EDM Summit

Decision Management Summit – early bird extended

September 22, 2009

I am the chair of the Summit and I am going to give …

A Keynote on Smarter Systems for Uncertain Times

A Tutorial on Maximizing the ROI of a Business Rules Investment with Decision Management

A Special Talk on Performance Management and Agility

The Early Bird rate for the Summit has been extended one extra week
PLUS there is [...]

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Speaking at Business Rules Forum

August 2, 2009

[ November 1, 2009 to November 5, 2009. ] The Business Rules Forum/Enterprise Decision Management Summit in Las Vegas offers the most complete set of talks on business rules as well as some great sessions on rules in the context of BPM, adding analytics and focusing on decisions. I am giving a keynote on smarter systems for uncertain times, chairing the decision management track [...]

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Come to the Enterprise Decision Management Summit in 2009

January 28, 2009

Enterprise Decision Management Summit 2009
at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nov. 1-5, 2009

Business Rules
Decision Management
Business Alignment Symposium – New!
“How-to” Project Labs – New!
Business Process Management Track – New!
CEP Workshop – New!

Make sure you’re on the Business Rules Forum mailing list – sign-up [...]

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Save the Date and exciting news about the EDM Summit

December 18, 2008

The EDM Summit is going to Las Vegas, Nov 1-5, 2009
Mark Your Calendars!
The 2009 event will be bigger and better than ever. In addition to the usual focus on business rules and intelligent decisioning (chaired by yours-truly), there are going to be a Business Alignment Symposium and “How-To” Project Labs to deliver [...]

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EDM Summit – some closing thoughts

November 3, 2008

I thought I would wrap up with some closing thoughts for the week:

Lots of discussion of the importance of data – understanding it, integrating it, cleaning it and making the same data available to those reporting on it, doing analytics with it and running operational systems.
Interesting times in the rules market with recent acquisitions by [...]

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EDM Summit – Emerging Trends Panel

November 2, 2008

Not really live this post as I am working from notes I took – after all I was on the panel and it’s hard to participate and blog at the same time. Joining me on the panel were Don Baisley of Microsoft, Ron Ross and Jim Sinur (of Gartner) – Neil had to leave. We [...]

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Building Blocks of Decision Management

October 30, 2008

Michele Edelman of Discover presented on Building Blocks of Decision Management: “Tools to Rule”. Michele spends a lot of time educating people inside Discover and her team use sources like McKinsey to show executives why EDM matters. For instance, a report on top 10 macro-economic trends:

Centers of economic activity will shift profoundly not just globally [...]

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EDM Summit – Day 3 Begins

October 30, 2008

Day 3 starts early – 8am for the first session. The Expo closed yesterday and today will be just content. Yesterday was an interesting day with lots of discussion among the attendees of the Oracle acquisition of Haley. Here are the blog posts I found for yesterday

2008 Business Rules Forum – Day 1
2008 Business [...]

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Live from the EDM Summit – From Here to Agility

October 28, 2008

I am at the EDM Summit this week and will be blogging live from some of the sessions and posting random thoughts and comments in addition. Despite the difficult market conditions, attendance looks good with a nice full room for the keynote and attendees from 17 countries. This year’s event also has a dozen new [...]

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Going to the EDM Summit/Business Rules Forum

October 24, 2008

Next week Neil and I will be at the EDM Summit/Business Rules Forum the whole week so say hi if you are there and look for posts from the show.

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Last chance for the EDM Summit

October 16, 2008

There are only 12 Days Left to register for the first Enterprise Decision Management Summit so get off your butt and register!

Neil and I Co-Chairs and readers of the blog can get a discount. We are presenting twice – A Pre-Conference Tutorial Succeeding as a Decision-Centric Organization and a Keynote Competing [...]

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Great event, nice little discount

September 3, 2008

There is a great conference coming up October 26-30 – not only are Neil and I Co-Chairs but readers of the blog can get a discount. We are presenting twice – A Pre-Conference Tutorial Succeeding as a Decision-Centric Organization and a Keynote Competing on Decisions. Because of this you can get [...]

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Here are some opportunities to hear Neil and James speak

July 29, 2008

We have a number of speaking engagements in the next few months and I thought I would highlight them on the blog today. Arranged in date order…

August 6th, 10am Pacific Time, “How to leverage scorecards for accurate risk management”
Webinar, multiple speakers including James, sponsored by ILOG
August 19th, 8:30am Pacific Time, Reinventing BI with Real-Time Analytics: [...]

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4 more days to get a FREE iTouch

June 26, 2008

Remember the 1st Enterprise Decision Management Summit and the 11th International Business Rules Forum ? October 26-30, 2008 at the Buena Vista Palace, Orlando FL. Don’t forget that as a reader of this blog we are able to offer you a special, one-time offer as an honorary member of the Friends and Family of the [...]

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Come to the first ever EDM Summit and a special offer

June 4, 2008

1st Enterprise Decision Management Summit and the 11th International Business Rules Forum
October 26-30, 2008 at the Buena Vista Palace, Orlando FL.
I am pleased to announce that we have published the agenda for the Enterprise Decision Management Summit and Business Rules Forum. This is the first time we have run the EDM Summit and we have [...]

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Two Great Decision Management Conferences this year

April 17, 2008

I am involved in two great decision management conferences this year and I wanted to quickly post about them to encourage you to attend – apologies to readers of my other blogs who may see this information more than once.
First up is InterACT, Fair Isaac’s show on decision management and analytics, April 27-30. I will [...]

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Call for presentations – the new EDM Summit

March 11, 2008

How are you integrating business rules and analytics?
How are you adding intelligence to your business processes?
How are you putting analytics to work in your operational systems?
How, in other words, are you using Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) to innovate your business? Your colleagues and peers want to know.

We invite you to present [...]

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