Enterprise Decision Management - a Weblog

InterACT 2008 and Social Media

Posed by guest blogger, James Taylor) Well it's almost time for InterACT - I will be arriving on Sunday and will blog furiously for three or so days. I will post summaries here on the edmblog and blog about the...

Happy Holidays, see you in 2008

(Posted by guest blogger, James Taylor) Well, 2007 comes to an end and this is my last post of the year. This year we had more than 80,000 visits, 144,000 page views.I thought I would highlight some of my (and...

1,000 readers

(Posted by guest blogger, James Taylor) One of the most fun things writing this blog over the last 2+ years has been watching the growing number of subscribers. Today I see we are over 1,000 for the first time. A...

At Business Rules Forum this week

(Posted by guest blogger, James Taylor) This week I am attending the 10th annual Business Rules Forum and blogging about it over on my blog. Check out www.smartenoughsystems.com/wp for details. I will post a summary when I get back. Don't...

Feed and URL updates

(Post by Guest Author, James Taylor) This week marks something of a transition for me and for the blog. I am going to become a guest author here on the Fair Isaac EDM blog - look for me to blog...

1001 Posts!

I just check and between this blog and my other one (over on ebizQ) there are now 1001 posts. Wow. Of course I did not write them all but many of them...

Travelling in Europe

I am traveling in Europe this week so my posts may be intermittent. Barb/Ian/Gib may blog and I will try to blog from the events I am attending - the European Business Rules Conference and an OMG meeting. If you...

Welcome Gib Bassett as a guest author

Another author joins the team this week. Gib Bassett, a colleague here at Fair Isaac, is joining us. His first post is based on some personal experience and we look forward to regular and interesting posts. Welcome.

An EDM blogroll

Well I finally got myself organized and cleaned up my blogroll so I can share it. You can find it, organized by category, on the blogroll page. I also added a link to the page in the right sidebar. Please...

Adaptive Control

I realized the other day that, although I often talk about "Adaptive Control", I have not written much about it. As it is a key concept for enterprise decision management (EDM) I decided to write some more about it. Today...

A growing EDM community

As the first quarter just ended I thought I would update everyone with some stats about the EDM community here on the blog. I posted a couple of graphs to show how it's going. The top one is from Google...

Want an EDM blidget?

What's a blidget I hear you ask? Well, our friends at Typepad (who host the EDM blog) have partnered with Widgetbox to make it easy to package up a blog as a widget - a blidget You can get the...

Good first month in 2007

Just a quick update on the blog - January was a record month for us. We had; 10,143 page views (first time over 10,000) 5,610 visitors (first time over 5,000) 384 subscribers by the end of the month (a record)...

Categories...

I got a request today to create a specific feed for a specific category. If you could like to request a category feed or feeds, let me know here.

New Blog features

As the week comes to an end a few new features for you to enjoy: The EDM Library, and all my book reviews, now has its own page so it no longer loads every time you load a page There...

Will James Post (Another) Blog Entry Today?

I have decided to apply predictive analytics to see if James is going to post a blog entry today. (James tell me his first post this morning "wasn't much of a post", so we'll assume for our purposes that one...

The EDM Blog in 2006

So let's review the EDM Blog in 2006 According to Technorati we ended with a rank of 73,372 with 500 links from 46 blogs 383 Posts or more than one a day! 26 of these were by Ian Turvill, 5...

New Blog design

Well I hope you like the new blog design. If you do, or don't, please let me know!

It's So Juicy!!!

Posted by Guest Blogger, and a mere apprentice serving at the knee of the master, Ian Turvill. Great news from Virginia today! And no, I'm not betraying my political leanings. Instead, I am simply revealing that Juice Analytics, an analytics...

Blog survey results

Thanks to everyone who responded to the blog survey - got a few interesting results. Most of the responders use the RSS feed, followed by email and "couple of times a week" No big surprise as those who are regulars...

Last chance for the survey

Last day to respond to my survey on likes/dislikes on the blog - http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB225MZ6RJRFG

Tell me what you like about the blog (please)

I set up a Zoomerang Survey and I would REALLY appreciate if you would take it and tell me what you think of the blog. I am engaged in some redesign of the blog and would love to know what...

EDM - Enterprise DECISION Management

In case any of you saw this Aite group report, EDM does not stand for Enterprise Data Management but Enterprise Decision Management. I don't know what they think they are doing, trying to hijack the acronym like this! Managing Risk...

New Blog URL

Well more change. We have moved the blog to www.edmblog.com and so would greatly appreciate y'all changing your links. The feed should have auto-corrected and the old links should work so let me know if either of these things is...

Speaking gigs in September and October

Well I am going to be speaking a few times in September and October. Teradata Partners Conference on September 18th 2006 at 1:30pm on "An Enterprise Decision Management strategy for improved customer experience" Panel at the Washington DC Brainstorm Business...

New EDM FAQs published

I have posted a set of FAQs on Enterprise Decision Management.Here's the list: What IS Enterprise Decision Management or EDM? What can EDM do for my business? Why is EDM important now? What kinds of problem can EDM solve? Who...

New Predictive Analytics FAQ posted

I have posted a set of FAQs on predictive analytics. I tried to prevent them clogging the feeds but may or may not have succeeded. Anyway, here's the list: What is Predictive Analytics What are the Signs that My Business...

Welcome DM Review readers

Just a short post to welcome DM Review readers. You can subscribe to this blog here or using the widgets in the left column. There is also an email subscription widget for those of you not using RSS. The category...

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...

Technorati update

Working through some Technorati stuff and need to put this Technorati Profile link into a post. Sorry about that....

Welcome Ian Turvill as a guest author

Well it had to happen - another author joins the team. Ian Turvill, a colleague here at Fair Isaac, is an expert on applying EDM to solving marketing problems, among other things. He is also a regular collaborator of mine...

More and more blogging...

Well it had to happen - a second blog! I am now blogging on ebizq - Decision Management Blog. Please go visit and enjoy.

Another Guest Author - Dr Rahul Asthana

Please welcome a colleague with an analytic bent, Rahul Asthana, who will be helping Barb and I add some predictive analytic flavor to the blog.

Welcome Barb von Halle as a guest author!

Please welcome Barb von Halle as my first guest author. Barb is a well known expert on business rules and will be adding her thoughts, questions and insights to the blog as she has time. With the rapid growth in...

Long time, no post

Sorry for the lack of posting - been at Fair Isaac's big European show, InterACT Budapest. Anyway, back now and starting to post some of the great stories from the show. One of them was the results a major UK...