business rules engine

First Look – Web Rule 2.0

March 28, 2012

I have blogged about code effects’ Web Rule product before. This rule editor and execution environment supports both execution rules (that have an action to take) and evaluation rules (that just return true/false) as well as an IntelliSense/type ahead editor based on an XML object model. Rules in this product are closer to a ruleset [...]

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First Look – USoft

February 14, 2012

USoft has been a vendor in the Decision Management space for a while. They started as Comtecno in 1986, become part of Unisys in 1995 then Ness Benelux in 1999 before returning to their current status as an independent Dutch software company in 2010 as USoft B.V. The software has had a much more consistent [...]

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Business Rules Forum Panel: Business Rules Vendor Panel

May 17, 2011

[ November 1, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] I will be moderating the Business Rules Vendor Panel at 3pm Eastern November 1 at the Business Rules Forum in Florida. This is normally a great chance to hear the people who are building the next generation of business rules technology talk about the industry.

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Two videos of me discussing the power of business rules

February 7, 2011

I am doing a series of videos with the folks at Bosch Software Innovations (the folks behind Visual Rules) and the first two have been published to YouTube:

Visual Rules 5.0 discussed
Successfully Align Business & IT

Look for more in the coming weeks. You can also find them favorited on my YouTube channel that has some other [...]

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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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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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Right Time Business Optimization

October 29, 2010

Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
Mike Ferguson presented on Right Time Business Optimization using on-demand and event-driven analytics at the Teradata Partners conference. Business optimization, Mike says, is about continuously knowing what is the best action to take and when to take it in every business process to dynamically keep a business [...]

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Decision Services need more than rules – #rulesfest

October 12, 2010

I just completed my presentation at RulesFest so here are the key points.
For the RulesFest audience I assumed that either they were already using business rules or at least that they plan to be, and that  they knew what a rule engine is and how it works. Before going on to my five points, let [...]

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Scorecards – one place where rules and analytics meet

August 18, 2010

Eric Charpentier had a nice introduction to scorecards overs on his blog. He does a nice job of describing an additive scorecard, that is a scorecard designed to represent a predictive analytic algorithm (not to be confused with a dashboard-like scorecard). He does not talk much about reason codes – the ability of a scorecard [...]

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Speaking at RulesFest 2010

July 27, 2010

[ October 12, 2010; 10:00 am to 10:50 am. 10:00 am to 10:50 am. ]

I am going to be speaking at Rules Fest 2010 – the International Conference on Reasoning Technologies. I am speaking on Tuesday October 12, 10:00am on “Decision Services Need More Than Rules”. The conference is October 11-14 at the Dolce Hayes Mansion Resort, San Jose, CA. Rules Fest bills itself as the world’s only [...]

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Paying for rules by the rule with IDIOM

April 20, 2010

I have blogged about the folks at IDIOM before and I recently heard that they are making IDIOM Decision Manager available under a new free/very low cost price plan. Not a trial or test plan, but a real pricing model that supports commercial development and full ownership of generated code at what can only be [...]

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Multiple decsioning engines – a reader asks

December 1, 2009

Neeraj asked me an interesting question the other day – how would a decisioning product like Oracle RTD and a business rules engine co-exist? Rather than answering this specifically I thought I would try and generalize it. After all there are products like Unica and Chordiant that also offer decisioning engines that are not general [...]

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BRFplus – rules and ABAP #sapteched09

October 14, 2009

Carsten Ziegler started off re-iterating the same benefits of business rules that came up when the BPM team discussed rules. He used an insurance policy application and pricing scenario as an illustration. The rules for this scenario are organized into a catalog that contains various rulesets, either if..then rules or a decision table, just like [...]

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SAP Netweaver Business Rules overview #sapteched09

October 13, 2009

This session was a quick overview of business rules. Business rules, Michael says, represent the constraints and behaviors of your business – your policies, not just your IT rules like database integrity rules. Business rules are owned by the business – eligibility, pricing, CRM practices and so on. Michael divided these rules up into things [...]

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Some thoughts on rules, decisions, agility and more

October 9, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
I got an interesting comment on my recent post about the top 4 concerns of CIOs.
Joanne makes a number of points in her comment that I thought should be addressed:
a business rules engine is not nearly enough. What is needed instead is a means to model manage and measure the impact of a [...]

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Enhancing BPM with Business Rules and Analytics at Air Products

October 7, 2009

Charlie Lewis of Air Products described how they have been using workflow and business rules (FICO Blaze Advisor). Air Products is a Fortune 300 company that primarily supplies industrial gases in a variety of markets. Charlie begun by describing the communication and work challenges of a diverse company across many countries where different groups have [...]

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Business Rules Management – the misunderstood partner to process

October 6, 2009

Jim Sinur on the topic of business rules management – BRM – and its role as the misunderstood partner for process.  Jim argues you cannot survive, much less thrive, if you do not know your business rules. In particular, you must pull out and make explicit the 30% ff your most volatile rules. These rules [...]

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Webinar: 10 lessons from implementing business rules management systems

September 29, 2009

The fifth webinar in the series. What do you really need to know when you start implementing a business rules management system? What can go wrong and what must you watch carefully? In this webinar you will learn 10 hard-earned rules for successful adoption and implementation of business rules management systems.
Claye Greene is the Principal [...]

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SAP NetWeaver BPM reviewed

August 23, 2009

Sandy Kemsley has posted a long and detailed review of SAP Netweaver BPM on her blog. It sounds like they have done some good work integrating the Yasu rules engine. Obviously she has better luck getting people at SAP to brief her than I do! Hopefully one day I will have something to add on [...]

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A Realistic View of Business Rules Engines

August 4, 2009

I just published an article on BR Community – A Realistic View of Business Rules Engines – and as the four fallacies I tackle are pretty widely held you should check it out.

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