BRMS

A new week and another new white paper. This week it is Beyond Business Agility: Becoming Adaptive and Analytic Business rules are a powerful tool for developing agile systems. Moving forward, becoming analytic and adaptive as well as agile will be a source of competitive advantage. This white paper is based on my keynote from the Building [...]

While at IBM IMPACT this year I was interviewed about Decision Management, Mobile and more. Check out the video below: If you want to access the white papers I mention you can find them on decisionmanagementsolutions.com/white-papers.

Here are the slides for my session at IBM IMPACT today Decision Management Cases: Agility and Adaptability from James Taylor Hope you enjoyed the posts from IMPACT. Don’t forget to sign up for the newsletter if you aren’t already and contact us if you need any help with Decision Management.

I am attending IBM IMPACT and this is a duplicate post for one running on the IBM IMPACT Blog. Business rules get everywhere – we have business rules in our user interfaces, in data quality, in business processes and more. But when organizations adopt a business rules management system they are focused on improving decision-making. [...]

I am speaking on Decision Management Cases: Agility & Adaptability in Insurance, Travel & Healthcare at IBM’s IMPACT 2013, April 30 4:00-5:00pm Business rules are a powerful technology with a proven track record building Decision Management Systems. Successful projects deliver business agility, empowering business users to manage the decision-making in their systems so they can [...]

I am giving a webinar on the advantages of a decision management approach to business rules implementations March 27, 9am Pacific/Noon Eastern. I will demonstrate how defining decision requirements adds an entirely new dimension to requirements modeling making it: Easier to get the requirements right Easier to draw the automation boundaries Easier to re-use, evolve and [...]

Version 3 of our widely read report on Decision Management System platform technologies is now available. Many thousands of people have downloaded this report since we started publishing it – remember it is free to download and share. This release contains a large section on use cases, giving lots of examples of Decision Management Systems and [...]

I wrote about Blaze Advisor 7.0 back in September. FICO is about to release Blaze Advisor 7.1 and key themes for 7.1 are a focus on increased business control and flexibility, faster time to deployment and more integrated simulation. The key driver for this comes from the steady increase in business user engagement – the [...]

I am speaking on at the IBM BPM and ODM Summit in Napa California on October 10. I am speaking on Smarter, Simpler Processes & Decisions: One of the prime causes of over-complex processes is the inclusion of decision-making in process designs. Organizations that identify the decisions in their processes and manage them as peers – [...]

As many of you know, Decision Management Solutions publishes a report on Decision Management Systems platform technologies. We have just released a new version with more vendor information, links to product reviews and great new content on best practices and key product characteristics. To recap: Decision Management Systems are agile, analytic and adaptive. They are [...]

I recently got an update from the team at Sparkling Logic. I first blogged about them back in 2011. As noted previously, the product is built on a collaborative, social platform in which people work on multiple projects. Different roles are supported, allowing everyone to have their own todos and for teams to share these [...]

I recently got an update on release 8 of IBM’s Operational Decision Management product (last reviewed here).With this release, the user experience and the user interface have been completely overhauled and the integration between rules and events has been improved. The look and feel is also increasingly shared with the BPM product and, to be [...]

The webinar that Carsten Ziegler and I gave on Building Flexible, Easy to Change, and Rock-Solid Applications with BRFplus Decision Services is now available. ASUG members can view the recording here. SAP ABAP business applications can be rightly described as high performance, robust and rock-solid. Making them also flexible and easy to change is a challenge faced [...]

3. It will take too long to get results This excuse gets trotted out for one of two reasons – either the organization feels it is just too busy to take on something new or someone has heard that the technology requires a large up-front investment in time. Let’s take these one at a time. [...]

I thought I would re-run a top 10 list from a while ago – an oldie but a goodie – on the top 10 excuses for not adopting business rules and a Business Rules Management System. #10 – We tried before and got no results There are two root causes for this excuse – over-hyping [...]

I do a lot of work with companies and organizations adopting business rules and Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) such as BRFplus and NetWeaver BRM. I wanted to share two things (as I head off to Sapphire/ASUG). First, I often find that when organizations start with business rules they begin by just trying to capture [...]

I am giving a webinar with Gagan Saxena (@Gagan_S), CIO of Apple Vacations on A New Approach to Business Design at Apple Vacations on May 22, 2012 at 10:00 am PT, 1:00 pm ET. Gagan and I will present how how Apple Vacations applied Decision Management to redesign the consumer experience and create a “smart system” [...]

There’s still time to register for the 2-day workshop in Europe next month. This covers the essentials of Decision Management, the effective use of business rules and Business Rules Management Systems and the role of analytics: Berlin – June 4/5 – Register here. The class covers: An introduction to Decisions and Decision Management Categorizing and identifying [...]

I have been going to IBM IMPACT for a couple of years now. This year’s event is just around the corner – it starts on Sunday – and I am particularly excited about this one. While it’s not the first at which I have spoken, nor the first where there have been sessions on Decision [...]