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Live Event: Introduction to Decision Management (Dresden)

May 22, 2012

[ June 7, 2012; 8:00 am to 10:00 am. ] I am speaking at an event in Dresden, Germany on Decision Management (details here) on June 7 17:00 – 19:00 CET. I will be giving an introduction to Decision Management.
Business processes and business logic are two sides of same coin. Without an explicit consideration of business rules, process models can be incomplete and topics such as [...]

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Business Rules, Decision Management and ASUG

May 14, 2012

I do a lot of work with companies and organizations adopting business rules and Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) such as BRFplus and NetWeaver BRM. I wanted to share two things (as I head off to Sapphire/ASUG).
First, I often find that when organizations start with business rules they begin by just trying to capture business [...]

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Still time to register for our European Decision Management Training

May 3, 2012

There’s still time to register for the 2-day workshop in Europe next month. This covers the essentials of Decision Management, the effective use of business rules and Business Rules Management Systems and the role of analytics:

Berlin – June 4/5 – Register here.

The class covers:

An introduction to Decisions and Decision Management
Categorizing and identifying decisions
Characteristics and design of [...]

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Decision Management, IBM IMPACT and becoming an IBM Champion

April 25, 2012

I have been going to IBM IMPACT for a couple of years now. This year’s event is just around the corner – it starts on Sunday – and I am particularly excited about this one. While it’s not the first at which I have spoken, nor the first where there have been sessions on Decision [...]

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First Look – Progress Corticon Update

April 24, 2012

Progress Corticon Business Rules Management System (BRMS) v5.2 was delivered in February and focused on key enhancements for natural language support, mobility, and Progress Software integration.  Since the first version nearly a decade ago, Corticon has focused on offering easy-to-use tools to express and manage decision making logic.  The Corticon business rules expression language is [...]

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Early bird pricing on European training expiring

April 23, 2012

The early bird pricing on our 2-day workshop in Europe expires this week. This workshop cover the essentials of Decision Management, the effective use of business rules and Business Rules Management Systems and the role of analytics:

Berlin – June 4/5 – Register here.

The class covers:

An introduction to Decisions and Decision Management
Categorizing and identifying decisions
Characteristics and design [...]

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First Look – Sapiens DECISION

April 12, 2012

Sapiens has been around for over 25 years developing technology solutions around business rules and model-based development, specifically in financial services and insurance. Established in 1982 and NASDAQ traded, they have $100M in annual revenues post a couple of recent mergers. They have over 750 employees in US, Canada, UK, Japan, Australia, Belgium and Israel. [...]

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Decision Management Training in Europe this June

April 11, 2012

I am giving a 2-day workshop on the essentials of Decision Management, the effective use of business rules and Business Rules Management Systems and the role of analytics in Europe this June:

Berlin – June 4/5 – Register here.

Organizations must understand how to identify and classify decisions and how to assess the potential for business rules [...]

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Decision Management and the 4Ds

April 10, 2012

A recent new twitter follower had an interesting post on his blog back in 2010 - The 4Ds “Detect, Derive, Decide and Do. I liked the description of this pattern and as it is a common one for Decision Management Systems I thought I would make a couple of quick comments:

The Derive piece of this pattern [...]

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Live Event – Sapphire: Smarter, Simpler Applications with Decision Service Management

March 26, 2012

[ May 16, 2012; 12:00 pm to 12:45 pm. ] I am hosting a micro-forum at SAP’s Sapphire/ASUG event this year on “Smarter, Simpler Applications with Decision Service Management” with Carsten Ziegler, author of a great book on SAP’s rule engine BRFplus.
This discussion focuses on decision service management (DSM) – a strategy that helps make business processes and systems more efficient and more agile. Learn how DSM [...]

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Live Event – Sapphire: Flexible, Easy-to-Change & Rock-Solid Apps with BRFplus

March 26, 2012

[ May 16, 2012; 1:15 pm; ] I am co-presenting at SAP’s Sapphire/ASUG event this year on “Building Flexible, Easy-to-Change and Rock-Solid Applications with BRFplus Decision Services” with Carsten Ziegler, author of a great book on SAP’s rule engine BRFplus.
SAP ABAP business applications can be rightly described as high performance, robust and rock-solid. Making them also flexible and easy to change is a [...]

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Decision Management Systems Platform Technologies online now

March 20, 2012

Our new report on Decision Management Systems Platform Technologies has been available for download for a while now and thousands of you have downloaded it. To make it even easier to access (the PDF does not require a registration even) we have made it available online in the main report webpage – just scroll down [...]

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Book Review: Knowledge Automation: How to implement Decision Management in Business Processes

March 13, 2012

Some time ago I got a pre-release copy of Knowledge Automation: How to Implement Decision Management in Business Processes, Alan Fish’s new book on the analysis and design techniques of decision management. I was delighted to write a foreword for Alan and with the arrival of a printed copy I wanted to extend this with [...]

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Overlapping Decision Management Technologies Product Categories

March 6, 2012

We have released the first version of our Decision Management Systems Platform Technology report. This report is available free for download from http://www.decisionmanagementsolutions.com/decision-management-technology.
One of the challenges is that multiple product categories exist in the market for the capabilities we discuss in the report. These product categories often overlap.

While there are many Business Rules Management Systems [...]

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Key Decision Management Technologies Product Characteristics

March 1, 2012

As regular readers know, we have released the first version of our Decision Management Systems Platform Technology report. This report is available free for download from http://www.decisionmanagementsolutions.com/decision-management-technology. This version of the report focuses on four key areas (outlined in the webinar we gave recently and available in our archive here). It also discusses some of [...]

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New Report on Decision Management Technologies – The Four Capabilities

February 28, 2012

As regular readers know, we have released the first version of our Decision Management Systems Platform Technology report. This report is available free for download from http://www.decisionmanagementsolutions.com/decision-management-technology. The core of this version of the report is the description of four aspects of building a Decision Management System that drive organizations to adopt new, Decision Management [...]

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Now available – a new report on platform technologies for Decision Management Systems

February 22, 2012

Organizations are adopting a new class of operational systems called Decision Management Systems to meet the demands of consumers, regulators and markets because traditional systems are too inflexible, fail to learn and adapt and crucially cannot apply analytics to take advantage of “Big Data.” Decision Management Systems, as I described in my book, are agile, [...]

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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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Here’s how to learn more about Decision Management Systems Platform Technologies

February 13, 2012

We are closing in on the first release of our definitive report on platform technologies for Decision Management Systems. We expect to make the first version available early next week (once we have completed a few production steps). This will provide an overall architecture for these technologies, describe the core product categories (Business Rules Management Systems, [...]

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New webinar series for those in Europe (or on the East Coast)

February 8, 2012

Working with our European partners (BCS), Decision Management Solutions has scheduled a series of three webinars at 7am Pacific/10am Eastern/16:00CET. Designed to be  live events that work for those in Europe, this is a foundation series on three core topics – Decision Management, Business Rules and Predictive Analytics. There is no restriction on attendance – [...]

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