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Time to register for Gartner BPM and my workshop

February 11, 2010

The Gartner Business Process Management Summit, March 22-24, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, promises to be great with some good keynotes, lots of Gartner analysts and plenty of sponsors. The early bird rate for the event ends this Monday – register by 5 p.m. EST February 15 and save $300. I [...]

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Other characteristics of decision-centric organizations

January 21, 2010

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Decision-centric organizations also focus on automating, not just supporting, decisions. They use this focus to develop simpler, standard processes and to become more event-driven. With decisions at the forefront, organizations need to change their thinking about automation. Instead of regarding information systems as simple stores of information that people use, they need to [...]

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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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Some thoughts on Application Development 2.0

August 12, 2009

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As the summer doldrums roll on I thought I would try and stir things up a little with a “2.0″ post – specifically some thoughts on a software stack for “Application Development 2.0″. Such a stack would:

Model processes, events and decisions as first class objects
Support declarative (rules-based) approaches to developing business logic
Use visual [...]

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Decision Management Events for July 31

July 31, 2009

This week’s event calendar is below. The intent of this weekly post is to focus on web events coming in the next few weeks and conferences in the coming months. If you know about web or physical events around business rules, analytics, optimization or decision management, please let me know – james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com.
Web Events:

SPSS Webinar -Micro-targeting [...]

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First Look – ID Analytics and MyIDScore

June 22, 2009

I got a briefing from ID Analytics recently – mostly to catch up on their new service for consumers My ID Score (https://myidscore.com).
ID Analytics has historically been focused on B2B services – helping companies identify applications that are potentially fraudulent. They have an ID Network that collects information from 6 of the top 10 credit [...]

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Decision Management Event Calendar for June 12 2009

June 12, 2009

This week’s event calendar is below. The intent of this weekly post is to focus on web events coming in the next few weeks though I will start to add some longer term conference links. Anyone who knows about web or physical events around business rules, analytics, optimization or decision management, please let me know [...]

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Decision Management Event Calendar

June 5, 2009

I have decided to start running a post at the end of the week highlighting relevant web events for the following week. If you work at a vendor and want to tell me about yours, please send me an email at james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com. Likewise if you hear of something you think other readers of the blog [...]

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How Business Events and Business Rules Work Together

May 5, 2009

Another session on the integration of ILOG’s products with WebSphere, this time focused on the integration of WebSphere Business Events and rules.  Business Events are defined here as any electronic signal indicating a change of state. Business Event Processing is the sensing of patterns in these events that show an actionable situation has arisen and [...]

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IMPACT Press Announcements

May 4, 2009

Sandy Carter, Tom Rosamilia and Steve Mills led a press conference on their key announcements. IBM feels strongly that it has really got the experience you need for BPM and SOA. For their Dynamic Business Process and Models they have 5,000+ engagements and are #1 in BPM market share according to Gartner. They have research [...]

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Here’s how decisions and rules relate (and how to manage them)

March 5, 2009

One of the questions I get often is around how decisions and business rules relate. People want to know so they can design their system and so they can manage change. I recently got a request for a link to a post describing the difference and I realize that, though I have lots of posts [...]

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Forrester on event processing and business rules

February 23, 2009

Last month Mike Gualtieri and Charles Brett published “Must You Choose Between Business Rules And Complex Event Processing Platforms?” In this they ask and answer a question that has come up a fair bit recently:
How can you choose between investing in a business rules platform and a complex event processing (CEP) platform? The answer is [...]

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DIALOG Improving Customer Experience in Health Insurance

February 5, 2009

Gerhard Hausmann presented on Barmenia and their use of business rules to improve customer experience. Barmenia is a private health / life insurance company in Germany with more than 2M contracts and 1.5Bn Euros in premiums. Been in business since 1904 and still have contracts that date back to the last century. In Germany there [...]

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DIALOG Keynotes – ILOG and IBM

February 4, 2009

Pierre Haren started up the keynotes with some personal comments about the excitement of being part of IBM, seeing more customers at DIALOG and hearing stories from customers about what they are doing with ILOG products. He is clearly enthused by the opportunity to reach more companies by being part of IBM than they ever [...]

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Adding more intelligence to business process

February 2, 2009

Jim Sinur posted BPM Needs to Add More Intelligence to Decisions Surrounding Processes and said:
Going forward, I see a need for more sophisticated decisions that will require a deeper integration of rules, analytics, and complex events.
If you read my blogs, you know I agree with this statement in broad terms. I think, however, that the [...]

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IBM and ILOG – What Else?

January 29, 2009

Last post in my series as I am off to DIALOG next week and will get a chance to meet some of the IBM folks and chat about their plans. Here, then, are some quickie ideas for ways IBM could use rules besides the ones I mentioned already:

Modernizing Legacy
IBM customers have LOTS of legacy systems. [...]

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IBM and ILOG – Java, COBOL AND .Net

January 23, 2009

Continuing my series on the opportunity for IBM now it has completed its acquisition of ILOG, I wanted to discuss multi-platform support in the ILOG BRMS. This is an issue because there is an apparent tension between IBM’s behavior over the last few years and ILOG’s:

IBM is seen as a very Java-centric company
IBM’s recent focus [...]

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Webinar on the ROI of business rules in decision management

January 8, 2009

On January 28, 2009 I am going to be participating in a webinar with InRule on “Quantifying Improved Decision Management: The Value of Rules“. The webinar is free runs for an hour starting at 8am Pacific (11am Eastern). The webinar will discuss decision management and business rules and the kind of ROI people see. It [...]

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Predictive Analytics World

December 18, 2008

I am going to be speaking at a show in San Francisco in the spring called Predictive Analytics World. I am going to speak on From Predictive Analytics to Competing on Decisions on the first day. I will also be…

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