Enterprise Decision Management - a Weblog

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 evolution...

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.htmlWith the Haley acquisition, Oracle joins the BRMS party. Oddly enough, they went for one of the smaller players. As...

The evolution of BRMS (part 1)

-- Posted by Carole-Ann Thank you for joining the Evolution of BRMS webinar yesterday. It looks like many of you have been able to make it. Quite a turn out! For those of you that could not make it, I...

The end of BRMS

-- Posted by Carole-Ann I remember the days when BRE (business rules engine) was a hot topic. The analysts tracked the BRE market, customers looked for engine features, vendors were competing against spaghetti code. Back then we were a handful...

Market Consolidation

-- Posted by Carole-Ann IBM has announced their intention to buy ILOG. This is quite interesting for the BRMS market. Let me make a couple of comments on how this may change the dynamics. After SAP acquired YASU last year,...

Can we trust Business Users?

-- Posted by Carole-Ann The key premise of business rules management has been historically to empower business users. Since they own the business, they should be able to maintain the way they want to do business without being subject to...

BEA on Event Driven Architecture Sounds a lot like EDM

Yesterday BEA Systems released a white paper summarizing their findings of a customer study regarding Business Process Management (BPM). The paper is titled “The State of the BPM Market – Business and IT: Solving Process Problems Together.” BEA also culled through numerous analyst and other industry expert insights to narrow in on the key trends driving adoption of BPM related technologies. There were two especially notable items in the report that show an Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) approach to operational decision automation, connection and improvement is becoming an increasingly mainstream concept – even if the term EDM isn’t the label.