Review

Are your systems just interfaces to a data structure?

December 29, 2011

Tad Anderson just wrote a great review of Decision Management Systems, my new book, over on his blog on the SOA World Magazine site. Two of his comments struck me particularly. The first summarized what I consider to be the biggest limiting factor in information systems today:
There are not too many systems being created today [...]

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Book Review – Business Rule Revolution: Running Business the Right Way

August 1, 2009

Business Rule Revolution: Running Business the Right Way by Barbara Von Halle, Larry Goldberg
The book is a collection of chapters, not necessarily designed to be read in sequence. The chapters include:

A great summary of various rules projects surveyed by KPI showing the focus on agility, consistency, knowledge management, legacy modernization, business control (though interestingly not [...]

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InfoWorld Review of ILOG Rules for .NET

July 31, 2008

My friend Steve has been using the ILOG Rules for .NET product (which you can now download for an extended trial as I discussed here) and has written a nice little review of it – Lab test: ILOG Rules for .Net meshes well with Microsoft. There’s a lot to like in the .Net version of [...]

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Book Review by Ade McCormack

June 30, 2008

Ade McCormack, author of The IT Value Stack (reviewed previously) and columnist at the FT in England, just reviewed the book for this blog. You can read his review of Smart (Enough) Systems over on his blog.

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Book Review – groundswell

June 12, 2008

Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
I have just finished reading Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. Groundswell is a great book providing a thorough and up to date discussion of how to use social media, and more, to connect with and energize your customers. The book approaches the discussion [...]

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Book review for the British Computer Society

January 21, 2008

Ian Graham of Trireme reviewed Smart (enough) Systems for the British Computer Society’s magazine IT Now. You can read the online review here.

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Book reviews on Dr Dobb’s Journal

December 17, 2007

Scott Ambler reviewed the book on Dr Dobbs’ Journal today – Dr. Dobb’s Agile Newsletter 12/07.

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Cyril Brookes discusses the book

December 12, 2007

My friend Cyril Brookes published a Q&A about the book here – Memo to Business Analysts: A Compelling Treatise on Why and How Businesses should Automate Decisions. Enjoy.

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Book review on Intelligent Enterprise

November 7, 2007

Sandy Kemsley posted her review of Smart (Enough) Systems to the Intelligent Enterprise blog – Smart Enough Systems: Change Rules, Not Processes

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Book Reviewed on Column2

October 26, 2007

Sandy Kemsley, a well known BPM blogger, reviewed the book over on Column2 – Smart Enough Systems.

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James Interviewed and Book Excerpted on InfoQ

September 19, 2007

Jean-Jacque Dubray interviewed James for InfoQ and the site carried an excerpt of Chapter 10 – Book Excerpt and Review: Smart (Enough) Systems

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Book review on KD Nuggets

September 12, 2007

KD Nuggets, an online newsletter for data mining and related topics, published Joe McKendrick’s review of Smart (Enough) Systems here.
Technorati Tags: ebizQ, KD Nuggets, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, data mining

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Book reviewed in DM Review

August 27, 2007

Steve Miller reviewed Smart (Enough) Systems in his August 23rd OpenBI Forum column in DM Review – Smart (Enough) Systems – BI Engage
Technorati Tags: analytics, Business Intelligence, Decision Management, DM Review, EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems

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Review on the BI in Action blog

July 19, 2007

Joe McKendrick wrote a review of the book on the ebizQ BI in Action blog – Why We Can Go to the Moon, But We Can’t Make Informed Decisions.
Technorati Tags: Business Intelligence, Business Rules, Decision Management, EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, ebizQ

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James interviewed on Intelligent Enterprise

July 9, 2007

Doug Henschen of Intelligent Enterprise published a Q&A with James “Smart Systems Without Rocket Science“
Technorati Tags: EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, Intelligent Enterprise

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Review on The Performance Guys blog

July 2, 2007

Pat Morrissey of Savvion, who wrote a testimonial for the book, reviewed it on The Performance Guys blog.

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