Decision Management Product News Recap Q2 2011

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).