Posts Tagged ‘simulation’

16th June 2009

Sneak Peek – ILOG Rules 7.0

ILOG, now an IBM company, is releasing the 7.0 version of their business rule management system (BRMS) family tomorrow (June 17th). Based on the demonstrations I saw, these mark a big step forward for the ILOG product range. I am going to post a full review tomorrow but I thought I would give everyone a [...]

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

16th June 2009

First Look – Vitria M3O

I got an update on Vitria for the first time in a few years a little while back. Vitria started back in 1994 with Enterprise Application Integration capabilities and has added Business Process Management, Business Activity Monitoring and ultimately Business Event Management/Complex Event Processing functionality over the last few years. They are using “Operational Intelligence” [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BI, BPM, Business Rules, Product News | 1 Comment

5th June 2009

Decision Management Event Calendar

I have decided to start running a post at the end of the week highlighting relevant web events for the following week. If you work at a vendor and want to tell me about yours, please send me an email at james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com. Likewise if you hear of something you think other readers of the blog [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Data Mining, Decision Management, News | 0 Comments

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

1st June 2009

First Look – FICO Blaze Advisor 6.7 and Decision Simulator

Back in March FICO released 6.7 of their BRMS Blaze Advisor. I got a chance to catch up with the release just recently. The focus of this release was the business user experience – an improved out of the box experience for business users. The business user experience has become increasingly critical as business users [...]

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

6th May 2009

Optimization and Business Processes

ILOG and XM presented on optimization and business processes. Optimization in this context is about mathematical optimization aimed at decision support or Operations Research. Creating plans and schedules to optimize use of resources. Optimization helps business create best possible schedules or plans, explore their alternatives and understand trade-offs between conflicting goals. For instance, how much [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Optimization | 1 Comment

4th February 2009

DIALOG Product Roadmap (not really)

Nicolas Robbe came next to give some updates on the product roadmaps. To be honest what he mostly did was summarize recent developments – nothing really about futures.
First he talked about optimization and CPLEX’s 20 year history. With CPLEX 11 they feel they can solve 70% of the very hardest optimization problems – way up [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization | 0 Comments

18th December 2008

Predictions for 2009

I just went back to check and found no predictions on the blog for 2008 (so I get a 100% accuracy rating with no errors) so I thought I would make some for 2009. In no particular order then:

Cloud computing will impact decision management.
There are already at least two decision management vendors offering decisions in [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management | 5 Comments

16th December 2008

Can the business use decision management technology without IT help?

Inspired by a post of Jim Sinur’s – Can the Business Really Use BPM Technologies Without Help? – I started thinking about the decision management corollary: Can the business use decision management technology without help?
Regular readers will know that I often refer to the dirty secret of business rules:
Business users don’t want to “maintain rules” [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management | 4 Comments

2nd December 2008

Oracle’s BI Strategy

Tobin Gilman of Oracle presented on Oracle’s BI Strategy. Oracle views Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence as coming together over time and has a single strategy. They see ERP and CRM as having enabling operational efficiencies by driving a process-centric view across silos. Clearly BPM has completed this transition. Yet management processes – reporting, [...]

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

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