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Call for presentations – the new EDM Summit

March 11, 2008

How are you integrating business rules and analytics?
How are you adding intelligence to your business processes?
How are you putting analytics to work in your operational systems?
How, in other words, are you using Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) to innovate your business? Your colleagues and peers want to know.

We invite you to present [...]

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Some thoughts on Operational BI from TDWI

February 13, 2008

This morning I watched and listen to two old friends of mine – Wayne Eckerson of TDWI and Dan Graham of Teradata as they gave a webinar on “Approaches to operational BI” (PDF of slides, Webinar Recording). Wayne and Dan did a nice tag team discussing the principles involved and giving some Teradata-specific examples.
Wayne [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum – Turbocharging Business Rules Engines with BI 2.0

October 23, 2007

Charles Nicholls of SeeWhy was up next, talking about Turbocharging business rules with BI 2.0. Charles wrote a nice little eBook called In Search of Insight (it’s free and you can download it here). I have also blogged about SeeWhy a couple of times – here and here.
Charles defined BI 2.0 as a business [...]

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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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Complex Event Processing is not about BI

October 19, 2007

John Trigg over on the Apama blog had a post today – The Opportunity for Business Intelligence: Is it Evolution or Revolution? – that made me think about Complex Event Processing(CEP) and Decision Mangement.
Many of the posts I see about CEP, like John’s, are trying to compare CEP with BI and so-called Operational BI in [...]

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