JT on EDM

This week’s event calendar is below. The intent of this weekly post is to focus on web events coming in the next few weeks and conferences in the coming months. If you know about web or physical events around business rules, analytics, optimization or decision management, please let me know – james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com.
Web Events:

Silverlink: Applying Analytics [...]

The International Business Rules Forum™ is the premier Conference dedicated to Business Rules, where the future of Business Rules, Decisioning, Compliance & Enterprise Design is taking shape! This year’s event covers Business Rules, Decision Management, Business Process, Governance and Compliance. Once again I will be giving a tutorial and a keynote and acting as track [...]

At last year’s Business Rules Forum I participated in a great panel on future trends in business rules and decision management with Ron Ross of BR Solutions, Don Baisley of Microsoft and Jim Sinur of Gartner. You can check out the transcript on BR Community.
Don’t forget this year’s event – the premier opportunity to learn [...]

Enterprise Decision Management Summit 2009
at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nov. 1-5, 2009

Business Rules
Decision Management
Business Alignment Symposium – New!
“How-to” Project Labs – New!
Business Process Management Track – New!
CEP Workshop – New!

Make sure you’re on the Business Rules Forum mailing list – sign-up [...]

The EDM Summit is going to Las Vegas, Nov 1-5, 2009
Mark Your Calendars!
The 2009 event will be bigger and better than ever. In addition to the usual focus on business rules and intelligent decisioning (chaired by yours-truly), there are going to be a Business Alignment Symposium and “How-To” Project Labs to deliver [...]

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 [...]

Day 3 starts early – 8am for the first session. The Expo closed yesterday and today will be just content. Yesterday was an interesting day with lots of discussion among the attendees of the Oracle acquisition of Haley. Here are the blog posts I found for yesterday

2008 Business Rules Forum – Day 1
2008 Business [...]

Getting ready for my keynote and wanted to post a few quick things. Firstly other bloggers: Sandy Kemsley, Paul Vincent and Mike Kaviz are all here and are/will be posting. Here are the links I found so far:

Business Rules Forum: Vendor Panel
Business Rules Forum: Mixing Rules and Process
Business Rules Forum: Ron Ross keynote
Business Intelligence meets [...]

Next week Neil and I will be at the EDM Summit/Business Rules Forum the whole week so say hi if you are there and look for posts from the show.

There is a great conference coming up October 26-30 – not only are Neil and I Co-Chairs but 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 on Decisions. Because of this you can get [...]