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Rules discovery in decisions

February 23, 2010

Alan Fish has another great post over on his blog – DRA: Rules Discovery. He makes what I consider to be an essential point that is easily forgotten – you are not trying to find rules just so you know what they are, you are finding rules so you can make better decisions! Check out [...]

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First Look – FICO Xpress and Business Rules

February 17, 2010

Optimization is a mathematical process for finding the best decision for a given business problem – usually highest profit, lowest cost given a set of constraints. Involve applying an algorithm to data, decision variables, constraints and an objective function. In financial services and insurance optimization is still fairly new (unlike, say, supply chain) but the [...]

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Inductive Business-Rule Discovery in Text Mining #pawcon

February 16, 2010

Dean Abbott of Abbott Analytics presented on the induction of business rules having become, he said, reacquainted with and convinced of the value of business rules alongside data mining (something, of course, I would strongly support). The particular problem was a call center help desk in which text mining was used to find the rules [...]

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More on replacing COBOL with something useful

February 10, 2010

Lisa posted an interesting comment on an old post of mine (Why don’t you replace COBOL with something useful (not Java)) in which she make some interesting comments:
I understand your last point that using a declarative “model” such business rules would be preferable to replace legacy COBOL applications instead of using a procedural language.
Indeed. [...]

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Business processes and decisions – an emerging consensus?

January 21, 2010

Bruce Silver wrote a couple of interesting posts on this topic – Integrating Process and Rules – Part 1 and Part 2. Reading Bruce’s posts, and thinking back on the various posts I have written about business process and business decision management (Risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning, Adding decisioning to your BPM initiative or [...]

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First Look – Dulles Research Carolina

January 14, 2010

I recently met the folks at Dulles Research, a scientific computing outfit focused on analytic solutions for enterprise software. The folks who founded Dulles had previously worked at Marketswitch (focused on large scale optimization and sold to Experian in 2004) and have a long history of working with companies who are serious about using analytics [...]

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Decision Management and Event Processing

December 2, 2009

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My buddy Claye Greene, Principal Consultant at Technology Blue (a Decision Management Solutions partner) wrote a great little article on Decisions and Complex Event Processing that I highly recommend. Like Claye I think Event Processing and Decision Management are highlly complementary and Claye sums it up nicely in his article:
To maximize the success [...]

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Update – Red Hat Jboss Business Rules

December 2, 2009

I got a chance to catch up with the folks from Red Hat recently. I have reviewed the new functionality that Mark Proctor and his team have been adding to turn the old Drools rule engine into a competitive Business Rules Management System or BRMS when the latest release came out. This time we chatted [...]

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Make Better Decisions

November 17, 2009

Tom Davenport published a new article recently in the Harvard Business Review titled Make Better Decisions. In it he gives some examples of bad decisions and asks why this decision-making disorder?
First, because decisions have generally been viewed as the prerogative of individuals—usually senior executives. The process employed, the information used, the logic relied on, have [...]

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Business Rules Forum 2009 – Day 1 #brf

November 4, 2009

It’s the end of day 1 of the Business Rules Forum/Enterprise Decision Management Summit and time to write a wrap up post for the day – no live blogging today as I have too much on as track chair to sit behind my keyboard!
Today I got to attend Jim Sinur’s keynote and sessions from Roger [...]

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The Decision Model and business rules

November 2, 2009

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The new book from Barb von Halle and Larry Goldberg, The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology, is now available. This book outlines an approach for capturing and managing the business rules you need to understand in order to implement a Decision Service. It complements the use of a [...]

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Corticon launches RulesWorld – free software

October 19, 2009

Cost, time and expertise are obstacles to business rules adoption. Corticon’s recently announced RulesWorld is designed to let individuals prove the value of rules without cost or risk. RulesWorld is an online community supplying learning materials, samples and forums as well as access to the software itself. All of this at no cost. Users can [...]

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Accelerating SAP BPM with Business Rules #sapteched09

October 15, 2009

A hands on session at SAP TechEd discussing business rules in the context of SAP Netweaver BPM. The basic pitch was reiterated – business rules embedded in code are hard to maintain, hard to expose to the business users and hard to estimate change costs while rules outside the system are scattered and hard to [...]

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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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Process-centric Composite Applications with SAP Netweaver #sapteched09

October 13, 2009

Composite applications combine various existing functions into a new application, typically managed using a business process or orchestration as the framework. SAP talks about core business processes, those built into the enterprise application backbone,and composite business processes that integrate and extend these processes by reusing the services within them. Specifically a composite application contains:

Workcenter
Where users [...]

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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

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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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Decisioning platforms and managing business rules

October 8, 2009

While at the recent Gartner BPM conference (twitter feed at #gartnerbpm) I got some interesting questions from @gagan_s. He saw my posts on the bare essentials of making rules work and @skemsley’s post on my advanced decisioning for process excellence session (recording here).
The first question he asked was a follow-up to Jim Sinur (@jimsinur) saying [...]

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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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