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Live Event: Business Friendly Data Mining at PAW Chicago

May 23, 2012

[ June 26, 2012; 7:40 am to 8:00 am. ] I am speaking on Business Friendly Data Mining on Day 2 (June 26) of Predictive Analytics World Chicago at 10:40am CT.
Organizations that are more sophisticated with analytics are more likely to be top business performers. But too often there are gaps in understanding between business, IT and analytics teams. Gaps in building business understanding lead [...]

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Webinar on decision-centric business design with business rules

May 14, 2012

I am giving a webinar with Gagan Saxena (@Gagan_S), CIO of Apple Vacations on A New Approach to Business Design at Apple Vacations on May 22, 2012 at 10:00 am PT, 1:00 pm ET.
Gagan and I will present how how Apple Vacations applied Decision Management to redesign the consumer experience and create a “smart system” that would bring [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business (Cary)

May 10, 2012

[ May 17, 2012; 5:30 am to 6:30 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.”  This one is in Cary, NC on May 17 and the main session starts at 8:30am ET. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler and More Agile [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business (Toronto)

May 9, 2012

[ May 15, 2012; 12:30 am; ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.”  This time it is in Toronto on May 15 and the main session starts at 8:30am ET. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler and More Agile [...]

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IBM IMPACT Forbes Mini Main Tent

April 30, 2012

The Forbes Mini Main Tent was kicked off by Mike Perlis, CEO of Forbes. Mike focused on how to build a business as strong as the Forbes brand – something with four legs:

Keep print business on track
Build the digital business for growth
Develop brand extensions like conferences and international
Become a great technology company

This last one is [...]

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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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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business (Baltimore)

March 19, 2012

[ April 18, 2012; 5:30 am to 9:30 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.”  The seventh is in Baltimore, MD on April 18 and the main session starts at 8:30am ET. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler and More Agile [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business (Orlando)

March 19, 2012

[ April 17, 2012; 5:30 am to 9:30 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.”  The sixth is in Orlando, FL on April 17 and the main session starts at 8:30am ET. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler and More Agile [...]

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Managing Decision Logic in Decision Management Technologies

March 8, 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). One of these areas is [...]

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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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First Look – Predixion Insight 2.0

March 1, 2012

I got an update from Predixion Software recently. Predixion, as I have blogged before, was founded in 2009 and is focused on disrupting the predictive analytics market by making it easier to build and deploy predictive analytics. Their core belief is that success with predictive analytics is going to require the broadening of the range [...]

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Decisions, rulesets and business rules revisited

February 28, 2012

Some time back I wrote Here’s how decisions and rules relate (and how to manage them) and it seemed to me that this could do with being repeated with small updates.
One of the questions I get often is around how decisions and business rules relate. Business rules are, after all, one of the core technologies for [...]

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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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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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Workshop: Decisions and Decision Management (Berlin, Germany)

February 8, 2012

[ June 4, 2012 to June 5, 2012. ] I am giving a live 2-day workshop in Berlin, Germany this summer on Decisions and Decision Management.

Organizations must understand how to identify and classify decisions and how to assess the potential for business rules and analytics to support and improve those decisions. They need to understand the available technologies and approaches and the long and [...]

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Rules Developer/Junior Developer position in Louisville, KY

February 7, 2012

Brooksource in Louisville, KY is searching for a Rules Management Developer for a Fortune 100 client in the healthcare industry. This position is within the Clinical Guidance group and they are seeking someone that has a development background and has experience working with the business side of the house.  This is a unique position that has [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business (Denver)

February 2, 2012

[ March 22, 2012; 8:00 am to 9:00 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.” I will be speaking on BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler, and More Agile Business. The third  is in Denver, CO on March 22nd and the main session starts at 8:30am MT. I will be [...]

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Keynote: The Intelligent Enterprise:From BI to Predictive Analytics with Decision Management

January 19, 2012

[ February 9, 2012; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] I am giving the closing keynote on day 1 of Predictive Analytics and Business Insights 2012 in San Francisco on February 9th at 3:30pm. I will be speaking on “The Intelligent Enterprise: Utilize decision management to move from Business Intelligence to Predictive Analytics” and attending the networking reception afterwards. Other speakers at the event include Saum Mathur – Vice President, [...]

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Webinar: Models Collecting Dust? How to Transform Your Results from Interesting to Impactful

January 11, 2012

[ March 14, 2012; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] I am giving a webinar on Thursday March 14, 2012 10 am Pacific with Revolution Analytics on “Models Collecting Dust? How to Transform Your Results from Interesting to Impactful”
Data scientists sometimes lament, “Why can’t I get anyone to use my predictions?” Great models that make accurate predictions are sometimes disconnected from organizational decision-making. This hurts [...]

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Analytics: The widening divide. An IBM/MIT Sloan study

November 8, 2011

I listened in to IBM’s call about their recent analytics study conducted with MIT Sloan – The Widening Divide (available from www.ibm.com/thewideningdivide). This is the second year for the analytics study and surveyed 4,500 people from 30 industries and 120 countries – a very broad view. Three key results:

The competitive advantage created by analytics is [...]

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