Enterprise Decision Management - a Weblog

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....

Now introducing Decision Simulation

-- Posted by Carole-Ann Et voila! We are now delivering Decision Simulation to the BRMS world. What an exciting day! Let me give you some insight as to what that means in reality. Up to now, the industry has been...

Will Data Drive Decision Improvement?

-- Posted by Carole-Ann In the past few weeks I have been briefing our internal teams, external customers and industry analysts on our Decision Improvement capabilities. One of the topics that was the most foreign to the BRMS addicts was...

An attempt at demystifying CEP, BPM and BRMS

-- Posted by Carole-Ann The more I read on Complex Event processing (CEP), the more I believe that people are confused or people are trying to confuse end users. It reminds me of the Business Process Management (BPM) / Business...

The evolution of BRMS (part 2)

-- Posted by Carole-Ann Thank you for attending the Evolution of BRMS session at Business Rules Forum. It was great meeting some of you there in person. For those of you that could not make it, I wanted to give...

Business Rules Forum

-- Posted by Carole-Ann After Dallas, travel brought me to Florida where I attended Business Rules Forum. On Tuesday, John Rymer invited me to sit in a vendor panel (the only woman). We discussed topics such as market consolidation and...

October Rules Fest

-- Posted by Carole-Ann The very first occurrence of October Rules Fest happened in Dallas a couple of weeks ago. The objective was to get all kinds of business rules techies in one room and cover all kinds of topics...

More Market Consolidation

-- Posted by Carole-Ann We were all waiting for Oracle to respond to the IBM acquisition of Ilog. Here it is. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/081029/aqw128.html With the Haley acquisition, Oracle joins the BRMS party. Oddly enough, they went for one of the smaller...