Here is a recap of Decision Management product news for Q2 2011
Business Rules
- First Look Corticon 5
A long established vendor in the business rules management space, Corticon describe themselves as focused on delivering better, faster decisions by automating business rules. - First Look – OpenRules Decision Management System
OpenRules allows business users to manage rules directly in Excel, OpenOffice or Google Docs (allowing collaborative rules management). - First Look – Sparkling Logic
A social, cloud-based environment designed to help companies find the best, most defined decision logic. - Update – New Wisdom RuleGuide
RuleGuide manages information about decisions, rule families or rule sets, and a glossary of terms. It also provides analysis and governance for these objects.
Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Platform
- Update – Angoss
Release 7.5 of their data mining and predictive analytics software. - First Look – Revolution and Netezza
Recently announced partnership that supports both the creation of models in-database and the execution of the models in database. - First Look – Yottamine
Yottamine is focused on helping companies build predictive models. - First Look – 11Ants Analytics
11Ants Analytics is a spin-off out of the University of Waikato (the source of the WEKA project), and has commercialized technology for automating the production of predictive models. - Update – Zementis
Predictive decisioning platform, an update on recent announcements, partnerships and new features. - IBM’s Big Data Platform and Decision Management
IBM has recently announced a new strategy for bringing Big Data to the enterprise.
Optimization
- First Look – Drools Planner
Drools Planner is a sub project of the Drools project that started 4 years ago as Drools Solver. - First Look – OpenRules Rule Solver and Rule Learner
Along with traditional Business Rules components, OpenRules includes two other important decision management components.
Decision Management
- First Look – Oracle Real-Time Decisions Manager
Oracle’s core Decision Management product, RTD’s execution model is as a pure play Decision Service.
Business Process Management
- Update – Software AG
An update from Software AG after they announced webMethods 8.2 and ARIS 7.2. - IBM Business Process Manager 7.5
The new Business Process Manager 7.5 brings together the WebSphere Lombardi Edition and WebSphere Process Server in a single go-forward product. See also IBM Websphere Update
Applications
- First Look – Activant DynaChange rules
Activant (who recently agreed to be acquired and merged with Epicor) is an ERP provider focused on distribution and retail. - First Look – Talent Analytics Advisor
Solutions that provide relevant information to help companies anticipate the impact talent has on their business goals. - First Look – G Stat
Advanced analytical and data mining solutions. - Update – In2Clouds
Update on added support for ensemble models, moved to allow private/hybrid cloud deployment and completed their service definition API.
Business Intelligence
- First Look – Information Builders
Business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information integration/management (EIM).