Enterprise Decision Management - a Weblog

Adaptive Business Applications with EDM

(Posed by guest blogger, James Taylor) I have been thinking about adaptive applications recently and about what makes an application adaptive (see my twitter stream for instance). This seems like an important topic as people throw "business agility" and "agile...

EDM Helps Minimize Trade Offs Between Application Maintenance and Strategic Initiatives – So Says Forrester Research

While Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) is not called out specifically in Forrester Research’s January 28 report, “The State Of Enterprise Software Adoption: 2007 To 2008,” it describes issues top of mind among technology executives addressable with EDM technologies, such as Business Rules Management Systems (BRMSs). The report is based on results of a survey of 1,017 IT decision-makers in North American- and European-based enterprises.

The last decomposition of the application

One of the reasons for a focus on decisions and decision services is to complete the decomposition of the old, monolithic application (thanks Mark). Think about it. If you embed decisions - business logic - in your applications, you hide...

Remember: Don’t Crush ‘Em, Restore ‘Em

The title of this posting is taken from a saying repeated at the conclusion of a cable television show about classic cars, and aptly summarizes the focus of this newsbit I saw today on DM Review’s website: “Major Software AG Customer Survey Reveals New Priorities for Legacy Systems”. Software AG, an infrastructure software provider, surveyed 180 of its clients to understand their views on legacy systems. The results cited in the article parallel the value of Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) to legacy systems; all good news for Software AG and BRMS vendors, maybe less good news for application vendors trying to sell their latest wares.

Lean application development and maintenance - some thoughts

I recently came across this McKinsey paper - Applying lean to application development and maintenance (subscription required). The abstract has a few key bullets: Lean techniques, originally developed to reduce waste in manufacturing, are boosting performance in more and more...

"Blogging Live" from InterACT Lisbon: "How EDM Really Works"

"How EDM Really Works" at InterACT introduces the concepts of decision automation and predictive analytics.

Legacy modernization, a comment

I saw this article over on IT-Analysis on converting legacy applications by Tel Hudson of Bloor. I tried to post it as a comment but their CAPTCHA system is broken so I kept getting errors. Hopefully they will fix it!...

Enterprise Decision Management and important IT trends

I saw this article in Baseline - The 30 Most Important IT Trends for 2007 - and it struck me how many of them pointed out the need for an enterprise decision management approach. Highlights included: Needing to focus on...

Live from Gartner Symposium ITxpo - Java and .NET – You Can’t Pick a Favorite Child

I am attending Gartner Symposium and ITxpo this week and blogging as I go. Mark Driver presented on Java and .NET – You Can’t Pick a Favorite Child Technology and application development platforms matter as need to slash time to...

Live from Gartner Symposium ITxpo - thoughts on the keynote (second hand)

I am attending Gartner Symposium and ITxpo this week and blogging as I go. This post is based on a couple of comments made to me by the CNBC Europe team about the keynote. Firstly Gartner claim that 80% of...

Live from Gartner Symposium ITxpo - AD Overview: Assembling, Buying and Constructing—The ABCs of Delivering Software Solutions

I am attending Gartner Symposium and ITxpo this week and blogging as I go. Dale Vecchio and Matt Hotle presented an AD Overview: Assembling, Buying and Constructing—The ABCs of Delivering Software Solutions Often the key question customers ask is "how...

Rules Engine article on the Reg Developer

Interesting first piece on business rules over at the Reg Developer. There's some good introductory facts in it - you can check out my FAQ for some more. If like one of the commenters you are not convinced,check out this...

Managing decisions as a corporate asset

One of the key values behind an Enterprise Decision Management approach is that of managing decisions as a corporate asset. When customers interact with you they consider every decision you take to be a corporate one - that is, a...

Top posts on business rules

I was doing some analysis the other day and identified your favorite posts and I thought it would be fun to show the list with some comments. The first list is of ones related to business rules. Here goes: Agile...

The paperless office and decisioning

This article in ComputerWorld - Paper cuts: Renewed efforts in the move toward the paperless office - made me think about how companies are using decisioning to replace paper pushing. Decision automation is key when you need to re-engineer the...

Live from InterACT: HP Open Bank and EDM

Watching HP present yesterday on their Open Bank framework and how decisioning and EDM can be plugged into it. Essentially the Open Bank framework is designed to help banks increase their share of wallet at lower cost while remaining compliant...

Live from InterACT: Decisions On Call: How the Decision Service Provider (DSP) Model Works

Posted by Guest Blogger, Ian Turvill From Fair Isaac's InterACT Conference, San Francisco, CA Well, as promised, I'm plugging the gap on a description of the "Decision Services Provider" model. James just delivered a presentation on this topic at InterACT,...

Live from Brainstorm: Business Rules and Business Process - Perfect together or perfect apart?

I sat on a panel today about business rules and business process and whether they should be separate or combined. I already have a couple of posts on this topic - here and here - so regular readers (both of...

Rules, SOA, banks and legacy modernization

Interesting little article about SOA and its role in helping banks move their legacy applications forward in ebizq. I have worked with some of the HP folks in their Open Bank group as it is really clear to me that...

Still more on maintenance!

Shining a Light on Maintenance by Mary Pratt in Computerworld highlighted some of the problems in IT maintenance, in particular costs and management of budgets. There was a lot of good material in the article including this great quote: He...

Build or Buy or Both?

Saw this article To build or to buy IT applications? by Polly Traylor in InfoWorld. The article lays out some of the decision points for those trying to decide between building and buying application software. Reading this it seemed to...

CIO Insight and EDM

Saw this interesting piece in CIO Insight - Top 30 Trends - and a number of them caught my eye. Trend 2: Necessity Is the Mother of Velocity talks about teal-time decisions and change and improved agility for business processes....

Enhancing Legacy Systems with business rules

Interesting piece in Insurance and Technology this week - Enhancing your legacy. Lots of good discussion about the challenges and options with legacy and then this fascinating question: How can insurers guarantee that new systems are designed for the future?...

Using business rules to renovate old applications

In this article - Tough Decisions for Old Apps by Stephen Swoyer - there's a great summary of the problems of integrating legacy applications into an SOA: Web enabling or exposing mainframe applications to new and different constituencies—including non-mainframe applications—is...

Ameritrade COO Talks About Business-Technology Mix - Computerworld

Business rules management systems are a way to get even old legacy systems to 70% new, 30% maintenance.

Giving your mainframe a new "brain"

Legacy modernization is a hot topic and business rules technology allows you to modernize just the high maintenance bit of your system and so save dollars.