process

Lisa Kart, Roy Schulte and Teresa Jones of Gartner recently published Find the Best Approach to Decision Management. It’s a great piece and if you are a Gartner subscriber you should definitely read it and share it around your organization. Even if you are not you should seriously consider getting it from Gartner as it makes [...]

We recently completed a series of posts on the role of decision management in legacy modernization so I thought I would gather the various resources up in one place: First I wrote this piece with 4 reminders about legacy modernization. I followed up with a 5 step processs for decision-centric legacy modernization Claye Green or our partner [...]

I am presenting (demonstrating really) on Decision Modeling for Simpler, Smarter, More Agile Processes at bpmNEXT March 27. A live demonstration of DecisionsFirst Modeler, a collaborative cloud-based environment for decision modeling, will show how the Decision Model and Notation standard works. In addition, you’ll see how teams can collaborate on these models, how they can link [...]

After our successful webinar last week I wanted to highlight the various resources for those using Decision Management and Business Rules to develop compliant systems. Compliance, and the need to automate compliance across multiple processes and systems, drives many organizations to adopt business rules and Business Rules Management Systems. Combining this technology with a Decision Management [...]

I recently gave a webinar with Jan Purchase of LuxMagi on Agile and Cost Effective Financial Compliance (recording here) and thought I would highlight some of the key challenges in compliance: Scale, Transparency, Consistency, Agility and Effectiveness: Scale There are more and more regulations that involve an increasing number of rules to ensure compliance. Decision Management, and decision [...]

Oracle Event Processing is designed to provide high throughput and low latency processing against continuously streaming data—what is sometimes call Complex Event Processing. It handles real-time correlation between incoming data streams, time sensitive alerts, aggregations and calculations, pattern seeking in the stream etc. Critically, especially when one is dealing with very large volumes of streaming [...]

I was pointed to a blog post today from the folks at Forrester talking about their Governance Risk and Compliance Platform wave report.  In an era of increasing regulation and increasing costs for compliance failures, these kinds of platforms are clearly important. These platforms help you manage documentation, track overall levels of risk, generate required reporting, [...]

Well it’s official – the Object Management Group’s Board of Directors has voted to publish the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) specification. You can see the press release here. Decision Management Solutions is excited to be a submitter for this new standard. As I say in the press release: “Decision modeling is transforming how organizations adopt powerful [...]

I last got an update on RapidMiner back in March 2012. The company was founded in 2007 and has 40 employees worldwide. The free product has reached 10,000 downloads a month and the product has some 35,000 active deployments with over 500 customers worldwide (40 added in the last 6 months). The company recently secured [...]

Final session at this year’s Building Business Capability conference with some closing thoughts from the chairs of the conference. Panels are always tough to blog but here are some takeaways: Strategy is central to anything you do at any scale And I would add that they should be linked to the processes and decisions. Many [...]

I am giving a webinar at 9am Pacific/Noon Eastern on November 20 on “The Decision Management Manifesto Explained” The Decision Management Manifesto lays out key principles of Decision Management. It explains why decisions are central to your requirements process and why you need to explicitly design decisions before applying technology. It lays out the core [...]

I am speaking at the Insurance Analytics Symposium this week so I thought I would post a link to a white paper relevant to the insurance industry – Next Generation Claims Systems with Decision Management. Decision Management delivers next generation claims systems that act immediately, increase agility, consistency and accuracy, improve customer satisfaction, speed response and [...]

Regular readers know that there is an events category on the blog that shows the upcoming opportunities to hear me speak, attend one of my webinars, or come to a workshop. These get tweeted  by me (@jamet123) but for various technical reasons don’t appear on the home page except as part of the calendar widget. [...]

I am giving a webinar on Decision-Centric, Intelligent Processes with Mark Mastop of Blueriq on September 18th at 10am Eastern/16:00 CET. Intelligent processes are dynamic, flexible, transparent and adaptive. They deliver consumer-centric services that can respond to rapidly changing business conditions and complex regulatory environments while simplifying IT and leveraging scarce resources. Decisions, and the [...]

The white paper of the week this week is Becoming a Decision-Centric Enterprise Organisations face many challenges in today’s business climate. Organisations whose success or failure is determined by the decisions they make are handicapped by systems that are centered on processes or functions. As a result, these organisations struggle to improve business productivity while [...]

I recently caught up with Yseop (“Easy-op”), artificial intelligence software designed to write the way a human would do helping turn analytics and other information into natural language. Yseop was founded in 2008 by a technologist and an angel investor but the product is based on over 20 years of research. Yseop is headquartered in [...]

A new week and a new white paper. This week’s it’s all about Next Generation Claims Systems with Decision Management: Decision Management delivers next generation claims systems that act immediately, increase agility, consistency and accuracy, improve customer satisfaction, speed response and reduce costs. Insurers can achieve significant speed-to-market gains, reduce fraud and create innovative new [...]

A new week and a new white paper. This week’s is Becoming a Decision-Centric Organization Organisations face many challenges in today’s business climate. Organisations whose success or failure is determined by the decisions they make are handicapped by systems that are centered on processes or functions. As a result, these organisations struggle to improve business productivity [...]

Les Rechan and Niel Isford came up to wrap up the first day to talk about IBM’s focus on Client Experience. The products, as was noted earlier, are focusing on being Easy, Simple and Fast to make them easier to consume. From a licensing perspective IBM is working with clients on an IBM Unlimited License [...]