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24th November 2008

Results of a survey on verification of business rules

Some time ago I linked to an interesting looking research project and the results are now available – Development and Verification of Rule Based Systems – a Survey of Developers. Valentin did a nice job summarizing the results, comparing them to a previous study of more academic projects and drawing some distinctions between academic and [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules | 0 Comments

3rd November 2008

EDM Summit – some closing thoughts

I thought I would wrap up with some closing thoughts for the week:

Lots of discussion of the importance of data – understanding it, integrating it, cleaning it and making the same data available to those reporting on it, doing analytics with it and running operational systems.
Interesting times in the rules market with recent acquisitions by [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Data Mining, Decision Management, News, Optimization | 0 Comments

28th October 2008

Risk Management at Sun

Risk management is necessary at Sun as new products are constantly being introduced. Each time there are challenges getting information out to people. Also find the same problem repeatedly in different geographies and were challenged to share information about problems and solutions between teams. By 2001 they found over 300 user developed applications supporting risk [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules | 1 Comment

16th October 2008

Last chance for the EDM Summit

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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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Data Mining, Decision Management, News, Optimization | 0 Comments

5th September 2008

Decisions matter to Complex Event Processing

An old colleague asked me to explain a little about the difference between Complex Event Processing or CEP and decision management. In particular he referenced a recent series of articles by James Kobelius in which the last one (titled Really Happy in Real Time) discussed how “Complex event processing empowers the contact center to manage [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Decision Management | 2 Comments

1st August 2008

Believe in business rules (I do)

Earlier this week I posted Application Development 2.0 in which I addressed what I see as some of the issues with current development practices and tried to explain why I think a declarative, business rules approach is essential. This (and some blog posts around the blogosphere) made me think about the mismatch I see when [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules | 5 Comments

31st July 2008

InfoWorld Review of ILOG Rules for .NET

My friend Steve has been using the ILOG Rules for .NET product (which you can now download for an extended trial as I discussed here) and has written a nice little review of it – Lab test: ILOG Rules for .Net meshes well with Microsoft. There’s a lot to like in the .Net version of [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules | 0 Comments

30th July 2008

Application Development 2.0

Ann All had a post on Agile development brings IT, business together that had the great phrase “application development 2.0″. In the article she mentioned some very worthy objectives for this 2.0 version of application development. Here they are, paraphrased slightly.

Encourage close collaboration between developers and end users
Involve users in quality assurance processes
Don’t use traditional [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules | 7 Comments

28th July 2008

First thoughts on the IBM/ILOG announcement

I got a chance to speak with ILOG today and do some thinking so it’s time to write more about the IBM and ILOG announcement. As it is an acquisition of one publicly traded company by another neither company can legally say very much. As a result I, like everyone else, have a bunch of [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization, Product News | 13 Comments

28th July 2008

Breaking News – IBM to buy ILOG!

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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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, News, Optimization | 0 Comments

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