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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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Book Review by Ade McCormack

June 30, 2008

Ade McCormack, author of The IT Value Stack (reviewed previously) and columnist at the FT in England, just reviewed the book for this blog. You can read his review of Smart (Enough) Systems over on his blog.

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4 more days to get a FREE iTouch

June 26, 2008

Remember the 1st Enterprise Decision Management Summit and the 11th International Business Rules Forum ? October 26-30, 2008 at the Buena Vista Palace, Orlando FL. Don’t forget that as a reader of this blog we are able to offer you a special, one-time offer as an honorary member of the Friends and Family of the [...]

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Technical rules event in Dallas

June 19, 2008

James Owen and others have been organizing what they bill as a technical rules event in Dallas this October. It’s the 22nd to the 24th (so it doesn’t clash with the EDM Summit) Here’s the agenda. They have some great speakers and some interesting experts participating so it should be worthwhile for those among [...]

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Intalio 2.0

June 18, 2008

Ismael Ghalimi presented his vision of “what’s next” and started with some history. In 1998 he started work on what he now calls “Office 2.0″ and, while prototyping ideas, he met the other founders and started to put together a plan for a platform that would allow him (a self-confessed poor programmer) to build web [...]

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Why don’t you replace COBOL with something useful (not Java)

June 13, 2008

Joe McKendrick in his Eye on the Enterprise blog had a post on legacy modernization – Time to Cut COBOL from Life Support in which he referenced a post by James McGovern The mainframe is not evil, but COBOL is… in which James says
that there’s no reason why aging COBOL apps can’t be replaced with [...]

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The power and challenges of decision management packages

June 8, 2008

David Greer had a cutely named post this week – The Engine That Can. David and I had a nice chat about eOptimize a few days ago and I thought I would respond to his post with some thoughts of my own. eOptimize’s product is unlike those often described as decision management applications – it [...]

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Neil presenting in the smart semanticsâ„¢ series on data integration: what’s next?

June 5, 2008

Neil Raden, Co-Founder here at Smart (enough) Systems, is joining John Russell, Chief Scientist of   expressor software on June 19, 2008 at 2 p.m. ET
Here’s the blurb:
Today’s data integration (DI) tools claim to offer significant benefits in implementation and ongoing support. However, design and specification consume much of the effort in a DI project. [...]

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Come to the first ever EDM Summit and a special offer

June 4, 2008

1st Enterprise Decision Management Summit and the 11th International Business Rules Forum
October 26-30, 2008 at the Buena Vista Palace, Orlando FL.
I am pleased to announce that we have published the agenda for the Enterprise Decision Management Summit and Business Rules Forum. This is the first time we have run the EDM Summit and we have [...]

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When is a cockpit not a cockpit?

May 30, 2008

When it’s a dashboard.
I often hear people talk about fighter pilots as a model for the future of business users. For instance, Ade McCormack did in his book on the IT value stack. Indeed this is such a good mental image that many companies use it – either to promote their products or to talk [...]

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Come to the Intalio User Conference and get the book for free!

May 29, 2008

Neil and I are going to be speaking (on Applying Decision Management to Make Processes Smarter, Simpler and More Agile) at the Intalio User Conference on June 17th and the nice folks at Intalio have decided that everyone who attends deserves a copy of the book. While I am sure that all the attendees are [...]

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