you see is a Russian version of Smart (Enough) Systems, the book on Decision Management we published a little while back. If any of my readers are Russian speakers and get hold of a copy in the [...]

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Would IBM buying Sun impact the decision management market? Nope.

March 18, 2009

As my twitter feed starting warming up with thoughts on IBM and Sun I started to think – what impact would this have on the decision management market? I read what Steve Hamm had to say over on BusinessWeek – Why IBM Wants Sun and Tony Baer’s IBM buying Sun. Why Bother? But decision management [...]

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Opportunities to meet me or hear me speak

March 18, 2009

While the blog has a list of my forthcoming speaking engagements on the sidebar, I realize that some of you only ever see the feed so I thought I would do a post with some upcoming opportunities to see or hear me in the wild.
If you just want to meet me, you could catch me [...]

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The Institute of Warranty Chain Management

March 11, 2009

Glen Griffths gave an update on the Institute of Warranty Chain Management. Glen freely admitted that his purpose was to sell the Institute of Warranty Chain Management and, in particular, the membership benefits of the institute. ICWM costs just $125 for individual members which, as he pointed out, is not much compared with the $72B [...]

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Check out this new technology article portal

January 16, 2009

I have been working with some folks in the NE who have launched a new technology article portal – e-technologymanagement.com.This has a number of focus areas, notably SOA, Agile and Decision Management (in which I am involved, obviously). The portal is just getting started so check it out and subscribe to the feed. You can [...]

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Webinar on the ROI of business rules in decision management

January 8, 2009

On January 28, 2009 I am going to be participating in a webinar with InRule on “Quantifying Improved Decision Management: The Value of Rules“. The webinar is free runs for an hour starting at 8am Pacific (11am Eastern). The webinar will discuss decision management and business rules and the kind of ROI people see. It [...]

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Merry Christmas

December 24, 2008

That’s it for me – off to the mountains this week. More posts in the new year. Meanwhile don’t forget to change your feed over to feeds.feedburner.com/jtonedm. Happy Holidays.

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Have you changed your feed yet?

December 20, 2008

Just a quick reminder that if you want to keep reading the blog in 2009 you will need to change your feed from feeds.feedburner.com/smartenoughsystems to http://feeds.feedburner.com/jtonedm. For now it is automatically redirecting but that will only last a couple more weeks.

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WordPress upgrade

December 13, 2008

I upgraded to WordPress 2.7 this weekend plus I removed some categories and replaced them with tags (to shorten the category list), added a tag cloud (lower right column) and fixed problems with the images. If you find any problems, drop me a line.

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New blog location

November 29, 2008

Well as you might have noticed I have a new blog location – jtonedm.com (JT on EDM). The blog on smartenoughsystems.com/wp is now retired and all the posts will redirect here.
If you have a link to the smartenoughsystems blog please move it – just replace smartenoughsystems.com/wp with jtonedm.com (note the dropping of the /wp).

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