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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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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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Webinar: Active Decisions for the “Aware” Organization

August 23, 2011

[ September 29, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] I am giving a webinar on Active Decisions for the “Aware” Organization with RedHat on September 29  at 10am Pacific.

Organizations need systems that allow them to respond to fast changing conditions. These systems must be easy to change as requirements change and be able to respond to what is happening in real-time. Rules-based decision management systems [...]

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More on the relationship between Decision Management and BPM

May 10, 2011

There’s a great article over on IBM’s Good Decisions blog called “What’s Decision Management got to do with Business Process Management?” The article lays out a nice scenario for Decision Management and differentiates between business event processing, business rules management, analytics and business process management. It is definitely worth a read. There are a couple [...]

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Gartner BPM 11 Closing Keynote

April 29, 2011

Daryl Plummer gave the closing keynote – “If I had a time machine”. He began by differentiating between science fiction and fantasy – science fiction being a vision of the future that is based on some extrapolation of currently understood science and facts. Fantasy is completely based on the whims of the visionary. What he [...]

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Role of Business Intelligence in process improvement

April 29, 2011

Bill Gassman spoke on the role of Business Intelligence – BI – in process improvement. Bill means “big BI” – everything to do with intelligence about your business, the discipline of BI and analytics, not just a “BI” product. The road to intelligent operations he says has “haves” and “have nots” – some have BI [...]

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Rapid Fire Business Rules at Gartner BPM

April 28, 2011

Roy Schulte of Gartner gave a rapid fire session on business rules. Business rules he says can be used in multiple ways in a Business Process Management context. It can be used to make applications smarter and more flexible by externalizing rules. You can also use them to control process flow. And you can use [...]

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CEP and Decision Management

March 23, 2011

Paul Vincent of Tibco presented to the OMG Decision Modeling Notation day on the impact of event processing and real-time event handling on decision management. In particular the increasing need for true real-time, almost snap decisions. Tibco sees demand for these kinds of decisions across banking and trading, supply chains, telecommunications and more. Paul used [...]

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SAS product portfolio and roadmaps

March 7, 2011

Warning, long post follows – SAS has a lot of products and even this summary was a lot. A big session on the product portfolio – 2010 and 2011 highlights in some specific focus areas. New releases in 2010 included:

Customer Link Analytics – released in Q1 this product focused on using links between customers to [...]

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First Look – Ingres VectorWise

March 1, 2011

I got an update from the folks at Ingres the other data to talk about Ingres VectorWise. Like many of the companies I have spoken to recently, Ingres is focused on how to provide an analytic infrastructure that handles the increasing volume and complexity of data so that analysis can be done on up to [...]

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Future trends in business rules (with a little help from my friends)

January 20, 2011

I was presenting this week to a company that asked what trends I saw in business rules. I had my ow thoughts but I also reached out to some other experience business rules implementers. Here’s what we came up with:

A broader context for business rules

Business rules are increasingly adopted as part of a broader effort [...]

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Some thoughts on advanced analytics

December 15, 2010

As part of the build up to today’s tweet jam on advanced analytics, Jim Kobelius discussed some of the questions they are planning to use in a blog post – Advance your analytics strategy. There’s a lot of good stuff in the article but I do have to take issue with a few things.
First, the [...]

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What, exactly, do you mean by business rules

October 8, 2010

Syndicated from ebizQ
Scott Cleveland had an interesting post this week on the single greatest benefit of BPM that included the information that 17% thought it was “Change business rules and processes without impacting underlying applications”. This focus on agility is not, perhaps, surprising but it prompted an interesting comment from John [...]

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Oracle RTD Roadmap #oow10

September 20, 2010

The Oracle Real Time Decisions (RTD) roadmap began with a quick review of Oracle RTD (see my earlier post on the role of RTD in e-commerce) – an analytical decision service that sits between the operational and analytic applications of an organization so that operational business processes can be analytically enhanced. Crucially it combines prescriptive [...]

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Webinar with Progress on decisions and responsiveness

July 21, 2010

I am giving a webinar on “Building Responsive Enterprises – One Decision at a Time” with Progress Software this week. I will discuss how decision management improves business performance by identifying the key decisions that drive value in your business. I will discuss:

The responsive enterprise
The need for decisions
Business rules and business [...]

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Some thoughts on SAP/Sybase, CEP and decisioning

May 13, 2010

There have been a number of twitter conversations around the recent SAP/Sybase news that make me want to write more than 140 characters in response. These fall into three main categories:

Does the announcement have an impact on those considering decision management strategies
What, exactly, do mobile workers need and does Sybase deliver this for [...]

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Two interesting IDC predictions

May 11, 2010

The nice folks over at IDC let me take a look at IDC – Worldwide Application Development and Deployment: 2010 Predictions. I have a somewhat narrow focus (Decision Management) so only two are really in my zone. First, #10:
10. Decisioning Products Will Be Unified to Deliver a Decision Management Platform
This is obviously right [...]

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Teradata – Q&A with Stephen Brobst

April 28, 2010

Stephen Brobst, Teradata’s CTO, took open Q&A.

What’s the business and architectural impact of the temporal (and spatial) extensions in 13.10?
Most Teradata customers are doing temporal things but implementing manually today using things like effective date columns. This is hard work and the new feature makes it easier to manage, more accessible to customers (some of [...]

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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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CEP = event correlation + decision management

September 2, 2009

There has been a lot of twittering between some of my colleagues (@CMatignon, @mgualtieri, @johnrrymer, @NeilRaden) around rules, decisioning and CEP. As such I thought I would write a quick blog post on the topic as it seems to me that the reason for confusion and for some of the back and forth I see [...]

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