24th
June
2009
I got a chance to get an overview of the latest release of Oracle Real-Time Decisions, 3.0. This is the platform for real-time decisions on which various applications (for call center, web etc) are built and sold as part of the Oracle Applications suite.
The vision of this product is to optimize “return on attention” – [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Decision Management, Product News |
30th
July
2008
Ann All had a post on Agile development brings IT, business together that had the great phrase “application development 2.0″. In the article she mentioned some very worthy objectives for this 2.0 version of application development. Here they are, paraphrased slightly.
Encourage close collaboration between developers and end users
Involve users in quality assurance processes
Don’t use traditional [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules |
27th
June
2008
OutSystems came to my attention at the Forrester IT Forum as they were suggested as a tool with good support for what Forrester calls Dynamic Business Applications. Founded in 2001 they have 100+ customers mostly in Portugal and the Netherlands but increasingly also in the US. Of these they identify 17 existing customers that have [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Product News |
8th
May
2008
Mike Gualtieri of Forrester had a blog post a few months back that I missed then but that he pointed out to me this week – What Is Your Future? In it he outlines two scenarios at either end of a continuum. One is that application development changes in incremental ways such that “The application [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management |
7th
April
2008
It turns out they are going to move the schedule back to allow for the overrun in the keynotes so I have some time to catch up.
So, Steve Mills. Steve re-iterated the power of business and IT alignment, again quoting the LSE / McKinsey study that shows such alignment doubles productivity (I am looking for [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Strategy |
27th
March
2008
I am often asked the question in the title – what is a smart (enough) system? Here’s the list we use when we talk about it:
Operational
While one can make systems of all kinds “smarter” we are talking about making operational, transactional, high-volume, typically customer facing applications smart enough to be useful.
Real-Time
As a result we talk [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management |
26th
February
2008
I missed the customer panel with Travelocity, Equifax, Deloitte Consulting and Bank of America but hopefully the DIABLOGgers got that one too (they did, check here). Next up is Daryl Plummer of Gartner talking about Dynamic BPM—Where SOA, Rules, Processes and Events Come Together. Daryl started with a great plug for my book and then got [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management |