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Yesterday Innovations Software Technology announced the latest release of Visual Rules – 4.5. This is the third in a series of related release and the enterprise components of Visual Rules (Team Server, Execution Server) have been the focus of the last few releases (4.3, 4.4 and now 4.5). I talked about 4.3/4.4 previously and got [...]

A quick note to point out some newly available resources on decision management.
First, Claye Green of Technology Blue (a Decision Management Solutions partner) wrote a nice little piece on barriers to decision management success.
I have been busy too, writing some shorter briefs on Decision Management topics. These are available without registration from the Decision Management [...]

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Timo Elliot had an interesting post Gartner on Collaborative Decision Making in which he discussed a report from Gartner called The Rise of Collaborative Decision Making (and thanks to Nic Smith of Microsoft for the link). This kind of ad-hoc, collaborative decision making is critical in companies and technology to support it is [...]

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” – [...]

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 [...]

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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Robert Grossman had a nice post – Five Common Mistakes in Analytic Projects that made me think about the role of decision management in putting predictive analytics to work. Of Robert’s 5 mistakes, 3 are directly addressed by decision management:

There is not a good plan for deploying the model
Because decision management is focused [...]

Ginger Conlon had a nice post this week – Don’t Blast. Target. – Think customers: The 1to1 Blog.
many marketers are still drawn to the ease of blasting to a broad audience, instead of targeting for maximum impact among those most likely to respond
If you are trying to make this transition from blasting to targeting – [...]

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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 [...]

Cyrus Montakab posted on Business Rules in Legacy Modernization recently in response to a post of mine and I wanted to respond to it. I wanted to respond in particular to his comment that:
even for the modules that can be fitted into a business rule, is it viable to re-architect re-factor the existing COBOL code [...]