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Decision Services and designing for change

By James Taylor on April 20, 2009 8:54 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Todd Biske wrote an interesting piece titled Thoughts on designing for change that made me think about one of the real basics of decision management and reminded me of some comments Phil Wainewright made years ago about what happens to... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Decision Management, SOA

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

SOA and automated decision making

By James Taylor on January 23, 2009 10:04 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Joe McKendrick posted on the role of SOA in automated decision making over on the SOA in action blog. In it he saysBecause SOA involves the assembling of applications or interfaces from components or services with different properties, it paves... Read More..

Categories: Business Rules, Decision Management, SOA

Using business rules to close the SOA knowledge gap

By James Taylor on January 6, 2009 7:00 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Dan Rosanova wrote a piece on The SOA Knowledge Gap that made me think (again) about the value of business rules as a way to manage requirements. Dan points out that "A unique SOA challenge is its need to bring... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, SOA

Decision Services as agile, intelligent agents

By James Taylor on December 16, 2008 11:31 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Two articles I saw recently (Is SOA Enabling Intelligent Agents? and Three Keys to Enabling Agile Business Services) made me think about decision services in the context of agility and of so-called "intelligent agents". Clearly SOA, web 2.0 and network-centric... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Decision Management, SOA

The Future of Business Technology Part 2 - Business Agility

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..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Management, SOA

The Future of Business Technology Part 1 - Business Control

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..

Categories: Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Management, SOA

Agility can emerge from SOA and decision management helps

By James Taylor on October 28, 2008 7:00 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Jason Bloomberg wrote a great piece on Business Agility as an Emergent Property of SOA last week. This was well written and well thought out and it's definitely worth a read. Now I have made the case that decision management... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Decision Management, SOA

Events, Services and Decisions

By James Taylor on October 7, 2008 4:15 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Jack van Hoof had another nice little post on EDA versus CEP (and SOA). I thought it was particularly worth noting that an architectural approach - Service-Oriented or Event-Driven - is not the same as the use of a particular... Read More..

Categories: Decision Management, Event Processing, SOA

Business rules, decisions and events

By James Taylor on August 27, 2008 5:58 PM 3 Vote 0 Votes

It is not uncommon to hear some disagreements among advocates of Business Rules, Complex Event Processing or CEP, Business Process Management as to exactly what the overlap between these products might be. Tim Bass fired the latest broadside with CEP... Read More..

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

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