I am attending the 10th annual Business Rules Forum this week and blogging from sessions as I go. The show really starts tomorrow but John Rymer of Forrester presented a tutorial today - A framework for selecting business rules platforms.
John presented the criteria for the wave report - Forrester’s way of evaluating vendors - rather [...]

John Trigg over on the Apama blog had a post today - The Opportunity for Business Intelligence: Is it Evolution or Revolution? - that made me think about Complex Event Processing(CEP) and Decision Mangement.
Many of the posts I see about CEP, like John’s, are trying to compare CEP with BI and so-called Operational BI in [...]

I saw this post by Keith Harrison-Broninski Some Processes Cost Money - Others Processes Make Money, in which he discusses the fact that companies have already squeezed lots of costs out of their systems and processes. He takes away from this the valid conclusion that not all processes are therefore good targets for high ROI [...]

SAP made a big move today towards enabling decision management. Not only does the SAP platform seem more and more service-capable, I hear today that they have bought Yasu, one of the smaller but capable business rules management systems. It will be interesting to see how SAP plans to use Yasu. Hopefully they won’t just [...]

James was interviewed about Smart (Enough) Systems over on eStrata’s Multichannel Musings blog by Don Obregon - Making Smart (Enough) Decisions

Ian Ayres book, Super Crunchers: Why thinking by numbers is the new way to be smart, is another book extolling the virtues of data-driven decision making. In that regard it is very similar to Competing on Analytics. The book focuses in on the power of data mining and other analytic techniques, especially when combined with [...]

Dave Dixon wrote a nice post a little while ago - Why You Should Care About Shareholder Value - and I have been mulling writing a response. Dave works at Provisdom and has recently started a blog there (despite being a fairly new blog, he has already written some interesting posts so check it out [...]

John McCormick had a nice piece over on CIO insight today - The 10 Most Important Technology Areas for 2008, a Garnter View. Four of these struck me as particularly important when it comes to consider decision management in this context:

Green IT
While the discussion in the article was more about how hardware can help [...]

As many of you know I have now left Fair Isaac. Although I will continue to write some posts for the EDM blog, I will now mostly be blogging here on smartenoughsystems.com. As a result you will see more posts, many more categories and a gradual redesign of the blog to be more suitable. Please [...]