All in the family not yet at the table: Building Business Capability (BBC) conference missed the opportunity to bring together Analytics and Rules

While this year’s Business Rules Forum conference broadened its scope to a more comprehensive “business agility” focus (and formally added the Business Process Forum to the mix), it came up short by failing to properly integrate Analytics. Sure, the Predictive...

Shifting from Outputs to Outcomes – Insights from Gartner ITxpo 2010

There was a lot of talk about cloud computing last week at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2010 in Orlando, and we made our own announcement about support for Microsoft Azure, but Gartner also had a clear message to the CIOs...

FICO to Present at Gartner ITxpo 2010

Clarke Patterson, Sr. Director of Product Marketing and Don Griest, Sr. Director of Product Management will be co-presenting at this years’ Gartner ITxpo event in Orlando, Florida in October. Talking about the role of decision improvement in implementing a successful...

The New Face of Uncertainty

-- Posted by Carole-Ann I have been quite busy in the past few weeks briefing industry analysts on the discipline of Decision Modeling and Optimization. We learn decision modeling at school of course but it seems quite under-exploited in the...

Show Season for BRMS and Decision Management

-- Posted by Carole-Ann We are all getting ready for a lot more traveling this end of year. Although I don't like being away from the kids that much, I do like the opportunity to meet customers and other BRMS...

CEP a Predictive Modeling facility? Myth!

-- Posted by Carole-Ann Despite my efforts to simplify the Decision Management picture, especially as it relates to CEP, BRMS and BPM, it seems that the CEP buzzword turned into an omnipotent ruler of the Decision Management world, at least...

Predictive Analytics are hot!

-- Posted by Carole-Ann We just hosted an introductory webinar on Predictive Analytics and I was amazed at the turn out. BRMS practitioners are now getting interested in mass... They are engaging with FICO into education, discussions, etc. Why? I...

October Rules Fest 2009

-- Posted by Carole-Ann My abstract has been accepted at October Rules Fest! I will be presenting as well as my fellow Chief Architect Carlos Serrano Morales. I will be talking about the feedback loop and business performance monitoring. Carlos...

Business Rules or Spaghetti?

-- Posted by Carole-Ann In the early days, we use to think about Business Rules as a great way to extract logic from the code. The vision of several nested if-then-else statements evoked the type of spaghetti code we all...

Live from InterAct - preshow tutorials

-- Posted by Carole-Ann We flew into NY on Monday. After what seemed a long day of internal meetings and presentation rehearsals, we started the show in the afternoon with our tutorial. I was part of the "Operationalizing Analytics" track....