BRMS

First Look Corticon 5

April 5, 2011

A long established vendor in the business rules management space, Corticon describe themselves as focused on delivering better, faster decisions by automating business rules. They have 450+ customers across insurance, financial services, government, health and ecommerce and say they have seen rapid growth in revenues in 2010 and into 2011. They have just announced Corticon [...]

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Decision Tables in JBoss Drools getting an update

March 31, 2011

The JBoss Drools team sent me a link to a screencam of their latest work on web-based decision tables and rule templates. This latest one – Video demonstrating use of the new Guided Decision Table editor and Templating editor – shows how far they have come.
I did a fair bit of work with the JBoss [...]

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The goal of a Decision Model and Notation Standard

March 29, 2011

Last week I posted from an Object Management Group standards meeting on efforts to develop a Decision Model and Notation standard. You can see my kick-off presentation and the table of contents in the first post of the sequence – OMG Decision Model Notation – Importance of Decisions. In response to this sequence one of [...]

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Discussing a proposal for a decision modeling notation

March 23, 2011

Warning –this is a post about a standards process so there are a fair number of abbreviations – I tried to describe the key ones.
There is a large community of users of business rules management systems, with thousands of large companies using them to automate and improve decisions. In addition, there is a strong sense [...]

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OpenRules and Decision Modeling

March 23, 2011

Jacob Feldman presented to the Object Management Group Decision Modeling Notation meeting on OpenRules – an open source “decision management system”. Jacob argues that OpenRules is a Decision Management System for a number of reasons – besides having a rule engine and a rule engine it also supports automated rule discovery, predictive analytics, an optimization [...]

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RuleGuide for managing decisions and rules

March 23, 2011

Lee Lambert of New Wisdom Software presented on his RuleGuide product (see my first look on RuleGuide) to the group considering a Decision Modeling Notation for the Object Management Group. Lee initially focused on the typical complexity that comes when working with Business Process Management and Business Rules Management. Most projects started with a large [...]

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Decisions in IBM WebSphere/ILOG BRMS

March 23, 2011

Christian de Sainte Marie from the ILOG group at IBM presented to the OMG Decision Model Notation day on the role of decisions in the ILOG Business Rules Management System. Christian started by describing a BRMS (see my brief on what is a BRMS) and the ILOG BRMS in particular. He drilled down a little [...]

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The state of play in automating insurance claims

February 23, 2011

Talking about claims and using Decision Management to improve claims I recently caught up with Donald Light of Celent. Donald recently wrote a new report for Celent – Claims Systems Vendors, North American P/C Insurance 2011. This is the most recent update of the Celent study that evaluates vendors in the claims processing space. The [...]

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Webinar: Legacy modernization with Decision Management and Business Rules

February 1, 2011

Many organizations’ agility and responsiveness is hamstrung by their legacy systems. Replacing them wholesale is impossible but the constraint they impose on the business is unacceptable. In this session I will show how you can use Decision Management and business rules to avoid replacing the whole application while still maximizing [...]

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DM Radio – Obedient Systems and the Value of Business Rules

January 20, 2011

[ September 22, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] I am participating in a DM Radio event Thursday September 22d at 3 ET along with guests Matt Creason of Sybase, Sarah Kohler of Trillium Software, and Russ Johnson of ASA. Register here.

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Future trends in business rules (with a little help from my friends)

January 20, 2011

I was presenting this week to a company that asked what trends I saw in business rules. I had my ow thoughts but I also reached out to some other experience business rules implementers. Here’s what we came up with:

A broader context for business rules

Business rules are increasingly adopted as part of a broader effort [...]

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IDC: Decision Management Market at $10B by 2014

January 18, 2011

The folks at IDC (Dan Vesset, Maureen Fleming, Steve Hendrick, Henry Morris and others) have just released Worldwide Decision Management Software 2010–2014 Forecast: A Fast-Growing Opportunity to Drive the Intelligent Economy – the first ever market sizing for “Decision Management”. This is exciting – it’s great to have a leading research organization like IDC pull [...]

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Humana needs a Blaze Advisor Technology Manager

January 4, 2011

Humana is looking for a Technology Manager to manage the Clinical Business Rules Team in Louisville, KY. They are looking for “a self-starter and a proven leader” who would “enjoy using your technical knowledge to help empower your team to identify and resolve organizational issues”. Role has 12-25 direct reports and reports to a [...]

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Business rules, accelerating change and Decision Management

January 4, 2011

Randy Heffner had a post late last year that I just got to – Business 2011 Gets Faster; Business Rules And SOA Policy Get More Important. Randy makes the key point that while the pace of change means you cannot afford to lock up your business logic in traditional code, you also can’t just let [...]

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Information Week Webinar – What, exactly, do you mean by business rules

December 1, 2010

[ December 9, 2010; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] I am presenting at an IBM/Information Week webinar What, exactly, do you mean by business rules on December 9th. I will try to clear up the confusion between rules and decisions, explaining why this distinction is critical if you expect to incorporate improved agility into your organization’s ability to respond to market demands, competitive actions [...]

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Some thoughts on legacy modernization with business rules

November 18, 2010

I saw this white paper by IBM on Legacy Modernization with business rules and thought I should quickly re-summarize my point of view on this and link to my various posts on the topic. The white paper does a nice, if IBM-centric, job of outlining the key issues:

You don’t need to modernize the whole application
Decision [...]

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Update – Visual Rules 5.0

November 10, 2010

I got an update from the folks at Innovations Software while I was attending this year’s Building Business Capability conference. This week sees the release of Visual Rules 5.0 and it has some great new features. I last wrote about release 4.5 last year.
The big news with this release is web-based authoring of business rules. [...]

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What the business needs from business rules (a thought on mega trends)

November 9, 2010

Syndicated from ebizQ
Last week Carole-Ann posted on 2 MegaTrends at Business Rules Forum 2010. I normally agree with a lot of what she has to say but this time I am going to have to take exception to one of her points. Her second mega trend is that innovation has dried up in the business [...]

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Webinar: Best practices for using JBoss Drools

October 5, 2010

Claye Greene and Kristy Sanders of Technology Blue are giving a webinar on Best practices for using JBoss Drools on November 16th, 2010 at 10am Pacific.
Open source has proven to be a valuable solution for companies looking to lower implementation costs of software solutions. A few years ago open source Decision Management solutions were considered [...]

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Webinar – Simplifying over-complex processes

August 30, 2010

One of the prime causes of over-complex processes is the inclusion of decision-making in process designs. Organizations that identify the decisions in their processes and manage them as peers – not part of the process but supporting it – find they can simplify process designs, increase agility and bring business users and IT into better [...]

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