Remember the 1st Enterprise Decision Management Summit and the 11th International Business Rules Forum ? October 26-30, 2008 at the Buena Vista Palace, Orlando FL. Don’t forget that as a reader of this blog we are able to offer you a special, one-time offer as an honorary member of the Friends and Family of the [...]

1st Enterprise Decision Management Summit and the 11th International Business Rules Forum
October 26-30, 2008 at the Buena Vista Palace, Orlando FL.
I am pleased to announce that we have published the agenda for the Enterprise Decision Management Summit and Business Rules Forum. This is the first time we have run the EDM Summit and we have [...]

I am involved in two great decision management conferences this year and I wanted to quickly post about them to encourage you to attend - apologies to readers of my other blogs who may see this information more than once.
First up is InterACT, Fair Isaac’s show on decision management and analytics, April 27-30. I will [...]

How are you integrating business rules and analytics?
How are you adding intelligence to your business processes?
How are you putting analytics to work in your operational systems?
How, in other words, are you using Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) to innovate your business? Your colleagues and peers want to know.

We invite you to present [...]

Ron Ross recently gave his keynote from the Business Rules Forum as a webinar. You can access the recording (free registration required) here. It’s a great overview and well worth your time.

Now I am back from the forum I thought I would blog a quick summary of the posts I found on various blogs. These include mine, Sandy Kemsley’s Column2, David Raab on the Customer Experience and Edison over on the Drools blog.

A framework for selecting business rules platforms
Ron Ross keynote and From Business Rules to [...]

One of the interesting panels was the one that Steve Hendrick of IDC hosted where representatives of many of the big players in business rules took questions. I did not attempt to take detailed notes but here are some of the things that struck me:

All the vendors are very focused on providing more tools to [...]

Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain and I presented on Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software. Scott writes a great blog on requirements.
The slides are on slideshare here

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I reviewed one of the books we referenced, Use Cases: Requirements in Context
Enjoy.

John Elder was next. John is a well-known data mining expert who runs Elder Research Inc. John was presenting on Top 10 Data Dangers When Discovering Business Rules. John’s focus was on data mining and other analytics techniques and he presented his top 10 mistakes:

Lack DataFor instance fraud cases can be so rare in a [...]

David Proctor of Experian gave the next session I attended on Combining the Power of Analytics and Business Rules to Drive Enterprise Decisioning Solutions.
He started by talking about the criticality of business rules and the value of managing them. In particular the ability to being experts into a collaborative approach. David then gave a [...]