I presented at an evening event for SAI, a professional IT organization, in Brussels last night and had a wonderfully attentive and engaged audience - remarkably so considering how late the event was! I promised to post my slides and here they are - a longer version of my decision services presentation.

Thomas was back on talking about the catalog of 85 SOA Design Patterns that he is publishing this year - SOA Design Patterns. Design patterns are a field-testing or proven design solution to a common design problem. Some are compound, most are atomic. These SOA Patterns overcome common design challenges for the successful adoption of [...]

I just finished presenting at the SOA Symposium and if you are interested in my presentation you can find it on slideshare.
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Thomas Erl presented on the Architecture of Service-Orientation to start the breakout sessions and build on his opening comments. The key challenge is that of the endless IT progress cycle - the business continually needs more and different support from IT to deal with changes to business models while IT has new and changing capabilities [...]

The SOA Symposium started today in the AJAX Stadium in Amsterdam. The opening keynotes were actually in the Stadium itself - we all sat at the halfway line. Thomas Erl and Sandy Carter gave quick intros and I will add some comments later but I could not type so this is just a placeholder have [...]

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.

A reader had an interesting question this week. As a comment to Using decision management to deliver intelligent business performance he asked “What makes a company ready?”. I suspect my closing line “The products are, mostly, ready. Whether companies are is another question…” prompted this.
So, what makes a company ready for enterprise decision management - [...]

A reader asked me last week about how I saw business rules engines fitting in with UML, SOA and Microsoft. The article discusses whether Microsoft’s Oslo strategy for SOA will be based on UML or merely offer support for it among many standards.
First, let me say that I think it is increasingly clear that application [...]

I had a chance to catch up with Marwane from IDS Scheer the other day and talk about ARIS, IDS Scheer’s enterprise modeling product. The ARIS architecture or platform has currently more than 25 products for enterprise modeling divided into 4 platforms (Strategy, design, implementation and controlling) and 6 solutions (Enterprise BPM, EA, SAP, [...]

Well it seems that IBM believes in business rules too. I was reading SOMA: A method for developing service-oriented solutions which I found thanks to Eric Roch’s post on IBM’s SOA Methodology anda couple of things struck me:

Business rules get called out explicitly both in the meta model Eric shows and in the overall flow. [...]