Posts Tagged ‘SOA’

15th April 2009

First Look – Oracle Business Rules 11g

I got an update on the Oracle Business Rules product recently. Oracle is an interesting company – they have the components of decision management but do not yet have them under a single umbrella. For instance, they have in-database data mining (blogged about here), the Real Time Decisions (RTD) engine, event processing rules and so [...]

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

1st April 2009

Here’s how decision management simplifies process management

Syndicated from ebizQ
Checking out some articles on the Business Rules Community I saw a great illustration of making processes simpler and more agile with decision management. In How Business Rules Define Business Processes (free registration required), Jan Vanthienen and Stijn Goedertier give some nice examples of how standard business process notation, with its abject failure [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management | 1 Comment

4th March 2009

19th Century Decision Management

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John Reynolds over on the Thoughtful Programmer had a great post a little while back – 19th Century BPMS. In it he said
I sometime find it useful to describe a BPMS in terms of things and people that you probably would have found in an office or factory in the 1890s
This struck me as [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Data Mining, Decision Management | 1 Comment

19th February 2009

High-Performance Scoring of Healthcare Data

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Natasha Balac from UC San Diego and Michael Zeller from Zementis (their product was blogged here and their support for the amazon.com compute cloud was discussed here) presented on the use of Medicare and Medicaid data to detect and prevent fraud. The high computing center at UC San Diego (San Diego [...]

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13th February 2009

Decision Management and software development II – Model Driven Engineering

Continuing this weeks posts on using decision management to improve development,  I thought I would post on how decision management should be part of model-driven development (model-driven engineering, a model-driven architecture or whatever).
The recent, and premature, discussion of the death of SOA led Johan den Haan to post SOA is dead; long live Model-Driven SOA [...]

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

5th February 2009

DIALOG Group RCI and Legacy Migration

Frank DiGiovanni of Group RCI (a vacation exchange and vacation rental company, part of Wyndham Worldwide) presented on their journey  – a legacy modernization using ILOG Rules. Frank  identified SOA, legacy migration from mainframe to SOA and how business rules complements these as his key topics. Group RCI’s core problem was threefold:

Members: had to call [...]

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

4th February 2009

DIALOG The evolution of ILOG’s BRMS

Steve DeMuth presented on the ILOG BRMS roadmap. The roadmap is driven by ILOG’s vision of rules as a way to solve a class of problems, the need to integrate and partner with IBM (WebSphere,System Z), integration points and real use cases. The vision:

Businesses live and die on the quality of their decisions and their [...]

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

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

4th February 2009

DIALOG Keynotes – ILOG and IBM

Pierre Haren started up the keynotes with some personal comments about the excitement of being part of IBM, seeing more customers at DIALOG and hearing stories from customers about what they are doing with ILOG products. He is clearly enthused by the opportunity to reach more companies by being part of IBM than they ever [...]

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

4th February 2009

DIALOG The roadmap

On now to the roadmap, at least at a high level.
Right now there is the normal post-acquisition “blue wash” going on and by Q2 will deliver IBM versions of all ILOG’s products and, obviously IBM’s global sales force and Global Services are being spun up. The core of the roadmap is to move the BRMS [...]

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

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