18th
December
2008
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 |
21st
November
2008
Jim Sinur brought up an interesting point today when he blogged IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP have bought Business Rule Technology. What’s up with that? The big players seem to be toying with business rules – there’s plenty of activity but not much understanding or commitment.
SAP bought Yasu but until recently did not show much [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules |
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 |
11th
November
2008
I got a quick overview of Savvion 7.5 this week. Savvion is one of the pure-play BPM vendors with customers in Telecommunications, Media, Financial Services and Manufacturing (along with some retail and healthcare). They released version 7.5 at the end of September.
Savvion has recently been investing in domain-specific vertical solutions built on their horizontal [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Product News |
28th
July
2008
I got a chance to speak with ILOG today and do some thinking so it’s time to write more about the IBM and ILOG announcement. As it is an acquisition of one publicly traded company by another neither company can legally say very much. As a result I, like everyone else, have a bunch of [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization, Product News |
17th
October
2007
SAP made a big move today towards enabling decision management. Not only does the SAP platform seem more and more service-capable, I hear today that they have bought Yasu, one of the smaller but capable business rules management systems. It will be interesting to see how SAP plans to use Yasu. Hopefully they won’t just [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules |