December 2006 Archives

Happy Holidays

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By James Taylor on December 21, 2006 12:41 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Well it's Christmas time and I am going to take a break from the blog for a week or so. See you after the new year. Happy Holidays... Read More..
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IBM, SOA, Second Life and blogging

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By James Taylor on December 18, 2006 11:05 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Recent posts, such as this one by KC Jones on TechWeb talk about a peak in blogging, implying that blogging is going to peak and then die down. Now it is hardly surprising that the blog market would grow more... Read More..
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5 Business Reasons to Service-Orient and 3 to decision-automate

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By James Taylor on December 15, 2006 11:36 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I got a note from the folks at ZapThink about an article in SAP Netweaver magazine called "5 Business Reasons to Service-Orient". The 5 reasons given are "reduced integration costs, automated business-to-business interaction, easier regulatory compliance, user empowerment, and the... Read More..
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Making the case for rules in compliance

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By James Taylor on December 14, 2006 11:21 AM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes
I saw an interesting article by Jim Coleman of Appian in Business Integration Journal today - the article is not online yet but here's a link to the magazine - called "Making the Case for Process-Based, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance". Jim outlines... Read More..
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If SOA is Lego then decision services are Mindstorms

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By James Taylor on December 12, 2006 3:31 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
I saw this article in ZapThink's ZapFlash called "The Lego Model of SOA". It's a great read for anyone looking for a nice metaphor to describe the benefits of SOA to a non-technical person. It made me think, though, about... Read More..
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Delivering point of sale revenue with decision automation

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By James Taylor on December 8, 2006 2:36 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
One of the tactical gains often seen when decisions are automated is revenue gain at point of sale not from the targeting but from the simple fact of pushing decisions to the point of contact. This increased revenue comes because... Read More..
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Another opinion on intelligent business processes

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By James Taylor on December 5, 2006 10:18 PM 1 1 Vote 0 Votes
I just saw Charles Nicholls' article "Building Intelligent Business Processes into SOA". This was very timely as not only have I recently blogged about SeeWhy and BI 2.0 before I also saw Charles last week (we used to work together).... Read More..
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Better Business Performance with Analytics

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By James Taylor on December 4, 2006 1:33 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I saw this interesting article on analytics in BI Review today - Analytics and Business Performance. It's a nice overview of how a fairly sophisticated company does predictive analytics. A couple of thoughts If you have no idea what predictive... Read More..
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Are you ready for decision management? Part 5

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By James Taylor on December 1, 2006 9:02 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
How do you tell if your organization is ready for decision management? If not, what can you do to start laying the groundwork? Fifth, Focus on operational decisions One of the key facets of decision management is its focus on... Read More..
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A blog about the use of decision management technologies like predictive analytics and business rules to deliver agility, improve business processes and bring intelligent automation to SOA.

James Taylor

James Taylor blogs on decision management for ebizQ, and is an independent consultant on decision management, predictive analytics, business rules, and related topics. He works with clients to identify and bring to market advanced decision management solutions. He is widely considered a leading expert and visionary in enterprise decision management, and has published a book on the topic: Smart (Enough) Systems. For more information please contact him at james@jtonedm.com.



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