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A critical mass in natural-language rules?

November 14, 2007

Heard the news today that RuleBurst (an Australian BRMS vendor) has acquired Haley Systems (a US one). The press release makes a big point of the two companies shared focus on natural language rules and of their contrasting historical markets (Asia/Pacific and Europe v US).
I don’t have any more details beyond the publicly announced ones, [...]

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Interesting discussion of Decision Management available

October 31, 2007

I participated in recording this Business Decision Management roundtable with some folks for Brainstorm Group and I highly recommend it.
Enjoy

Technorati Tags: business decision management, business rules, decision management, EDM, enterprise decision management, predictive analytics, Brainstorm

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Business Rules Forum – a multi-blog wrap up

October 26, 2007

Now I am back from the forum I thought I would blog a quick summary of the posts I found on various blogs. These include mine, Sandy Kemsley’s Column2, David Raab on the Customer Experience and Edison over on the Drools blog.

A framework for selecting business rules platforms
Ron Ross keynote and From Business Rules to [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum (almost) – Vendor Panel

October 26, 2007

One of the interesting panels was the one that Steve Hendrick of IDC hosted where representatives of many of the big players in business rules took questions. I did not attempt to take detailed notes but here are some of the things that struck me:

All the vendors are very focused on providing more tools to [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum (almost) – Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software

October 26, 2007

Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain and I presented on Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software. Scott writes a great blog on requirements.
The slides are on slideshare here

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I reviewed one of the books we referenced, Use Cases: Requirements in Context
Enjoy.

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Live from Business Rules Forum – Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems

October 23, 2007

Neil and I were up next presenting on Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems. Here is the slide deck on Slideshare.

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Live from Business Rules Forum – Insurance 2020: Innovating Beyond Old Models

October 23, 2007

Jamie Bisker was up after lunch talking about Insurance 2020: Innovating Beyond Old Models. Jamie used to be a Tower Group analyst and now works for IBM in their Institute for Business Value (I blogged about his reports before). Studied future customers and their needs, how automation is flattening the competitive environment, what fundamental trends [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum – Business Process Management with Business Rules and Business Intelligence

October 23, 2007

Sandy is my fellow blogger- she blogs at column2 but I met here when we both blogged over on ebizQ (my blog is here). She presented on “Business Process Management with Business Rules and Business Intelligence” and started by pointing out that she has long felt that business rules are essential for business process management [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum – A framework for selecting business rules platforms

October 22, 2007

I am attending the 10th annual Business Rules Forum this week and blogging from sessions as I go. The show really starts tomorrow but John Rymer of Forrester presented a tutorial today – A framework for selecting business rules platforms.
John presented the criteria for the wave report – Forrester’s way of evaluating vendors – rather [...]

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James interviewed on eStrata blog

October 17, 2007

James was interviewed about Smart (Enough) Systems over on eStrata’s Multichannel Musings blog by Don Obregon – Making Smart (Enough) Decisions

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James Interviewed and Book Excerpted on InfoQ

September 19, 2007

Jean-Jacque Dubray interviewed James for InfoQ and the site carried an excerpt of Chapter 10 – Book Excerpt and Review: Smart (Enough) Systems

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James speaking at IASA events

August 6, 2007

James is speaking at a number of IASA IT Architect Regional Conference 2007 events this fall. The book should be available at the events and James will be presenting some key concepts around decision services and enterprise decision management.

Atlanta, September 13-14
Washington DC, October 8-9
San Diego, October -16

Technorati Tags: Decision [...]

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James interviewed on Big Sky Associates’ blog

July 30, 2007

James was interview on Big Sky Thinking, the Big Sky Associates’ blog – Interview with James Taylor, author of “Smart (Enough) Systems“
Technorati Tags: analytics, EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, operational decisions

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James interviewed on Tom Debevoise’s blog

July 25, 2007

James was interviewed by Tom Debevoise and Tom has made the recording available here – Interview with James Taylor, Smart Enough Systems
Technorati Tags: Business Rules, EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, Business Process

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James interviewed by ComputerWire Computergram

July 16, 2007

James was interviewed by Madan Sheina for the July 16th issue of Computergram

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James interviewed on the BizRules Blog

July 13, 2007

James was interviewed by Rolando Hernandez for the BizRules Blog – Interview with Fair Isaac VP James Taylor on EDM and Smart (enough) Systems
Technorati Tags: Business Rules, EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems

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James interviewed on Intelligent Enterprise

July 9, 2007

Doug Henschen of Intelligent Enterprise published a Q&A with James “Smart Systems Without Rocket Science“
Technorati Tags: EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, Intelligent Enterprise

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Book Released

July 2, 2007

The book has now begun shipping from Prentice Hall and should start shipping from amazon.com this week.

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James wrote a white paper on Smart-Enough Decisions

June 29, 2007

James wrote a thought-leadership white paper “Smart-Enough Customer Decisions” for Montgomery Research discussing how smart-enough customer decisions can improve results for all concerned.

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James interviewed on the Customer Experience Matrix

June 29, 2007

James was interviewed by David Raab (who provided a testimonial for the book) of ClientXClient on his blog and you can read the interview here.
Technorati Tags: EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems

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