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Lunch with Sandy Carter (IBM) and Pierre Haren (ILOG)

March 3, 2008

While attending DIALOG I had a chance to have lunch with Sandy Carter of IBM and Pierre Haren of ILOG. There was a lot of interesting discussion but two key themes caught my attention – business v IT drivers and reuse.
Sandy discussed how top-down SOA being driven by BPM and has an executive focus, although [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Dynamic BPM-Where SOA, Rules, Processes and Events Come Together

February 26, 2008

I missed the customer panel with Travelocity, Equifax, Deloitte Consulting and Bank of America but hopefully the DIABLOGgers got that one too (they did, check here). Next up is Daryl Plummer of Gartner talking about Dynamic BPM—Where SOA, Rules, Processes and Events Come Together.  Daryl started with a great plug for my book and then got [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Making Change Work to Your Advantage

February 25, 2008

After a fascinating lunch with Sandy Carter (of which more later), Steve Demuth gave the BRMS track keynote – Make Change Work to Your Advantage. Steve’s focus is on the potential competitive advantage of rules. Automate decisions, he said, are everywhere – with which I would completely agree – especially if you correctly consider micro [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Best Practices in Agile Business Rules Development

February 24, 2008

Next up was Jerome Boyer presenting the Agile Business Rules Development Methodology, an approach ILOG makes available based on agile methodologies. The methodology has four tracks – Business Process, Data, Business Rules and Architecture. The balance between them varies and all four are built in iterations. ILOG has developed a methodology based on the Rational [...]

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For those (like me) who couldn’t make it to the Gartner BPM Summit

February 11, 2008

If, like me, you could not make it to the Gartner BPM Summit last week, here’s the next best thing. Three people I know well blogged about the conference. Sandy Kemsley, an independent expert on BPM, was the most thorough with David Straus (of Corticon) posting several times and a single post from Jim Sinur [...]

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What needs more agility – processes or decisions?

January 30, 2008

Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi posted A SOA+BPM+CDM Ontology with a very nice graphic showing his point of view when it comes to the various aspects of Business Process Management (BPM), SOA and Event-Driven Architecture(EDA). Given his model, which I liked, Decision Services (wiki) are going to be in the Activity layer – not part of Entity Services [...]

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EDM should be a top priority for CIOs in 2008

January 9, 2008

Allan Alter over at CIO Insight had this article on CIOs Rank Their Top Priorities for 2008. Across all categories of company it was interesting that the top items were:

Delivering better service to customers
Improving business processes
Contributing to the creation of new business strategies
Cutting costs

I don’t know about you but I can see how EDM can [...]

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Decision management and case management

December 14, 2007

I attended a very interesting presentation given by Henk from Cordys this week on Case Management. With Henk’s permission I have posted his slides on Slideshare.net (you can see them embedded below). Case management is an interesting “subset” of Business Process Management. I say “subset” as I don’t think that case management “processes” are really [...]

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What IS the SOA Consortium anyway?

December 13, 2007

I realized yesterday that people might not know what the SOA Consortium is, so I thought I would publish some quick notes. The SOA consortium (www.soa-consortium.org) is a time-limited (2010) advocacy group for business-driven SOA.
In other words they are going to “Promote and enable business agility via SOA to allow businesses to compete, innovate [...]

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A curious reader asks…

December 7, 2007

One of my favorite things to do on my blog is respond to questions from readers. To make it easy to find these going forward I have added a new category – Reader Questions. Email me (james at smartenoughsystems.com) if you have a question you’d like me to answer on the blog. Anyway, this week [...]

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Delivering “Policy-Oriented Enterprise Management”

December 5, 2007

Charlie Bess had an interesting post over on the EDS blog that led me to this article in the November IEEE journal titled: Toward the Realization of Policy-Oriented Enterprise Management (fee charged). The article is by Matthias Kaiser from SAP labs here in my home town. He is doing some research with a group at [...]

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Bridging strategy and technology with enterprise decision management

December 4, 2007

I got an interesting email from Dan Appleton this week. Dan is a principal of The Capabilities Center and his email prompted me to blog today on this topic. Dan’s email introduced his perspective on how business rules, especially in the context of enterprise decision management or EDM. He and I are broadly in agreement [...]

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Just how much agility can SOA (or BPM) really deliver anyway?

November 30, 2007

A couple of links today made me think about agility in the context of BPM and SOA. My friends at Zapthink pointed me to a Tom Sullivan post on backlogs as a measure of success which caught my eye because the use of decision management technologies often reduces IT backlogs (by empowering business users – [...]

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More thoughts on RuleBurst and Haley

November 28, 2007

Having posted some initial thoughts on RuleBurst’s acquisition of Haley, I was lucky enough to get some time with Peter Still, VP Strategy. Peter and I spent an interesting hour discussing the merger and the combined companies plans so I thought I would share some of my thoughts.
The first interesting thing to note is that, [...]

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When is Application Development not Application Development anymore?

November 27, 2007

An interesting post caught my eye recently – Should we still call it Application Development? This seems like an interesting question, particularly when you start considering the decomposition of the application that has taken place over the last decade. Not so long ago, applications (especially enterprise applications) were monolithic. They handled their own data, user [...]

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Jim Sinur’s new blog

November 26, 2007

Jim Sinur, formerly the rules guru over at Gartner and now CSO At Global 360 has a blog to which he has started posting. He already has three posts I found interesting:

The Grey Wave is Coming: BPM has to HelpAutomating decisions is also critical when you start thinking about the impending wave of retirement. Not [...]

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Please don’t just “unify” rules and process

November 19, 2007

Mark Proctor, he of Drools fame, posted today on his vision for unifying rules and processes. Not content with describing me as “large” and “infamous” in a previous post, now he has to get my blood pressure up with this new post! Seriously, though, I am going to disagree with Mark’s basic premise.
For starters, the [...]

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More on integrating rules and processes

November 16, 2007

Sandy Kemsley posted about a presentation on this topic she saw at a recent conference by Michael zur Muehlen – his presentation is here (on slideshare) and is worth a visit. Sandy’s comments were, as usual, to the point and I only have one thing to add. Michael talks about using business rules to automate [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum – Intelligent Process Automation: The Key to Business Process Automation

October 24, 2007

Steve Hendrick of IDC kicked off day 2 with his keynote on Intelligent Process Automation: The Key to Business Process Automation.
Steve started with a story about AMR and SABRE. Back in 80s startup low-cost airlines were putting real pressure on them and they could not meet the price. Thomas Cook came and introduced yield management [...]

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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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