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Don’t forget to register for the Ron Ross Webinar this week

February 9, 2010

Just a quick reminder that Ron Ross, probably the best known writer and speaker on business rules, is giving a webinar this Thursday on Decisioning with Business Rules for 2010 and Beyond. Details here or just go to http://decisionmanagement.omnovia.com/registration/pid=81811264111069 to register.

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Business processes and decisions – an emerging consensus?

January 21, 2010

Bruce Silver wrote a couple of interesting posts on this topic – Integrating Process and Rules – Part 1 and Part 2. Reading Bruce’s posts, and thinking back on the various posts I have written about business process and business decision management (Risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning, Adding decisioning to your BPM initiative or [...]

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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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Book Review – Principles of the Business Rule Approach

August 1, 2009

Principles of the Business Rule Approach by Ron Ross
This book is one of the classics on business rules from one of the most long-standing authors in the area, Ron Ross. The book is a little more than three years old but, as it is not really focused on technology for managing business rules so much [...]

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RuleSpeak – some useful guidelines for writing rules

April 9, 2009

The folks at BR Solutions launched a new website that makes some of the RuleSpeak guideliness for writing good rules available for download at www.RuleSpeak.com. It offers basic RuleSpeak 2.0 guidelines in English, Spanish, German and (soon) Dutch. Ron Ross wrote an article about this in the April issue of the Business Rules Journal eUpdate.
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Come to the Enterprise Decision Management Summit in 2009

January 28, 2009

Enterprise Decision Management Summit 2009
at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nov. 1-5, 2009

Business Rules
Decision Management
Business Alignment Symposium – New!
“How-to” Project Labs – New!
Business Process Management Track – New!
CEP Workshop – New!

Make sure you’re on the Business Rules Forum mailing list – sign-up [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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EDM Summit – Day 2 Begins

October 29, 2008

Getting ready for my keynote and wanted to post a few quick things. Firstly other bloggers: Sandy Kemsley, Paul Vincent and Mike Kaviz are all here and are/will be posting. Here are the links I found so far:

Business Rules Forum: Vendor Panel
Business Rules Forum: Mixing Rules and Process
Business Rules Forum: Ron Ross keynote
Business Intelligence meets [...]

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Live from the EDM Summit – From Here to Agility

October 28, 2008

I am at the EDM Summit this week and will be blogging live from some of the sessions and posting random thoughts and comments in addition. Despite the difficult market conditions, attendance looks good with a nice full room for the keynote and attendees from 17 countries. This year’s event also has a dozen new [...]

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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 [...]

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From business rules to enterprise decisioning (again)

November 14, 2007

Ron Ross recently gave his keynote from the Business Rules Forum as a webinar. You can access the recording (free registration required) here. It’s a great overview and well worth your time.

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Live from Business Rules Forum – From Business Rules to Enterprise Decisioning

October 23, 2007

Ron Ross kicked off the main sessions today with his keynote “From Business Rules to Enterprise Decisioning“. He opened by saying that it is easy to think that everything that can be automated, has been. Yet there is a clear gap between what our existing systems can do and what we need. Part of this [...]

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