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What You Need to Know about Decisioning with Business Rules for 2010 and Beyond with Ron Ross

January 21, 2010

[ February 11, 2010; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] Our first webinar of 2010 is Ron Ross on Decisioning with Business Rules for 2010 and Beyond

How can you achieve an order-of-magnitude improvement in your current way of supporting business processes? Learn how other companies have done it – deliberately and with no silver bullets. In this thoughtful discussion, Ron reviews what leading companies are [...]

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Webinar: Capture your complex business rules by asking pragmatic questions

October 23, 2009

[ November 17, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] The sixth webinar in the series. Decisioning rules can come by the hundreds or thousands.  These rules often involve large number of criteria. How do you capture that many business rules with so many variations without going crazy?  This presentation outlines a pragmatic approach based on developing business questions to create complex decision tables.  These [...]

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Book Review – Business Rules Applied: Building Better Systems Using the Business Rules Approach

August 1, 2009

Business Rules Applied: Building Better Systems Using the Business Rules Approach by Barbara von Halle
This book is one of the classics on developing information systems with a business rules approach. Not only does the book give a good overview of the key concepts in business rules, it also lays out the core tasks and techniques [...]

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Book Review – Business Rules Management and Service-Oriented Architecture

August 1, 2009

Business Rules Management and Service-Oriented Architecture by Ian Graeme
This is a fairly technical look at business rules, the technology of a business rules management system and patterns of using them. The book gives a fairly quick overview of SOA and then introduces business rules, both as an approach and as a class of technology. He [...]

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First Look – New Wisdom RuleGuide

April 23, 2009

New Wisdom was founded in 2006 (as a spinoff of Lambert Consultants) to develop software for managing business source rules. The product, RuleGuideTM, is designed to capture metadata about the rules and to support discovery and analysis of rules in projects adopting a business rules management system (BRMS). They see this as about 65% of [...]

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Harnessing and Coordinating Warranty Best Practices in a Global Enterprise

March 11, 2009

Terry Adams of Ingersoll Rand, the parent company of Trane, presented on harnessing and coordinating warranty best practices. IR includes Trance, Thermo King, Schlage, Steelcraft and others for about $17B worldwide. All these acquisitions have experience and systems so Ingersoll Rand has a vision of a Business Operating System to drive common [...]

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Introducing SOA Design Patterns

October 7, 2008

Thomas was back on talking about the catalog of 85 SOA Design Patterns that he is publishing this year – SOA Design Patterns. Design patterns are a field-testing or proven design solution to a common design problem. Some are compound, most are atomic. These SOA Patterns overcome common design challenges for the successful adoption of [...]

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IBM, SOA and Business Rules

August 7, 2008

Well it seems that IBM believes in business rules too. I was reading SOMA: A method for developing service-oriented solutions which I found thanks to Eric Roch’s post on IBM’s SOA Methodology anda couple of things struck me:

Business rules get called out explicitly both in the meta model Eric shows and in the overall flow. [...]

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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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Live from DAMA – What do they mean, BUSINESS Metadata?

March 18, 2008

Next up was a session from some folks at ASG talking about business metadata. They started by discussing the metadata audience and how it is changing as the syntactic and semantic richness of metadata increases. Initially there was a focus on consistent definitions for, say, COBOL copy books. Gradually expanded out to DBAs, Data Architects [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Best Practices in Agile Business Rules Development

February 24, 2008

Next up was Jerome Boyer presenting the Agile Business Rules Development Methodology, an approach ILOG makes available based on agile methodologies. The methodology has four tracks – Business Process, Data, Business Rules and Architecture. The balance between them varies and all four are built in iterations. ILOG has developed a methodology based on the Rational [...]

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Book Review – Data Mining Techniques

December 26, 2006

Data Mining Techniques: For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management
This is one of the classic works on data mining and well worth the read.I really liked the book both because it is well written and because, although it drilled into a fair amount of detail about some of the techniques, it started each new section [...]

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