I recently wrote a new white paper on how System Integrators (and perhaps internal consultants) can Sell Business Rules: System Integrators (SIs) often deal with complex logic and decision-making in mission critical systems that directly impact their client’s business. One way to ease managing the logic is through technology – like a business rules management [...]
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I am giving a webinar on Sell Business Rules to your Boss with Progress on July 14th at Noon ET: You know and understand the key issues you face on a day to day basis. But does your boss? Often times you are faced with developing a new business application requiring complex logic or lots of [...]
It’s been a while since I had an update on Progress Corticon – the last time was an update for v5.2 back in 2012. Progress Corticon is a mainstream Business Rules Management System with the usual Corticon Studio, Corticon Server and Corticon Enterprise Data Connector. In addition there is the Corticon BRMS for OpenEdge, linking [...]
Back in 2008 I wrote this post – The small impact of business rules on the big players, bemoaning the lack of serious investment in business rules on the part of major software companies. As we enter 2014 I thought I would revisit this post and consider what a difference 5 years makes. Let’s consider some [...]
This week’s white paper of the week is “Responsive Customer Engagement in Banking:” Relevance, real-time and recency drive improved customer engagement. Banks are facing new competitive dynamics, increasing regulatory requirements, and more demanding customers. Building share of wallet with existing customers is critical to future growth. Banks must create responsive customer engagement by delivering relevant [...]
Progress Corticon Business Rules Management System (BRMS) v5.2 was delivered in February and focused on key enhancements for natural language support, mobility, and Progress Software integration. Since the first version nearly a decade ago, Corticon has focused on offering easy-to-use tools to express and manage decision making logic. The Corticon business rules expression language is [...]
Bill Gassman spoke on the role of Business Intelligence – BI – in process improvement. Bill means “big BI” – everything to do with intelligence about your business, the discipline of BI and analytics, not just a “BI” product. The road to intelligent operations he says has “haves” and “have nots” – some have BI [...]
My friends at Progress have a survey you might enjoy – it’s short so it won’t take you long and I will be analyzing the results in a few weeks so you will find out what the results were pretty quickly. It’s at surveymonkey.com/s/decisionmanagement. You can also listen to some podcasts I did for Progress [...]
I recently wrote a white paper on Building Responsive Enterprises – One Decision at a Time for Progress Software and gave a webinar on the same topic. These are now available for download on the Progress site. Enjoy. (Updated with easier links)
I am giving a webinar on “Building Responsive Enterprises – One Decision at a Time” with Progress Software this week. I will discuss how decision management improves business performance by identifying the key decisions that drive value in your business. I will discuss: The responsive enterprise The need for decisions Business rules and business alignment [...]