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Buying predictive analytics like books – Zementis ADAPA

June 20, 2008

Zementis has recently announced its ADAPA predictive analytics edition for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. This essentially allows you to deploy PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language, an XML format for defining predictive analytic models) on the Amazon compute cloud. Based on their Enterprise Edition (which has PMML deployment, reporting and business rules (using Drools), this [...]

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Intalio 2.0

June 18, 2008

Ismael Ghalimi presented his vision of “what’s next” and started with some history. In 1998 he started work on what he now calls “Office 2.0″ and, while prototyping ideas, he met the other founders and started to put together a plan for a platform that would allow him (a self-confessed poor programmer) to build web [...]

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Business-Empowered Process Implementation

June 17, 2008

Bruce Silver led a panel on business-empowerment and BPMN. He emphasized that BPM is an approach, BPMS is a software stack for supporting this new approach AND that there is change in how business and IT work together. Business-empowered implementation is what he uses to describe this – no break between the business view [...]

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Live from DAMA – Impact of Service Oriented Architecture on Data Modeling: A Case Study

March 20, 2008

First session today was some folks from Allstate Financial talking about the Impact of Service Oriented Architecture on Data Modeling: A Case Study. AllState Financial has the large number of data sources typical of a large corporation. Each line of business has its own administrative systems and mergers and acquisitions also create new data sources. [...]

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Presentations from the SOA Consortium

January 3, 2008

The folks at OMG have just published the presentations from the recent SOA Consortium meeting. I blogged about some of these – a discussion of CIO concerns about SOA and Sandy Carter of IBM. You can find the following PDFs on the OMG site:

Sandy Carter of IBM, Keynote on SOA Skills
Judith Hurwitz of Hurwitz & [...]

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