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7th October 2008

First Look - SeeWhy

James Taylor Posted by James Taylor

On my recent trip to Europe I got my first chance for a real look at SeeWhy’s product and their announcement today of SeeWhy Tracks Individual Customers’ Digital Mood seemed like a good reason to blog a little about this interesting product. The latest version helps manage customer experience by analyzing page errors, page load [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Activity Monitoring, Customer Experience, Event Processing, Predictive Analytics, Product News | 1 Comment

7th October 2008

The Business Operations Platform

James Taylor Posted by James Taylor

The folks from Cordys presented their view of the new business operations platform. Current systems development is in the context of four key game-changing trends:

Consumerization
Not just technology but can deliver business processes as services using the Internet
Commoditization
Virtualization
Not just of hardware but of processes and teams
Globalization

In this environment, processes are a key competitive advantage - much [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Activity Monitoring, Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Composite Applications, SOA | 2 Comments

30th May 2008

When is a cockpit not a cockpit?

James Taylor Posted by James Taylor

When it’s a dashboard.
I often hear people talk about fighter pilots as a model for the future of business users. For instance, Ade McCormack did in his book on the IT value stack. Indeed this is such a good mental image that many companies use it - either to promote their products or to talk [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Activity Monitoring, Business Agility, Business Intelligence, Decision Management, News | 5 Comments

20th May 2008

Why Events Matter To The Business

James Taylor Posted by James Taylor

Last session of the day (also blogged on paper) was Charles Brett on Why Events Matter To The Business and what this means for application development professionals. I heard Charles talk on a similar subject at the IBM IMPACT event -Live from IMPACT - Business Event Processing.
While many more business and IT people are [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Activity Monitoring, Business Rules, Event Processing, Event-Driven Architecture | 3 Comments

8th April 2008

Live from IMPACT - End to End Process Visibility

James Taylor Posted by James Taylor

Last session for me today, indeed the last session before I go home, is Janelle Hill of Gartner and Kramer Reeves of IBM on improving agility through end-to-end process agility. Janelle went first sharing Gartner’s BPM Scenario for the next five years. She had two initial points:

In 2013, do you know where your work is?
How [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Activity Monitoring, Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules, SOA | 0 Comments

18th March 2008

Live from DAMA - Yin and Yang of Process and Data

James Taylor Posted by James Taylor

Neil and I are attending the DAMA conference this week and I will be blogging from some sessions. First one (after a fairly long set of announcements) is the Tuesday morning keynote, Michael Blechar of Gartner on The Yin & Yang of Process and Data: Which Will Be King of the Next Generation of Applications? [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Activity Monitoring, Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Composite Applications, Decision Management, SOA | 0 Comments

13th February 2008

Some thoughts on Operational BI from TDWI

James Taylor Posted by James Taylor

This morning I watched and listen to two old friends of mine - Wayne Eckerson of TDWI and Dan Graham of Teradata as they gave a webinar on “Approaches to operational BI” (PDF of slides, Webinar Recording). Wayne and Dan did a nice tag team discussing the principles involved and giving some Teradata-specific examples.
Wayne [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Activity Monitoring, Business Intelligence, Business Rules, Composite Applications, Data Mining, Event Processing, Event-Driven Architecture, Predictive Analytics | 1 Comment

23rd October 2007

Live from Business Rules Forum - Turbocharging Business Rules Engines with BI 2.0

James Taylor Posted by James Taylor

Charles Nicholls of SeeWhy was up next, talking about Turbocharging business rules with BI 2.0. Charles wrote a nice little eBook called In Search of Insight (it’s free and you can download it here). I have also blogged about SeeWhy a couple of times - here and here.
Charles defined BI 2.0 as a business [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Activity Monitoring, Business Intelligence, Decision Management, Event Processing | 2 Comments

23rd October 2007

Live from Business Rules Forum - Business Process Management with Business Rules and Business Intelligence

James Taylor Posted by James Taylor

Sandy is my fellow blogger- she blogs at column2 but I met here when we both blogged over on ebizQ (my blog is here). She presented on “Business Process Management with Business Rules and Business Intelligence” and started by pointing out that she has long felt that business rules are essential for business process management [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Activity Monitoring, Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Management, Event Processing, News | 4 Comments

19th October 2007

Complex Event Processing is not about BI

James Taylor Posted by James Taylor

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 [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Activity Monitoring, Decision Management, Event Processing, Event-Driven Architecture | 1 Comment