The End of the IT Department - business rules to the rescue!

A colleague of mine shared a presentation given by Neil MacDonald of Gartner, Inc. titled "The End of the IT Department". Neil gave the presentation at the Financial Services Technology Summit in August of 2005. There's a lot of good...

Predictive analytics can detect growing fraud in Healthcare Claims

I saw an interesting article in CIO Insight the other day: Health IT Must Target Fraud, Group Says. The report - from the Foundation of Research and Education (FORE) of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) - says that...

Microsoft, analyzing data and EDM

An article on Microsoft's new Business Scorecard Manager in the Wall Street Journal was brought to my attention this morning. Titled "Microsoft Unveils Tool to Analyze Business Data" it discussed another extension to Microsoft's range of Business Intelligence tools. Happy...

Can rules help with SOA before "Level 5"?

In this blog entry - From ESB to ESP: action-oriented SOA - Joe McKendrick - discusses the SOA Maturity Model being promoted by some SOA vendors. The first time this 5 level model mentions rules is in level 5 Level...

Robust Web Apps with rules-driven conversations

This article in ComputerWorld - No Pause to Refresh: More Robust Web Apps - Heather Havenstein talks about the new world of richer web applications. She says: The new tools essentially eliminate the need to refresh a Web page every...

Using business rules to renovate old applications

In this article - Tough Decisions for Old Apps by Stephen Swoyer - there's a great summary of the problems of integrating legacy applications into an SOA: Web enabling or exposing mainframe applications to new and different constituencies—including non-mainframe applications—is...

Customer Segmentation to increase profits

Customer segmentation is often the first kind of analytics attempted by a company. It is not, however, only for "newbies" - even the most sophisticated companies can use better segmentation to drive better results. Take Barclaycard, one of Europe's largest...

Built to change - With Business Rules!

In his blog, Annraí O'Toole discusses building for change. In particular he quotes Roy Schulte of Gartner Roy suggested that in the past, most applications were "built to last" -- their longevity and robustness was the most prized features about...

Rethinking development with SOA and business rules

Saw an interesting blog entry today - Rethinking development - which talked about a report from the Burton Group. A couple of comments in particular caught my eye: Choose development tools and infrastructure products that support SOA design practices. Well...

Is a Services Architecture Threatening?

An interesting CIO insight article caught my eye today - Services Software Architecture: Efficient, but Threatening? This article suggested some good questions to ask about SOA and raised a number of great points about the potential for an SOA to...