James Taylor: November 2008 Archives

Nice article on production rules

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By James Taylor on November 18, 2008 1:51 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Paul Vincent wrote a nice article on production rules over on the Tibco CEP blog and you should check it out if you were following last week's posts on event processing and decisioning (this one and this one and this... Read More..
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The Future of Business Technology Part 3 - Business Intelligence

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By James Taylor on November 18, 2008 1:45 PM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes
"If we don't get from IT (Information Technology) to BT (Business Technology) we're going to have more disasters like our present mortgage meltdown. Why? Because IT creates impenetrable systems that human beings can't manage. BT is about human beings back... Read More..
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The Future of Business Technology Part 2 - Business Agility

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By James Taylor on November 18, 2008 1:39 PM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes
"If we don't get from IT (Information Technology) to BT (Business Technology) we're going to have more disasters like our present mortgage meltdown. Why? Because IT creates impenetrable systems that human beings can't manage. BT is about human beings back... Read More..
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The Future of Business Technology Part 1 - Business Control

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By James Taylor on November 18, 2008 8:14 AM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes
David Chassells had an interesting article last week called BPM and SOA: Where IT Is Going if Real People Take It There In which he quotes George Colony (founder of Forrester Research):"If we don't get from IT (Information Technology) to... Read More..
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Yet more on event processing

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By James Taylor on November 15, 2008 4:57 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
After my posts on event processing (this one and this one), Opher posted a thoughtful response in which he asked a question about decisions tied to events and decisions not tied to events. What I mean here is that there... Read More..
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Activation Rules and Decision Rules

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By James Taylor on November 14, 2008 12:08 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Marco wrote a nice response to my blog post on rules in CEP where he introduced the idea of activation rules distinguished from decision rules. I can't decide if I like the name "activation rules" - I think event rules... Read More..
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On event rules and decision management

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By James Taylor on November 12, 2008 8:36 AM 2 0 Vote 0 Votes
Marco posted on CEP (Complex Event Processing) and GPS (Global Positioning System) recently and his examples really show the difference, to me, between event rules and decision management. He listed some great examples of rules that belong in your event... Read More..
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In an uncertain economy, think analytics not BI

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By James Taylor on November 11, 2008 8:05 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
Tony Scott, Microsoft Chief Information Officer,was interviewed last week in The Role of Technology in an Uncertain Economy. It was an interesting interview in which he made a couple of comments about business intelligence.Software innovations are providing new ways to... Read More..
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Customer Centricity Strategy #3 - Mass Customization

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By James Taylor on November 6, 2008 8:37 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Wrapping up my responses to John Schmidt's post on Customer Centricity with a discussion of Mass Customization. John describes this as managing trade-offs and building sophisticated models to customize your response to each and every customer based on their value... Read More..
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Customer Centricity Strategy #2 - Process Integration

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By James Taylor on November 5, 2008 8:32 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Continuing my responses to John Schmidt's post on Customer Centricity with a discussion of Process Integration. John describes this as focusing on cross-channel integration using Enterprise Service Bus/SOA technologies to bring data to the point of interaction. Decision management, of... Read More..
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Customer Centricity Strategy #1 - Customer Analytics

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By James Taylor on November 4, 2008 3:26 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
John Schmidt over on the Informatica blog had a great post on Customer Centricity that gave me a theme for three posts this week. He identified three approaches, each one of which I want to map to decision management. First... Read More..
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