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Come to the first ever EDM Summit and a special offer

June 4, 2008

1st Enterprise Decision Management Summit and the 11th International Business Rules Forum
October 26-30, 2008 at the Buena Vista Palace, Orlando FL.
I am pleased to announce that we have published the agenda for the Enterprise Decision Management Summit and Business Rules Forum. This is the first time we have run the EDM Summit and we have [...]

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Two Great Decision Management Conferences this year

April 17, 2008

I am involved in two great decision management conferences this year and I wanted to quickly post about them to encourage you to attend – apologies to readers of my other blogs who may see this information more than once.
First up is InterACT, Fair Isaac’s show on decision management and analytics, April 27-30. I will [...]

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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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From business rules to enterprise decisioning (again)

November 14, 2007

Ron Ross recently gave his keynote from the Business Rules Forum as a webinar. You can access the recording (free registration required) here. It’s a great overview and well worth your time.

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Business Rules Forum – a multi-blog wrap up

October 26, 2007

Now I am back from the forum I thought I would blog a quick summary of the posts I found on various blogs. These include mine, Sandy Kemsley’s Column2, David Raab on the Customer Experience and Edison over on the Drools blog.

A framework for selecting business rules platforms
Ron Ross keynote and From Business Rules to [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum (almost) – Vendor Panel

October 26, 2007

One of the interesting panels was the one that Steve Hendrick of IDC hosted where representatives of many of the big players in business rules took questions. I did not attempt to take detailed notes but here are some of the things that struck me:

All the vendors are very focused on providing more tools to [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum (almost) – Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software

October 26, 2007

Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain and I presented on Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software. Scott writes a great blog on requirements.
The slides are on slideshare here

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I reviewed one of the books we referenced, Use Cases: Requirements in Context
Enjoy.

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Live from Business Rules Forum (almost) – Top 10 Data Dangers When Discovering Business Rules

October 26, 2007

John Elder was next. John is a well-known data mining expert who runs Elder Research Inc. John was presenting on Top 10 Data Dangers When Discovering Business Rules. John’s focus was on data mining and other analytics techniques and he presented his top 10 mistakes:

Lack DataFor instance fraud cases can be so rare in a [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum – Combining the Power of Analytics and Business Rules to Drive Enterprise Decisioning Solutions

October 24, 2007

David Proctor of Experian gave the next session I attended on Combining the Power of Analytics and Business Rules to Drive Enterprise Decisioning Solutions.
He started by talking about the criticality of business rules and the value of managing them. In particular the ability to being experts into a collaborative approach. David then gave a [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum – Reaping the Benefits of Rules through SOA and Business Rule Management at Travelers

October 24, 2007

Alan Weiss of Travelers and Brian Stucky of InScope presented on Reaping the Benefits of Rules through SOA and Business Rule Management at Travelers. Travelers is a Fortune 100 insurance carrier and Alan is part of a group focused on moving control over processing into the business. The key purpose of business rules in this [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum – Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems

October 23, 2007

Neil and I were up next presenting on Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems. Here is the slide deck on Slideshare.

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Live from Business Rules Forum – Insurance 2020: Innovating Beyond Old Models

October 23, 2007

Jamie Bisker was up after lunch talking about Insurance 2020: Innovating Beyond Old Models. Jamie used to be a Tower Group analyst and now works for IBM in their Institute for Business Value (I blogged about his reports before). Studied future customers and their needs, how automation is flattening the competitive environment, what fundamental trends [...]

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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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Live from Business Rules Forum – From Business Rules to Enterprise Decisioning

October 23, 2007

Ron Ross kicked off the main sessions today with his keynote “From Business Rules to Enterprise Decisioning“. He opened by saying that it is easy to think that everything that can be automated, has been. Yet there is a clear gap between what our existing systems can do and what we need. Part of this [...]

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