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First Look – Pervasive DataRush

June 4, 2009

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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More on Business Rules in Legacy Modernization

May 18, 2009

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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A Response to a cowardly programmer

April 22, 2009

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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First Look – DeltaR onRules

April 22, 2009

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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First Look – IDIOM Decision Manager

April 16, 2009

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

March 18, 2009

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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First Look – Visual Rules

March 5, 2009

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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IBM and ILOG – Java, COBOL AND .Net

January 23, 2009

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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First Look – Mobile Agent Technologies

January 14, 2009

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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Hardcoding + procedural code = bad news

January 13, 2009

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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First Look – Drools 5.0

October 14, 2008

When I was in the UK recently I got a chance to have a coffee with Mark Proctor and get a detailed demo of the new Drools release – 5.0.
Mark spent most of the time showing Guvnor, the new web-based business rule management system for Drools. Built with GWT this looks and works great – [...]

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Believe in business rules (I do)

August 1, 2008

Earlier this week I posted Application Development 2.0 in which I addressed what I see as some of the issues with current development practices and tried to explain why I think a declarative, business rules approach is essential. This (and some blog posts around the blogosphere) made me think about the mismatch I see when [...]

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Business Rules, Free Trials and ILOG

July 1, 2008

I am a firm believer in getting the technology for decision management into the hands of those who might use it – I often feel that people just don’t understand what’s possible. The folks over at ILOG have been offering a 6 month JRules trial since last fall. This full version has everything but the [...]

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First Look – Corticon

June 30, 2008

I got a walkthrough of Corticon‘s Business Rules product last week – the first time I have discussed it in a while. Version 5 has some interesting features. The Business Rules Foundation is a set of headless services, designed to support a variety of development tools, UI frameworks and metaphors along with a variety of [...]

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Are programmers the problem?

June 23, 2008

There was more discussion in the blogosphere about the James McGovern COBOL is Evil post – COBOL is not evil, but COBOL programmers are. Now I already posted a response to James’ post (Why don’t you replace COBOL with something useful – not Java) but this new post made me think. I should say that [...]

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Why don’t you replace COBOL with something useful (not Java)

June 13, 2008

Joe McKendrick in his Eye on the Enterprise blog had a post on legacy modernization – Time to Cut COBOL from Life Support in which he referenced a post by James McGovern The mainframe is not evil, but COBOL is… in which James says
that there’s no reason why aging COBOL apps can’t be replaced with [...]

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