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Managing Semantics, Vocabulary and Business Rules as Knowledge
A client recently asked me for guidance in establishing a center of excellence concerning business rules within their organization. Their objectives included: Accumulate requisite skills for productive...
View ArticleBusiness Rules Market Maturity
Some recent correspondence with clients and prospective adopters of business rules technology indicates interested mainstream has become increasing concerned and confused by consolidation in the...
View ArticleBusiness Rules Process Management
Some strategy folks in an enterprise architecture group recently asked for help making rules more relevant to their organization. Their concerns ranged from when to embed rules in their middle tier...
View ArticleOracle should teach Siebel CRM about location and money
Not long ago I posted on the need to understand common concepts well. My example then concerned the need to understand time well enough to answer a question like, “How much did IBM’s earnings increase...
View ArticleRuleBurst re-brands as Haley Limited
For those who are interested in my former company, they are still committed to natural language business rules management technology, as shown in their most recent press release. They have also picked...
View ArticleTime for the next generation of knowledge automation
In preparing for my workshop at the Business Rules Forum in Las Vegas on November 5th, I have focused on the following needs in reasoning about processes, about events, and about or over time:...
View ArticleRule and event-driven business process M&A
On the heels of IBM’s acquisition of Lombardi comes Progress Software’s acquisition of Savvion. The salient similarities are that IBM is adding BPM applications to its middleware stack as is Progress,...
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Accenture, Public Policy and Governance at Oracle
Some time ago I spoke with public sector leadership at Oracle and Accenture about applications in Health and Human Services. Oracle was already my client with what was then Haley Authority (now...
View ArticleProgress towards Knowledge-based Enterprises
I couldn’t agree more with these points from Giles Nelson’s article in CIO on BPM and event processing (as highlighted by TIBCO’s Paul Vincent): …we need to take a different view of BPM technology and...
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IBM Ilog JRules for business modeling and rule authoring
If you are considering the use of any of the following business rules management systems (BRMS): IBM Ilog JRules Red Hat JBoss Rules Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor Oracle Policy Automation (i.e., Haley in...
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