Identity Theft - decisioning in action?

I saw this article on Identity Theft and the entirely coincidental press release on Fair Isaac's new Identity Fraud prevention product (Falcon One). Identity Fraud prevention is a classic example of an EDM problem. Why? Well consider the core measures...

Book Review: Principles of the Business Rules Approach

This book is one of the classics on business rules from one of the most long-standing authors in the area, Ron Ross. The book is a little more than three years old but, as it is not really focused on...

Not another attempt to "fix" requirements!

Regular readers of the blog, and there are getting to be close to 100 of you I think, will have seen my rants on requirements management as a solution for business agility before. Over on ComputerWorld today I saw another...

The two kinds of predictive analytics

I saw this article in InformationWeek today - Businesses Mine Data To Predict What Happens Next - and it made me realize that people can be confused as to what predictive analytics means in the context of decision management. In...

Interoperable Medical Records - SO WHAT?

In the Federal Times last week there was an article on Your health records online. The government is mandating interoperable medical records by 2014 to try and avoid potentially life-threatening medical errors, such as prescribing drugs that counteract other medicines...

300 Posts - time for some admin

Well this is the 300th post on this blog - something of a milestone I guess. I thought now might be a good time to remind readers of some useful features of this Typepad blog (and some other ones we...

Introductory article on business rules

In Follow the rules Marcia Jedd over at AIIM e-doc magazine gives a nice overview of business rules with some best practices outlined.

Business rules becoming mainstream?

SD Times had an article on how Business rules will play growing role in how companies develop applications and automate processes. Some nice analyst quotes as well as some from yours truly.

Beyond BI - Bill gets it (mostly) right...

CIO Insight and eWeek covered a recent memo from Bill Gates on "Beyond BI". As I often talk about EDM being "Beyond BI" I thought I would make a couple of comments on his memo. "The impact on the workforce...

CIO Insight and some thoughts from yours truly

I was "quoted" in a recent CIO Insight column CIO Insight: Techtalk: Fair Isaac Corp.'s James Taylor on automating the decision process. The article set was around new rules for information management and discussed some of the issues around data...