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 James is one the leading experts in enterprise decision management, a published author and a principal of Smart (enough) Systems LLC. His blog discusses the use of decision management technologies like predictive analytics and business rules to deliver agility, improve business processes and bring intelligent automation to SOA.

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February 16, 2007
What's the right model for rules in SOA?

An piece by David Marco in DM Review this month caught my eye - Metadata Management & Enterprise Architecture: SOAs and Metadata Management, Part 2. Here's a graphic he uses, reproduced from DM Review:

Marco_fig1

Now I have to take issue with this. Here's what I would propose instead:

Marco_Edited

The difference is that business rules both control data and make decisions and decisions support (and are supported by) processes. Decisions are a first class object and deserve to be treated as such. Hopefully David will post a comment and respond.

BTW I posted about three other DM Review articles today. Check out The Opportunity for Analytics, Business Event Monitoring and Metadata and Business Rules

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