April 2007 Archives

Event-driven and decision-centric

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By James Taylor on April 26, 2007 2:51 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Enabling the Event-Driven Enterprise by Mike Lough is an interesting take on the need to better exploit events, something often tied to decision-making. Mike makes some good points in this article and a couple in particular made me want to reply... Read More..
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Agile decisioning

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By James Taylor on April 24, 2007 10:38 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Brad Appleton recently wrote a piece on Agile Development Distilled that had a couple of interesting lists - he was designing a single Powerpoint slide to explain agile to someone. I thought both his lists were great and thought I... Read More..
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Predictive BPM?

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By James Taylor on April 16, 2007 2:54 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Roeland Loggen posted a comment on my post "Predictive Analytics go deeper" about predictive BPM. It seems to me that there is a difference between predicting process execution and predicting effectiveness of decisions so as to control process execution. While... Read More..
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Don't soft-code, use business rules

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By James Taylor on April 11, 2007 1:24 PM 18 0 Vote 0 Votes
I got a link to this article "Soft Coding" from Reddit today. I have to say that I thought this was an unusually poor article. It boiled down to "I can think of stupid ways to do this therefore that... Read More..
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Predictive Analytics go deeper

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By James Taylor on April 9, 2007 4:21 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
I saw this interesting article today (on ebizQ) by John Senor - Business Intelligence Goes Deep. John starts off making some good points. He says that you need "enhanced business intelligence at the deepest level - embedded within essential business... Read More..
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Business Rules and Business Intelligence.

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By James Taylor on April 6, 2007 12:46 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Robert Blasum wrote an article "Business Rules and Business Intelligence" in April issue of DM Review (link added 4/13). It is a good summary of why and how business rules can be useful in Business Intelligence and Performance Management. Robert... Read More..
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If houses were like software (humor)

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By James Taylor on April 5, 2007 10:45 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I saw this (no doubt old) humor today - If Architects Had to Work Like Programmers and it's wonderful. It made me think, though. What if your house was built the way your software often is? What if home owners... Read More..
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Nice article on the state of BI

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By James Taylor on April 3, 2007 5:19 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Great article by Dave Stodder of Ventana Research today - The State of Business Intelligence. Nice overview of dashboards, rules, BAM and more and how it is all coming together. I think there is more to say around predictive analytics... Read More..
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Business rules and the application knowledge deficit

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By James Taylor on April 2, 2007 11:51 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Phil Murphy of Forrester recently published The Application Knowledge Deficit (subscription required). I won't reproduce his numbers here - it's not publicly available to non-subscribers - I would make two points: Almost no-one relied on reading the source code to... Read More..
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