James Taylor

New blog location

November 29, 2008

Well as you might have noticed I have a new blog location – jtonedm.com (JT on EDM). The blog on smartenoughsystems.com/wp is now retired and all the posts will redirect here.
If you have a link to the smartenoughsystems blog please move it – just replace smartenoughsystems.com/wp with jtonedm.com (note the dropping of the /wp).

Read the full article →

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 [...]

Read the full article →

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 [...]

Read the full article →

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 [...]

Read the full article →

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.

Read the full article →

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.

Read the full article →

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 [...]

Read the full article →

Decision Services – A Pattern for SOA

October 7, 2008

I just finished presenting at the SOA Symposium and if you are interested in my presentation you can find it on slideshare.
Previous in series Next in series

Read the full article →

Putting Analytics to Work

September 22, 2008

Here’s my presentation from the InfoCentricity User Exchange. Enjoy.
Putting Analytics To Work
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: predictive analyticsanalyticedmente…)

Previous in series Next in series

Read the full article →

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.

Read the full article →

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 [...]

Read the full article →

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 [...]

Read the full article →

Shameless Commerce – Coming to Europe

August 28, 2008

I am going to be in Europe in October and I am looking to productively fill a couple of days in my schedule. I am available Friday the 3rd, Monday the 6th and possibly Wednesday the 8th. If you are based in the London – Paris – Brussels – Munich – Frankfurt area and are [...]

Read the full article →

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 [...]

Read the full article →

Come to the Intalio User Conference and get the book for free!

May 29, 2008

Neil and I are going to be speaking (on Applying Decision Management to Make Processes Smarter, Simpler and More Agile) at the Intalio User Conference on June 17th and the nice folks at Intalio have decided that everyone who attends deserves a copy of the book. While I am sure that all the attendees are [...]

Read the full article →

James and Neil presenting at Intalio’s user conference

May 20, 2008

The folks at Intalio invited us to speak at their user conference June 17-18. We are presenting on Applying Decision Management to Make Processes Smarter, Simpler and More Agile on the first day. We would love to see you there so drop by and say hello if you are attending. Also we have a discount [...]

Read the full article →

New Expert Channel on B-Eye Network

April 22, 2008

Well there’s now another place to find our materials – I have opened for business as an expert on the B-Eye Network. Check out my channel Competing on Decisions (thanks to Neil for suggesting the name). This blog will be syndicated there but I will also be writing articles, posting white papers and generally making [...]

Read the full article →

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 [...]

Read the full article →

2008 BPM & Workflow Handbook – 30% Discount

April 16, 2008

Neil and I recently contributed a chapter to the 2008 BPM and Workflow Handbook and they just sent out a pre-release discount:
Human-centric business process management (BPM) has become the product and service differentiator. The topic now captures substantial mindshare and market share in the human-centric BPM space as leading vendors have strengthened their human-centric business [...]

Read the full article →

Howard Dresner recommends the book

April 10, 2008

Howard Dresner, now independent but previously of Gartner and Hyperion and one of the leading voices in the Business Intelligence and Performance Management space listed Some good sources and included our book and our blogs (this one and Neil’s on Intelligent Enterprise). Thanks Howard.

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →