BPM and Business Rules - a nice summary

Bruce Silver's blog has a nice summary of the distinction between rules in BPM and business rules as a technology -highly recommended.

Making BI productive

Meridith Levenson wrote an interesting article on Business Intelligence: Not Just for Bosses Anymore in CIO Magazine. There are some great comments in here: The new system hasn't made the business better - at least not yet - only better...

Making Decisions Automatic

Great article on Enterprise Decision Management in this month's issue of Software Magazine - Making Decisions Automatic.

Business rules and temporary applications

Interesting post on ZDNet - The age of the temporary application is here. Made me think about EDM and business rules in the context of a temporary application. The article had some great comments: But there's also a huge sea...

EDM and "the next big thing"

I like the EDS "Next Big Thing" blog and saw this post - Elevator speech about the next big thing Being able to proactively manage the complexity created by massive change through the application of new levels of automation. We...

Cross-platform approaches are the future

Interesting little snippet on the SOA blog - Survey: Java EE, .NET neck and neck. Clearly lots of companies are going to end up deploying systems to Java and .NET over the next few years. Add in the long tail...

EDM: A platform for strategic decisions

EDM is often thought of as the platform for the better decisioning of the millions of operational decisions typical within an enterprise. These are the relatively “little” decisions – such as providing a call center response to an individual customer...

Another Guest Author - Dr Rahul Asthana

Please welcome a colleague with an analytic bent, Rahul Asthana, who will be helping Barb and I add some predictive analytic flavor to the blog.

Answered some comments on the business rules FAQ

Got some interesting questions from James McGovern regarding some of the FAQs so updated them - Gartner MQ, why not open source, industry analyst coverage and standards. I updated them to answer his questions as best I could. Enjoy.

Are there any standards under development for business rules?

The lack of standards currently in the business rules space makes interoperability hard. Although many of the technical deployment standards are supported as deployment options by rules vendors, the standards specific to rules are limited: JSR-94 - some information on...