Two posts caught my eye last night - 5 questions a teenage kid might ask if starting work at your business today by Mike Sarokin on the EDS blog and Vinnie Mirchandarni’s follow up here. As the parent of a college student myself I had to chime in.
It seems to me that not only [...]

Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi posted A SOA+BPM+CDM Ontology with a very nice graphic showing his point of view when it comes to the various aspects of Business Process Management (BPM), SOA and Event-Driven Architecture(EDA). Given his model, which I liked, Decision Services (wiki) are going to be in the Activity layer - not part of Entity Services [...]

One of the most interesting uses of enterprise decision management or EDM is in automating detection of various kinds of “bad” activity. Whether the concern du jour is insider trading, money laundering or just plain old fraud. There are a number of reasons why EDM is such a powerful approach.

Automation is fundamentally the best approach [...]

Next month (February 24th - 26th), I am going to be attending ILOG’s user conference:

I will be introducing and acting as host for a couple of sessions on best practices and giving a lunch and learn on Tuesday. I will be there the whole time, blogging from the BRMS track so look me up if [...]

Mike, over at the requirements defined blog, had this post today: Dr. Changelove (or how I learned to quit worrying and love change). I used a similar title just over a year ago in an article on ebizQ called Business Rules Cafe (for those who don’t remember, Atomic Cafe was another satirical film about the [...]

Customer Interaction Management needs EDM
My post on customer interaction management in response to a nice eGain article
(tags: customer experience interaction edm EDMblog)

My friends over at Big Sky Thinking had a great series of posts on the decision making traps as discussed in a classic Harvard Business Review piece (that you can buy from amazon here: The Hidden Traps in Decision Making (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)). First, here are the links to their posts:

Decision-Making Traps Part 1: [...]

Business Process Management (BPM) - The Silver Bullet of BPM - ebizQ
Nice overview of the value of business rules to BPM from Art of Innovations Software
(tags: business rules brms bpm)

Thanks to my friends at IDC I got to attend an IDC Breakfast on their predictions for 2008. First up was Henry Morris discussing general economic trends. He pointed out that economic indicators are mixed and that IT buyer confidence is low and IT spending very sensitive to GDP. In particular, Japan , NA and [...]

I heard today that Fair Isaac has acquired Dash Optimization. I don’t have many details - though I am hoping to get some - but there is a little information here and a press release here. I think this is an interesting announcement as it’s own optimization engine was one of the few holes in [...]