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First Look – IBM/ILOG BRMS 7.0

June 17, 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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Business rules for more effective development

June 17, 2009

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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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Sneak Peek – ILOG Rules 7.0

June 16, 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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Slides from the webinar on mainframe agility

June 2, 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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First Look – FICO Blaze Advisor 6.7 and Decision Simulator

June 1, 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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Nice report on the value of end-user developers

May 29, 2009

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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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Using business rules to add decision transparency

May 27, 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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Another list of reasons to try business rules

May 25, 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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Free webinar on Mainframes, SOA and Decision Management

May 21, 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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Business Rules and Increasing Your Agility

May 21, 2009

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Kirk Knoernschild had a great post on Application Platform Strategies Blog: Increasing Your Agility. I often blog about the power of business rules to improve agility (check out Decision Services and designing for change,Decision Management and software development – Agile and Achieving Agility – some notes after Gartner for instance) and I was [...]

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Open Source Enterprise Business Rules Arrive

May 19, 2009

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Today is the official release day for the new release of JBoss Enterprise BRMS – Drools 5.0 as was. Key features in this release are the repository/repository management tools and the new features that let business users and business analysts participate directly in editing the rules. Craig Muzilla, the VP Middleware Business Unit [...]

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Here’s how you know you need business rules

May 14, 2009

Jim Sinur asked (and answered) a similar question on this blog recently – Do I Really Need a Business Rule Capability? Now I generally talk about Decision Services as the driver for business rules – services that answer business questions for other services – so how can you tell that a service is ideal for [...]

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A new book on open source business rules

May 13, 2009

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With Drools 5, JBoss and the open source community have delivered a true business rules management system for the first time. Using Drools, organizations can take control of the logic that drives their operational decisions using an open source platform. Some time ago I wrote a little forward for Paul Browne and now [...]

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Are there unwritten rules in your processes?

May 7, 2009

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I got a newsletter over the weekend with a very pertinent comment:
In our last newsletter, the Facilities Team announced that we were in negotiations for a facility. Unfortunately, undocumented rules in the city’s building code were discovered which put a kibosh on that location
This is interesting because I know for a fact that [...]

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Complementing IBM BPM with ILOG

May 5, 2009

A technical introduction to how ILOG’s product complement WebSphere Business Process Management products.  ILOG, of course, has a full-fledged Business Rules Management Systems or BRMS as well as an optimization engine (CPLEX), visualization tools and applications for supply chain management. This session focused on how the ILOG BRMS integrates with and complements the WebSphere BPM [...]

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First Look – New Wisdom RuleGuide

April 23, 2009

New Wisdom was founded in 2006 (as a spinoff of Lambert Consultants) to develop software for managing business source rules. The product, RuleGuideTM, is designed to capture metadata about the rules and to support discovery and analysis of rules in projects adopting a business rules management system (BRMS). They see this as about 65% of [...]

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First Look – DeltaR onRules

April 22, 2009

Delta-R’s product onRules is Java-based, service oriented application. Based on open source like the Spring, Hibernate, Java Server Faces r UI, Groovy for scripting etc. It is fully web based – thin client – and the resulting services are deployed as web services. It is available in English and Spanish.
The software starts with a tree/pane [...]

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Decision Services and designing for change

April 21, 2009

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Todd Biske wrote an interesting piece titled Thoughts on designing for change that made me think about one of the real basics of decision management and reminded me of some comments Phil Wainewright made years ago about what happens to deployed services:
Services have to operate in the real world, where nothing can be [...]

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Business Analytics and IBM

April 15, 2009

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I participated in a panel at IBM’s launch of its new Business Analytics and Optimization service line this week. I wrote a quick post to go with the launch and having attended and heard the IBM folks talk about it and had a chance to talk with some of them I thought a [...]

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IBM announces new Business Analytics and Optimization services

April 14, 2009

I am attending IBM’s launch event for its new Business Analytics and Optimization service line and scheduled a quick post to point readers to the announcement – there is a press kit at www.ibm.com/press/analytics.
I am excited about this. Firstly it’s a big deal for IBM Global Business Services to add a service line so it [...]

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