Business Rules

We have a set of online training coming up in July: Introduction to Decision Management to introduce the key concepts and terminology of Decision Management and provide a framework for successful business rules and analytic projects Decision Modeling with DMN to learn how to model requirements using the Decision Model and Notation standard, the cornerstone technique for [...]

We work with a lot of business rules architects and we see that more and more of them are using decision modeling as part of their business rules management system (BRMS) implementations. I recently wrote a series of blog posts – 3 Reasons Rules Architects Are Adopting Decision Modeling – over on our company blog. You can [...]

I am giving a webinar on DecisionsFirst Modeler and IBM ODM Integration Wednesday June 22 at 2pm Eastern/11am Pacific in which I will demonstrate the integration capability of DecisionsFirst Modeler Enterprise Edition with IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM). In the webinar I will Quickly introduce DecisionsFirst Modeler as a platform for decision modeling with DMN Discuss the integration of [...]

I am participating in an International Institute for Analytics webinar, 9am Pacific on June 23 “Prescribing the Right Decisions with Prescriptive Analytics” Automation of everyday activities holds the promise of consistency, accuracy and relevancy. When applied to business operations, the additional benefits of governance, adaptability and risk avoidance are realized. Prescriptive analytic empowers both systems [...]

One of the most persistent problems with decision modeling in my experience is the tendency of people to think of decision modeling as a one-time requirements effort. Many teams are convinced that building a decision model using the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard (white paper here) is going to help them with their business rules [...]

We are running our new, highly reviewed Decision Table Modeling with DMN training featuring leading decision table expert Jan Vanthienen July 26-28 9:30am-11:30am Pacific each time. When representing and analyzing business decisions in real business situations and processes, decision tables have always proven a powerful approach. Decision table methodology, however, is more than putting some rules in a few [...]

We are running our regularly scheduled, and highly reviewed, Decision Modeling with DMN training again July 19-21, 9:30am-11:30am Pacific each time. Decision modeling with the new Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard is fast becoming the definitive approach for building more effective processes and for specifying requirements for business rules and predictive analytic projects. With decision modeling, [...]

We are running our regularly scheduled, and highly reviewed, Introduction to Decision Management training again July 12-14, 10am-11:30am Pacific each time. A concise course for executives, managers and stakeholders stressing the key concepts and terminology of the proven decision management approach. This approach underpins the successful deployment of business rules management systems (BRMS) and predictive [...]

Jan Purchase and I are working away on our book, Available now! Real-World Decision Modeling with DMN and ahead of the publication we have made a series of short videos about decisions, decision modeling and DMN. These have been posted over on our company blog but here they are for you reference. Check them out. What is [...]

Sparkling Logic is focused on enabling business and data analysts to manage automate decisions better and faster – what they call Analytics driven Decision Management. Sparkling Logic was founded in 2010 and I have blogged a few times about their decisioning platform (most recently here). Customers include Equifax, Paypal, FirstRate, Accela, Northrop Grumman and others [...]

I am giving a webinar on Decision Modeling with DMN for RedHat JBoss BRMS Thursday May 26th at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific in which I will demonstrate the new integration capability of DecisionsFirst Modeler Enterprise Edition with RedHat JBoss BRMS. In the webinar I will Introduce Decision Modeling with DMN Discuss the new integration of DecisionsFirst Modeler [...]

I am speaking at the ODM/iLOG BRMS Meetup on Tuesday May 24, 2016 at 6pm Pacific in the IBM Offices at 1001 Hillsdale Blvd, Foster City (map) on Decision Modeling, DMN and IBM ODM. Decision Modeling with the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard is a powerful way to maximize the ROI to be gained from [...]

This was my first briefing on Statistica since I reviewed v11 in 2012. Statsoft was established in 1984 and acquired by Dell in March 2014. The product has been continuously developed to the point where it has over 16,000 integrated functions.  Since acquisition, Dell has been focused on integrating it into Dell systems and processes [...]

As Jan and I work on our book, Available now! Real-World Decision Modeling with DMN, we have been discussing some of the common misconceptions about decision modeling that we’ve encountered among adopters. This is going to be one of the chapters in the book, in which we analyze misguided applications of decision modeling and their consequences, but [...]

I am giving a tutorial at this year’s Building Business Capability Conference on Decision Modeling with DMN Decision modeling is fast becoming a must know technique for business analysts and business architects. Decision modeling aligns processes, business rules and data in the most optimal way possible. When analytics or business rules need to be integrated [...]

Lisa Kart and Roy Schulte recently published a new research report Develop Good Decision Models to Succeed at Decision Management (subscription required). This is the first piece of formal research published by Gartner on decision modeling. Their introduction text says The industry trends toward algorithmic business and decision automation are driving wider adoption of the decision management [...]

One of the fun things going on over at the Decision Management Community is a series of challenges based on various real or real-ish problems. For each the site encourages folks to develop and submit a decision model to show how the problem described could be solved. This month there was one on Port Clearance Rules [...]

The Call for Speakers is open for DecisionCAMP 2016 until April 1st. This year DecisionCAMP will be hosted by the International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) on July 7, 2016 at Stony Brook University, New York, USA. This event will aim to summarize the current state in Decision Management with a particular focus on the use of the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) [...]

I got an update from a new player in the decision management market today – ACTICO. They aren’t really new, though, as they are using the Bosch SI business rules management system, Visual Rules (last reviewed by me in 2010). The Visual Rules business has been split with Bosch SI focusing on IoT and manufacturing and ACTICO focusing [...]