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From the Archives - Value Backlog

By James Taylor on August 12, 2008 8:44 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

I often get asked about calculating the ROI for decision technologies like business rules management systems. One particular aspect of ROI calculation that I think is often overlooked - your "value backlog". Most IT departments have a backlog - the... Read More..

Categories: Business Rules, Decision Technologies, Legacy Modernization

Don't forget to use decision management to improve enterprise applications

By James Taylor on July 3, 2008 8:43 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

This report from Aberdeen is available on ebizQ this week - Aligning IT to Business Processes: How BPM is Complementing ERP - and it covers how IT and business groups can use Business Process Management to complement ERP and other... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Decision Technologies, Legacy Modernization, SOA

Decision Management - another way to get the business to care about SOA

By James Taylor on February 28, 2008 6:01 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

My buddy Joe had a great post this week - Give businesspeople a reason to care about SOA; give them BPM. Like Joe I think business people need something business-oriented to get their attention and that describing the benefits of... Read More..

Categories: Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Technologies, Legacy Modernization, SOA

Legacy modernization, business rules and offshore development

By James Taylor on January 16, 2008 8:32 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

I saw this post on Offshore Architects, Legacy maintenance and modernization and it struck me, again, how valuable business rules and a focus on the automation of decisions can be in legacy modernization. By separating out the high-change, highly volatile... Read More..

Categories: Business Process Outsourcing, Business Rules, Decision Technologies, Legacy Modernization

Another Challenge to Integrating IT and Business

By James Taylor on December 12, 2007 7:19 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

My old friend John Parkinson had a nice post over on CIO Insights today - 5 Challenges to Integrating IT and Business. As usual John makes good points about the challenges of technology in general but four of his five... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Decision Technologies, Legacy Modernization

Boomers are retiring and not just in IT

By James Taylor on August 3, 2007 11:16 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Deborah Perelman wrote this nice little piece over on CIO Insights today - 7 Ways to Protect Legacy Systems When Boomers Retire. The article's focus was on the boomers who work in IT retiring but that's not your only problem. IT... Read More..

Categories: Business Rules, Legacy Modernization

Support your local sheriff

By James Taylor on July 19, 2007 3:25 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Russell Keziere wrote an interesting little article this week - BPM Sherriff Rolls Into Town. He took aim both at old-style monolithic applications and at the potential "wild west" of uncontrolled components. I wanted to focus on a couple of... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Decision Technologies, Legacy Modernization, SOA

Decision Management and Smart (Enough) Systems

By James Taylor on June 5, 2007 11:53 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

<shameless commerce> As some of you know by now I have been working, with Neil Raden, on a new book. As the files shipped to the printers today I thought I would take the opportunity to shamelessly plug the book... Read More..

Categories: Business Activity Monitoring, Business Agility, Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, Business Process Outsourcing, Business Rules, Compliance, Decision Technologies, Event Processing, Innovation, Legacy Modernization, Predictive Analytics, SOA

Business rules and the application knowledge deficit

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..