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James Taylor

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Jean-Jacques Dubray made an interesting comment on last week's post - What collection of approaches will transform YOUR business?. He suggested adding Master Data Management or MDM and he has a good point. Without MDM the reusability of decision services may be severely compromised - an MDM approach allows the services to have a single point of referential data access - while the quality and consistency of data increases the quality of rules.

I think there are some interesting analogies too in the way people think when adopting MDM and business rules. Both require a more declarative "enterprise" way of thinking about a problem rather than a procedural one. Both create enterprise metadata - that is information about the structure/behavior of the organization. Both require a change in programming paradigm with individual applications using existing, managed information rather than creating it.

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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.

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