Books

The current issue of BPM Strategies magazine has a Q&A on decision management – check out the online version of the magazine (members of the BPM Institute only).

CS TechCast is a podcast series released every Monday hosted by Eric Johnson, Eric Beehler, and Josh Jones. Each week they discuss the latest Information Technology trends and news, and bring you interviews with key members of the IT Community. This week they included a nice little interview with me and Neil about Smart (enough) [...]

Next month (February 24th – 26th), I am going to be attending ILOG’s user conference: I will be introducing and acting as host for a couple of sessions on best practices and giving a lunch and learn on Tuesday. I will be there the whole time, blogging from the BRMS track so look me up [...]

Ian Graham of Trireme reviewed Smart (enough) Systems for the British Computer Society’s magazine IT Now. You can read the online review here.

For those of you who get TDWI‘s BI Journal, the most recent issue has an except from Smart (Enough) Systems titled “Inside Enterprise Decision Management“

Just heard that Symbol-Plus Publishing of St. Petersburg will be translating Smart (Enough) Systems into Russian. Interesting…

Scott Ambler reviewed the book on Dr Dobbs’ Journal today – Dr. Dobb’s Agile Newsletter 12/07.

My friend Cyril Brookes published a Q&A about the book here – Memo to Business Analysts: A Compelling Treatise on Why and How Businesses should Automate Decisions. Enjoy.

One of my favorite things to do on my blog is respond to questions from readers. To make it easy to find these going forward I have added a new category – Reader Questions. Email me (james at smartenoughsystems.com) if you have a question you’d like me to answer on the blog. Anyway, this week [...]

I just noticed that amazon.com is discounting the book so, if you (or your friends) don’t own a copy, now would be a great time to buy one. You can buy it here for just $41.00!

Dave Wright and Scott Ambler have started a discussion about the book over on the Requirements Network – check out this topic (registration required) if you want to join in.

Sandy Kemsley posted her review of Smart (Enough) Systems to the Intelligent Enterprise blog – Smart Enough Systems: Change Rules, Not Processes

The book was excerpted for Thomas Erl’s SOA Magazine – Smart Enough for SOA: Incorporating Enterprise Decision Management into Service Design

I participated in recording this Business Decision Management roundtable with some folks for Brainstorm Group and I highly recommend it. EnjoyTechnorati Tags: business decision management, business rules, decision management, EDM, enterprise decision management, predictive analytics, Brainstorm

Sandy Kemsley, a well known BPM blogger, reviewed the book over on Column2 – Smart Enough Systems.

James was interviewed about Smart (Enough) Systems over on eStrata’s Multichannel Musings blog by Don Obregon – Making Smart (Enough) Decisions

The book was cited by Steve Miller in his DM Review column “Super Crunchers – Lessons for BI Learned and Confirmed.” Steve described the book as providing “painstaking detail on how to use analytics, decision rules and optimization techniques to automate routine decisions”. Technorati Tags: analytics, Business Intelligence, Decision Management, DM Review, Smart (Enough) Systems, [...]

Jean-Jacque Dubray interviewed James for InfoQ and the site carried an excerpt of Chapter 10 – Book Excerpt and Review: Smart (Enough) Systems

In his blog post “Process, Prediction and Icahn’s Interest in BEA“, Doug Henschen cited Smart (Enough) Systems as a “cogent” look at how analytics need to get in synch with real-time operational decision-making.Technorati Tags: BPM, business process management, Doug Henschen, Intelligent Enterprise, operational decisions, real-time, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, predictive analytics