Posts Tagged ‘Java’

4th June 2009

First Look – Pervasive DataRush

Pervasive is a global software company with 200+ employees that has been profitable for the last 8 years and best known for btrieve (now Pervasive PSQL) and their data integration products. The company is busy expanding into new markets and Pervasive DataRush is one of their new products. They see a new generation of data [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining, Product News | 0 Comments

18th May 2009

More on Business Rules in Legacy Modernization

Cyrus Montakab posted on Business Rules in Legacy Modernization recently in response to a post of mine and I wanted to respond to it. I wanted to respond in particular to his comment that:
even for the modules that can be fitted into a business rule, is it viable to re-architect re-factor the existing COBOL code [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management | 2 Comments

22nd April 2009

A Response to a cowardly programmer

I got a comment recently from “Joe” who was too much of a coward to actually post his name, his email or to link to his own blog/site/twitter feed. You can read it on my post Here’s a couple of skills developers will need in the years ahead. His comment was so indicative of the [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules | 4 Comments

22nd April 2009

First Look – DeltaR onRules

Delta-R’s product onRules is Java-based, service oriented application. Based on open source like the Spring, Hibernate, Java Server Faces r UI, Groovy for scripting etc. It is fully web based – thin client – and the resulting services are deployed as web services. It is available in English and Spanish.
The software starts with a tree/pane [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Decision Management, Product News | 1 Comment

16th April 2009

First Look – IDIOM Decision Manager

I got an update from the folks at IDIOM recently. The founders say they got started with data modeling in the early 80s and realized this could not deliver model-driven development because the whole process thing did not work. By the 90s they had found an approach that worked as a model-driven approach but the [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management, Product News | 0 Comments

18th March 2009

Would IBM buying Sun impact the decision management market? Nope.

As my twitter feed starting warming up with thoughts on IBM and Sun I started to think – what impact would this have on the decision management market? I read what Steve Hamm had to say over on BusinessWeek – Why IBM Wants Sun and Tony Baer’s IBM buying Sun. Why Bother? But decision management [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management, News | 0 Comments

5th March 2009

First Look – Visual Rules

I sat down with Innovations Software Technology, now part of the Bosch group, to get my first good look at Visual Rules in a while. Release 4.4 is the current version (they released 4.3 in November and 4.4 just this week).
The tool is written in Java and based on Eclipse. About half their users are [...]

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23rd January 2009

IBM and ILOG – Java, COBOL AND .Net

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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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management | 1 Comment

14th January 2009

First Look – Mobile Agent Technologies

Mobile Agent Technologies ( www.agentos.net) is an early stage start-up offering an integrated platform for decision automation- Einstein Enterprise. This combines and integrates various technologies typically sold separately, like business rules and analytics, and is intended as a horizontal product for the automation and management of decisions.
Einstein Enterprise is Java-based and combines open source and [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Data Mining, Decision Management, Product News | 1 Comment

13th January 2009

Hardcoding + procedural code = bad news

In a blog post about Hardcoding Considered Harmful – or is it? Jeff Palermo said
Oren Eini boldly makes the assertion that a system is simpler to maintain when configuration is hard-coded in one place within the system. Coupled with an automated testing and deployment process, changing configuration can be just as simple and predictable [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management | 3 Comments

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