I was fortunate enough to get a preview of some new research from John Rymer of Forrester this week - Trends: Business Rules Platforms 2008. As usual John has written an interesting piece and it is well worth reading and buying. Setting the need for more dynamic applications and the need to automate more complex [...]

Doug Henschen just posted Intelligent Enterprise Top-20 Stories of 2007 and Neil’s article Business Intelligence 2.0: Simpler, More Accessible, Inevitable came in at number 3! The best I could do was get mentioned (along with Neil, again) in #16 The Rule Maturity Model: Five Steps to an Agile Enterprise. Still, not bad…

Mike Kavitz asked this question - Why are you still generating reports? - on his blog today and it made me think. Why ARE you still generating reports? Not just in the way Mike means the question (why is IT generating reports instead of empowering users with information). I mean this in a broader way [...]

Venkat posted a comment to my post on web 2.0, social media and EDM in which he said that he “found this piece to be a little too quick/glib compared to your other pieces”. As my friends in Texas would say, “them are fightin words” so I thought a response was called for.
social media are [...]

Really Pushing The Envelope
Jeff Zabin takes aim at the lack of green thinking displayed by marketers who blanket consumers instead of targeting them precisely
(tags: precision marketing zabin green)

Keep It Simple » Blog Archive » We Couldn’t Get the Answers
A BI version of the bubble song - very funny
(tags: BI 2.0)

Data Mining and Predictive Analytics: Three [...]

Just heard that Symbol-Plus Publishing of St. Petersburg will be translating Smart (Enough) Systems into Russian. Interesting…

Thomas Erl is working on a new book of SOA patterns and is looking for suggestions and input. You can read about the project on www.soapatterns.com. In particular, those of you interested in decision management might want to provide comments on the Rules Centralization pattern using the form here. If you have additional pattern suggestions, [...]

Mike replied to my post about his question on enterprise metadata. He, like me, prefers David Marco’s definition of metadata as “all physical data and knowledge from inside and outside an organization, including information about the physical data, technical and business processes, rules and constraints of the data, and structures of the data used by [...]

Scott Ambler reviewed the book on Dr Dobbs’ Journal today - Dr. Dobb’s Agile Newsletter 12/07.

ILOG BRMS Blogs » Production Rule Representation Standard Reaches Beta 1
Quick summary of the value of the production rule representation standard
(tags: PRR OMG production rule representation)

Standardizing Decision-based Approaches
My article on how we might standardize decision based approaches in the OMG IT standards stack
(tags: omg prr bpmn bpdm decision management edmblog)