Sybase and IBM, with CMP Publications, will host six breakfast briefings in six cities between June 5 - June 14. Neil Raden will be the keynote speaker on the topic, “Brains Over Brawn: Six Steps to Smarter Business Intelligence.” Neil will propose a variety of techniques, including EDM. For more information, or to register for [...]

James and Neil are speaking at The Business Rules Forum 2007. The forum is the premier event for business rules and is running October 21-25.
Neil is giving a tutorial “Business Rules - Driving the Convergence of Operational and Analytical Business Intelligence“, James and Neil are presenting together on “Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems“, [...]

James is speaking at the European Business Rules Conference in Dusseldorf, Germany. The conference runs June 18-20 and James is speaking on “Building Smarter Systems with Decision Services” at 4:30pm on June 19th.

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Mark Greene, the CEO of Fair Isaac, announced the Shortcut “Why you need Smart Enough Systems” in his keynote at InterACT 07.

“The data warehouse and business intelligence industry has been struggling for two decades to figure out how to deliver compelling business value. What we see is a return to our roots of figuring out how to help organizations leverage data and analytics to make better decisions. James and Neil outline what companies need to do [...]

Taylor and Raden’s central manifesto highlights that it’s critical to embody more intelligence in today’s business decision-making and have consistent, automated decisioning built into business processes in order to remain agile and competitive in today’s fast-moving market. They take you through the core concepts of enterprise decision management (EDM), dive into the underlying technologies, then [...]

“Very thought provoking! After spending 10 years in the business rules space, Smart (Enough) Systems takes EDM to a new level for me.  This book is a blue print to creating systems that are in tune with the customer and their needs.  Real time decisions that are consistent, accurate and specific to the situation would [...]

“This book provides an excellent introduction to the key issues addressed by the technology, the related core concepts and it also provides guidance for its implementation including readiness assessments for your business units and technology departments.”
David Luce Information Technology Architect

“This is a good survey book of the subject of smart systems and many related fields. If you want to understand what they are and why you should care (and you should), read this book.”
Charlie Lewis, Air Products and Chemicals, Global IT Chief Architect and Innovation Champion, Instructor Pennsylvania State University

“Even though Business Rules has around as a discipline and a methodology for many years, it is a field that is poorly understood by management. Because Business Rules is dominated by technologists and a confusing mix of data modeling and artificial intelligence, managers and executives struggle with the benefits and necessity. “Smart (Enough) Systems” overcomes [...]