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Lunch with Sandy Carter (IBM) and Pierre Haren (ILOG)

March 3, 2008

While attending DIALOG I had a chance to have lunch with Sandy Carter of IBM and Pierre Haren of ILOG. There was a lot of interesting discussion but two key themes caught my attention – business v IT drivers and reuse.
Sandy discussed how top-down SOA being driven by BPM and has an executive focus, although [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Breakthrough in Claims Excellence Management

February 26, 2008

Last session of the day was from Rodolfo Viola of Swiss Medical Argentina on Breakthrough in Claims Excellence Management. Claims is, of course, a prime target for rules-based automation so I was excited to hear how an organization outside of North America/Europe was handling it.
Swiss Medical is a privately owned company founded as a clinic [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Flexibility, Scalability and High Performance

February 26, 2008

My next session was on Flexibility, Scalability and High Performance with James Reid of Equifax. The application being discussed is the Equifax InterConnect Platform (part of their risk solutions, described here), a hosted SaaS solution that handles risk-based decisioning, especially credit risk. InterConnect is their decisioning platform for credit and lending and is designed to [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Dynamic BPM-Where SOA, Rules, Processes and Events Come Together

February 26, 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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Live from DIALOG – Innovation Black Holes – How do you avoid them?

February 26, 2008

Day 3 of DIALOG and I am blogging live again. Yesterday I was on a panel and the DIABLOGgers captured the gist here (thanks Daryl). First session of the day was a keynote – Innovation Black Holes – How do you avoid them? by Allen Fahden, an author and speaker (more information about him on the [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Agile Tax Management Using Rules and BPM

February 25, 2008

I missed a session from longtime ILOG customer eBay but then I attended one on Agile Tax Management Using Rules and BPM by the Tax Administration Service of Mexico and EMC. The project being discussed was very successful, they say, and based on a combination of EMC’s BPM tool (Documentum) and ILOG’s rules.
SAT, the tax [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Making Change Work to Your Advantage

February 25, 2008

After a fascinating lunch with Sandy Carter (of which more later), Steve Demuth gave the BRMS track keynote – Make Change Work to Your Advantage. Steve’s focus is on the potential competitive advantage of rules. Automate decisions, he said, are everywhere – with which I would completely agree – especially if you correctly consider micro [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Sandy Carter on SOA and Web 2.0

February 25, 2008

After a short break we had Sandy Carter on The New Language of Business – SOA and Web 2.0. Sandy has recently published a book on this topic(The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0). IBM recently surveyed CEOs to see what is top of mind and found that innovation for growth in today’s [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Scott Klososky Keynote: Do You Have Velocity Leadership?

February 25, 2008

Next up was Scott Klososky on Do You Have Velocity Leadership? Scott talks to organizations about how technology impacts different businesses and has a book coming out soon (though I could not find a link for it). He uses a quote to show his attitude to technology:
A rock pile ceases to be a [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Pierre Haren Keynote

February 25, 2008

Monday morning here at DIALOG and the keynotes are up next. The show has about 300 attendees, about half customers, representing about 18 countries. First on is Pierre Haren, Chairman and CEO of ILOG. Pierre gave a quick overview of 20 years of ILOG history and he then focused on ILOG’s mission:
Make better decisions faster [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Best Practices in Rule Governance

February 24, 2008

Well here I am at DIALOG 08, ILOG’s user group. The show passes the “Kemsley” test because there is wireless Internet access throughout the event, enabling me to blog live. First session was from Pierre Berlandier of ILOG talking about business rules governance. The session was packed – despite the option of playing golf instead [...]

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Blogging live from DIALOG 08

February 24, 2008

I am going to be at DIALOG 08, ILOG’s user group for the next few days and blogging live. You can get information on the event here and read the DIABLOG here.
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COBOL Lives! In the business rules space at least

February 20, 2008

Well I guess it had to happen – ILOG joined Fair Isaac in releasing a COBOL code generator for its flagship rules product. I have not yet seen it in action (I am sure I will at DIALOG next week) but I have talked with product management at ILOG and seen the public information. [...]

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Some thoughts on Operational BI from TDWI

February 13, 2008

This morning I watched and listen to two old friends of mine – Wayne Eckerson of TDWI and Dan Graham of Teradata as they gave a webinar on “Approaches to operational BI” (PDF of slides, Webinar Recording). Wayne and Dan did a nice tag team discussing the principles involved and giving some Teradata-specific examples.
Wayne [...]

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A chance to get the book (and see me) at ILOG’s Dialog 08

January 28, 2008

Next month (February 24th – 26th), I am going to be attending ILOG’s user conference:

I will be introducing and acting as host for a couple of sessions on best practices and giving a lunch and learn on Tuesday. I will be there the whole time, blogging from the BRMS track so look me up if [...]

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Using business rules and analytics together

January 7, 2008

Using business rules and analytics together is one of the defining characteristics of an enterprise decision management approach. Dan Selman had an interesting post over on the ILOG blog today – Integrating Business Objects and JRules using SOA. The post discusses a well-written “lab” white paper that walks through the process of this integration in [...]

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