James Owen and others have been organizing what they bill as a technical rules event in Dallas this October. It’s the 22nd to the 24th (so it doesn’t clash with the EDM Summit) Here’s the agenda. They have some great speakers and some interesting experts participating so it should be worthwhile for those among [...]

Dean Hager from Lawson came on to follow-up on the dynamic business applications story. Dynamic means “continuous change, activity, or progress” and Enterprise Applications “suck at this” to use his words. But this is a problem as the world is changing - people change, events cause change, the business climate changes and more. He asked [...]

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 [...]

Stephen Brobst of Teradata was next with A Reference Architecture for Integrating an Active Data Warehouse into the Real-Time Enterprise. He started with a great quote from a Gartner analyst:
No such thing as a business surprise - there is always a warning in advance
but were you listening - did you collect data about it, analyze [...]

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 [...]