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Don't forget the premier rules/decisioning event of 2009!

By James Taylor on June 11, 2009 4:50 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

The International Business Rules Forum™ is the premier Conference dedicated to Business Rules, where the future of Business Rules, Decisioning, Compliance & Enterprise Design is taking shape! This year's event covers Business Rules, Decision Management, Business Process, Governance and Compliance.... Read More..

Categories: Business Process Management, Business Agility, Compliance, Business Rules, Decision Management, Event Processing, Predictive Analytics

Here's how to prevent mistakes in analytic projects with decision management

By James Taylor on June 4, 2009 5:04 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Robert Grossman had a nice post - Five Common Mistakes in Analytic Projects that made me think about the role of decision management in putting predictive analytics to work. Of Robert's 5 mistakes, 3 are directly addressed by decision management:There... Read More..

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Beyond Predictive BI

By James Taylor on May 14, 2009 8:43 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

David Linthicum's recent blog post Approaching Predictive BI made me want to reiterate some of my thinking around BI (on which I have a whole category) on my blog. I often talk about going "beyond BI" with decision management.... Read More..

Categories: Business Intelligence, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics

New Resources on Predictive Analytics

By James Taylor on April 16, 2009 3:41 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

I just gave a webinar with the folks over at Better Management.com on Putting Predictive Analytics to Work. If you did not hear it, check it out - the recording is available here. I also have a white paper by... Read More..

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Here's a couple of skills developers will need in the years ahead

By James Taylor on April 8, 2009 10:00 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

I saw this list of 10 skills developers will need in the next five years - developers not programmers you notice - and I was struck by several things.First and foremost it still assumed that application developers would be programming... Read More..

Categories: Business Rules, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics

Webinar on putting analytics to work with decision management

By James Taylor on March 28, 2009 4:33 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

I am presenting on putting predictive analytics to work with decision management on April 3rd at 10:30am PDT. As the invitation says "Predictive analytics, applied to operational decision making, is the next wave of business innovation. Organizations that are currently... Read More..

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Do the reports you generate prompt action?

By James Taylor on March 26, 2009 8:29 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

A post over on the Walker Information Blog - Reports that prompt action made me think about the number of useless reports I see. Their focus was on voice of the customer or other customer information reports but it made... Read More..

Categories: Business Intelligence, Business Rules, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics

When the customer knocks you need decision management not operational BI

By James Taylor on March 10, 2009 11:09 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

A friend passed on an article titled "When the customer knocks" in which Scott Arnett of Pitney Bowes discussed the power of data to improve customer interactions. Nothing there to cause me to blog you would think. Except that Scott,... Read More..

Categories: Business Intelligence, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics

19th Century Decision Management

By James Taylor on March 3, 2009 4:48 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

John Reynolds over on the Thoughtful Programmer had a great post a little while back - 19th Century BPMS. In it he saidI sometime find it useful to describe a BPMS in terms of things and people that you probably... Read More..

Categories: Business Rules, Compliance, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics, SOA

Decision management and automated recommendations

By James Taylor on February 10, 2009 9:57 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

This post caught my eye last week - ecommerceinsights.com Blog » Automated recommendations: ubiquitous in 2009?Predictive merchandising becomes ubiquitous, and the crowd begins to separate. "Predictive merchandising" is also referred to as "automated merchandising" or "personalized product recommendations". Whatever term... Read More..

Categories: Decision Management, Predictive Analytics

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Don't forget the premier rules/decisioning event of 2009!

Here's how to prevent mistakes in analytic projects with decision management

Beyond Predictive BI

New Resources on Predictive Analytics

Here's a couple of skills developers will need in the years ahead

Webinar on putting analytics to work with decision management

Do the reports you generate prompt action?

When the customer knocks you need decision management not operational BI

19th Century Decision Management

Decision management and automated recommendations

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