Tim Bass wrote a really thoughtful piece last week on analytics in CEP that anyone interested in the ongoing debate about rules, event processing and analytics should read. He makes great points about the limitation of rules-based decisioning (that people must learn and then enter the new rules) and about the power of more adaptive and learning systems in rapidly changing environments. Business rules are a great technology for building agility into a system but they reduce the impedance between people knowing and systems changing. Sometimes that's not what matters, as in Tim's example, and other approaches should be used instead or combined.










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