I’m going to be on stage with Mike Gualtieri soon but I thought I would drop in and listen to him on the future of application development. Sadly this meant missing a session on BI but even I can’t be in two places at once. Mike’s theme is that the value of application developers in [...]

Mike made an interesting comment in response to my recent post on the future of application development. He said:
Are business domain tools necessary to enable a non-trivial development role for businesspeople?
Like many good questions the answer is complicated - in a way, both yes and no. I do agree with Mike that a non-trivial role [...]

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 [...]