1st
July
2009
Yesterday Innovations Software Technology announced the latest release of Visual Rules – 4.5. This is the third in a series of related release and the enterprise components of Visual Rules (Team Server, Execution Server) have been the focus of the last few releases (4.3, 4.4 and now 4.5). I talked about 4.3/4.4 previously and got [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Product News |
17th
June
2009
As previewed yesterday, ILOG (now an IBM company) is releasing the 7.0 products of their business rule management system (BRMS) family. These mark a big step forward for the ILOG product range. ILOG BRMS 7.0 has the standard BRMS components – an Eclipse-based development environment (Rule Studio), a web-based collaboration environment for non-technical users (Rule [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Product News |
17th
June
2009
Syndicated from ebizQ
Noam Tamarkin had a post recently on Efficient or Effective in software development in which he asked an important question – would you rather be more efficient or more effective when it came to developing software. Most would, like Noam, answer that they preferred to be effective. Yet I see many programming teams [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management |
16th
June
2009
ILOG, now an IBM company, is releasing the 7.0 version of their business rule management system (BRMS) family tomorrow (June 17th). Based on the demonstrations I saw, these mark a big step forward for the ILOG product range. I am going to post a full review tomorrow but I thought I would give everyone a [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management |
2nd
June
2009
For those of you who could not attend the webinar I gave with Claye Greene of technologyblue, here are the slides:
SOA Mainframe Decision Management
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management |
1st
June
2009
Back in March FICO released 6.7 of their BRMS Blaze Advisor. I got a chance to catch up with the release just recently. The focus of this release was the business user experience – an improved out of the box experience for business users. The business user experience has become increasingly critical as business users [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management, Product News |
29th
May
2009
Syndicated from ebizQ
Mike Gualtieri of Forrester Research recently wrote a nice piece called Deputize End-User Developers To Deliver Business Agility And Reduce Costs. The report is available from Forrester (for subscribers and for those who purchase it) but the summary is on their website:
The ranks of businesspeople who are capable of developing applications are swelling [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management |
27th
May
2009
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Jim Sinur had a short post on The Power of Visibility with BPM Enabled Processes that made me think about another kind of visibility – visibility of decisions. One of the most powerful benefits of adopting business rules to manage decisions is that the approach generates increased visibility into the decision making process [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management |
25th
May
2009
Dave Birchall has a nice list of 10 Reasons to Evaluate InRule Business Rules Engine though personally I don’t think these are limited to InRule but relate to almost all business rules management systems. That said, InRule 3.2 is a nice product for companies focused on .NET. If you like the post, check out my [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules |
21st
May
2009
I am presenting, with Claye Greene of technologyblue, on the path to business agility and lower costs: Mainframes, SOA and Decision Management. The webinar is on June 2nd at 7:30am Pacific time (scheduled specifically for folks in Pittsburgh and vicinity) and will cover how applying Decision Management, SOA and Business Rules Management Systems can renovate [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, News |