16th
April
2009
I got an update from the folks at IDIOM recently. The founders say they got started with data modeling in the early 80s and realized this could not deliver model-driven development because the whole process thing did not work. By the 90s they had found an approach that worked as a model-driven approach but the [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management, Product News |
5th
March
2009
One of the questions I get often is around how decisions and business rules relate. People want to know so they can design their system and so they can manage change. I recently got a request for a link to a post describing the difference and I realize that, though I have lots of posts [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management |
4th
March
2009
Syndicated from ebizQ
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 |
17th
November
2008
Savvion today announced it has released a Business Rules Management System. Now this may suprise you – after all Savvion is a Business Process Management vendor – but I think it is a sign of the growing recognition that decision management is important to business process management. Before this announcement Savvion was using Yasu’s product [...]
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posted by James Taylor in News |
7th
October
2008
Thomas Erl presented on the Architecture of Service-Orientation to start the breakout sessions and build on his opening comments. The key challenge is that of the endless IT progress cycle – the business continually needs more and different support from IT to deal with changes to business models while IT has new and changing capabilities [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management |
4th
March
2008
At least it’s blog cannot. I saw this post by my old friend Paul Vincent – Business rule execution: stateless/transactional, stateful/monitoring, or both? and tried to comment on it. Sadly the Tibco blog can’t add 6 and 2 and so rejected my comment (the sum was spam protection). So here’s my comment:
I am not sure [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules |