Predigy is a technology originally developed by Intelligent Results (founded in 2001) that was acquired by First Data in 2007. It was originally focused on the military (particularly on the analysis of unstructured data) but has subsequently moved into commercial applications. Predigy is now a decisioning platform with some applications in banking, collections, telecommunications [...]

Savvion today announced it has released a Business Rules Management System. Now this may suprise you - after all Savvion is a Business Process Management vendor - but I think it is a sign of the growing recognition that decision management is important to business process management. Before this announcement Savvion was using Yasu’s product [...]

David Kim, MD of the Americas for Innovations Software Technology briefed me recently on the Bosch acquisition of the company. Innovations Software Technology was founded in 1997 and had grown to about 120 employees by September when it was acquired by the Bosch group.
Bosch is a $63B company (61% automotive, 13 %industrial, 26% consumer [...]

Jim Sinur wrote “Rules Initiated the Real Estate Meltdown”
Of course he is 100% correct, but there are antecedent conditions that cause the behaviors he mentions. When I was a young lad working as a P/C actuary at AIG in New York, we bought a small mortgage insurance company (can’t remember the name) to compete with [...]

The folks at Fair Isaac pointed me to a new community they have just released - dmtools.fairisaac.com. I have not had much of a chance to check it out but it looks useful and I look forward to participating. One thing is new - you can download trial versions of Blaze Advisor. Have fun…

Thanks to my friend Jan I will be giving a seminar at SAI - the Belgian ‘Study Center for Information Processing’ - in the evening of October 10th. You can find details here - I am speaking on ‘Decision Services’: A pattern for business rules in Service Oriented Systems and Architectures.

As I said before I am speaking at the SOA Symposium in Amsterdam in October - “Decision Services: A Pattern for Smarter Service-Oriented Systems“. I think the conference will be great and I hope to meet some readers there but, if you are local, I have an even better offer. I can bring a couple [...]

Complex Event Processing (CEP) Blog » CEP vs Decision Management
(tags: CEP complex event process decisin management)

There is a great conference coming up October 26-30 - not only are Neil and I Co-Chairs but readers of the blog can get a discount. We are presenting twice - A Pre-Conference Tutorial Succeeding as a Decision-Centric Organization and a Keynote Competing on Decisions. Because of this you can get [...]

I am going to be in Europe in October and I am looking to productively fill a couple of days in my schedule. I am available Friday the 3rd, Monday the 6th and possibly Wednesday the 8th. If you are based in the London - Paris - Brussels - Munich - Frankfurt area and are [...]