6th
May
2009
ILOG and XM presented on optimization and business processes. Optimization in this context is about mathematical optimization aimed at decision support or Operations Research. Creating plans and schedules to optimize use of resources. Optimization helps business create best possible schedules or plans, explore their alternatives and understand trade-offs between conflicting goals. For instance, how much [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Optimization |
6th
May
2009
I presented today on using business rules and decision management to make business processes smarter, simpler and more agile. Here are the slides:
Using business rules to make processes simpler, smarter and more agile
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management |
5th
May
2009
IBM has made a number of announcements at IMPACT and I got a chance to hear more about them at a blogference – a press conference for bloggers I guess. Interesing mix of bloggers with other jobs (like me) and “real” press people. First Sandy spent some time on a bunch of social media announcements [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BPM |
4th
May
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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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Optimization |
4th
May
2009
Well here we are at another IMPACT. The event has 5,000+ attendees. Keynotes begin with some humor from Billy Crystal. Steve Mills got the serious section kicked of by reminding us that technology is so pervasive it is easy to forget what we rely on it for. Billions of transistors, billions of people connected to [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization |
1st
April
2009
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Checking out some articles on the Business Rules Community I saw a great illustration of making processes simpler and more agile with decision management. In How Business Rules Define Business Processes (free registration required), Jan Vanthienen and Stijn Goedertier give some nice examples of how standard business process notation, with its abject failure [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management |
18th
March
2009
While the blog has a list of my forthcoming speaking engagements on the sidebar, I realize that some of you only ever see the feed so I thought I would do a post with some upcoming opportunities to see or hear me in the wild.
If you just want to meet me, you could catch me [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Decision Management, News |
4th
February
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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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization |
11th
August
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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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Optimization |
14th
April
2008
As I could not attend all of IMPACT 2008 and as there were hundreds of sessions, I thought I would post as complete a set of posts as I could (with help from Dan Zrobok), starting with mine:
Blogging Live from IMPACT – Opening Keynotes Part I
Live from IMPACT – Opening Keynotes Part II
Live from IMPACT [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Blogging |