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Business Event Management and Decisions

December 4, 2008

There has been another flurry of posts around event processing and event management recently. IBM recently announced Business Event Management about which the architect guy had this feedback, Carole-Ann posted An attempt at demystifying CEP, BPM and BRMS and Eric Roch replied with EDA, CEP, BPM, BRMS and SOA. This is also a topic on [...]

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From Data Warehousing to Strategic Data Assets

December 2, 2008

Usama Fayyad, previously Chief Data Officer of Yahoo, presented a keynote on From Data Warehousing to Strategic Data Assets – Case Studies on the Web: Social Networking, Direct-Response Marketing and Understanding Customer Behavior.
The number of users on the web continues to grow rapidly, approaching 1Bn. The data created as these users move around the web [...]

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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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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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How many different kinds of decision management are there?

October 21, 2008

Well at least one more as of today – Jim Sinur, over on his Gartner blog – has finally started to use the phrase he has been threatening to use for a while “Intelligent Decision Management”. While Jim has not published a formal definition – I expect he will soon now he is back at [...]

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Events, Decisions and “Real-Time Intelligence”

October 20, 2008

I am one of the featured speakers in the forthcoming Tibco series on Using Events to Add Real-Time Intelligence. It’s an online event with webinars, “booths”, and real Tibco people available to answer questions. You can register for it here.

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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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Decision Services, Decision Agents and Event Processing

October 13, 2008

I have been doing some presenting on decision services recently – to SAI in Belgium and at the SOA Symposium – and my old friend Paul Vincent posted about a discussion he and I have been having about the relevance of decision services in an event-driven architecture or Complex Event Processing scenario. Paul makes the [...]

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First Look – SeeWhy

October 7, 2008

On my recent trip to Europe I got my first chance for a real look at SeeWhy’s product and their announcement today of SeeWhy Tracks Individual Customers’ Digital Mood seemed like a good reason to blog a little about this interesting product. The latest version helps manage customer experience by analyzing page errors, page load [...]

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Live from the SOA Symposium – Opening Keynotes

October 7, 2008

The SOA Symposium started today in the AJAX Stadium in Amsterdam. The opening keynotes were actually in the Stadium itself – we all sat at the halfway line. Thomas Erl and Sandy Carter gave quick intros and I will add some comments later but I could not type so this is just a placeholder have [...]

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Speaking in Brussels Evening of October 10th

September 12, 2008

Thanks to my friend Jan I will be giving a seminar at SAI – the Belgian ‘Study Center for Information Processing’ – in the evening of October 10th. You can find details here – I am speaking on ‘Decision Services’: A pattern for business rules in Service Oriented Systems and Architectures.

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SOA Symposium in Amsterdam – Free Pass

September 11, 2008

As I said before I am speaking at the SOA Symposium in Amsterdam in October – “Decision Services: A Pattern for Smarter Service-Oriented Systems“. I think the conference will be great and I hope to meet some readers there but, if you are local, I have an even better offer. I can bring a couple [...]

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Decisions matter to Complex Event Processing

September 5, 2008

An old colleague asked me to explain a little about the difference between Complex Event Processing or CEP and decision management. In particular he referenced a recent series of articles by James Kobelius in which the last one (titled Really Happy in Real Time) discussed how “Complex event processing empowers the contact center to manage [...]

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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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Neil Speaking at Brainstorm San Francisco

August 26, 2008

Neil has a new speaking gig – he is going to be speaking at Brainstorm San Francisco on “Applying Decision Management to Make Process Simpler, Smarter and More Agile”, October 1st in the morning. You can find the agenda here and register here.

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More on the IBM/ILOG Relationship

August 11, 2008

I got a briefing last week from IBM as part of my researching of the IBM/ILOG acquisition (I blogged about this here). Back when I was at IMPACT it became clear that IBM was getting focused on events, rules and policies – they talked about Points of Agility, points in a business where variability is [...]

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First Look – Tibco ActiveMatrix Service Performance Manager

August 8, 2008

I got a briefing this week from my friends at Tibco about their Service Performance Manager product released a couple of months ago. The product is a big step along the road to what some call “autonomic computing” in that it provides dynamic and automated monitoring and correction of service levels in a service-oriented world.
The [...]

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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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Learn about the mortgage industry, rules and scorecards

July 24, 2008

ILOG is running a webinar titled “How to Leverage Scorecards for Accurate Risk Management” on Wednesday, August 6 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific / 1:00 p.m. Eastern. Anthony Garritano, editor of Mortgage Technology magazine, me (James) and Janet Wall from ILOG will share presentation duties and give you a quick look at the mortgage industry, how [...]

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