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 [...]

Neil has a new speaking gig - he is going to be speaking at Brainstorm San Francisco on “Applying Decision Management to Make Process Simpler, Smarter and More Agile”, October 1st in the morning. You can find the agenda here and register here.

Neil Raden, Co-Founder here at Smart (enough) Systems, is joining John Russell, Chief Scientist of  expressor software on June 19, 2008 at 2 p.m. ET
Here’s the blurb:
Today’s data integration (DI) tools claim to offer significant benefits in implementation and ongoing support. However, design and specification consume much of the effort in a DI project. [...]

Neil and I recently contributed a chapter to the 2008 BPM and Workflow Handbook and they just sent out a pre-release discount:
Human-centric business process management (BPM) has become the product and service differentiator. The topic now captures substantial mindshare and market share in the human-centric BPM space as leading vendors have strengthened their human-centric business [...]

Neil’s two blog posts on BI and technology rated highly again - the second one getting more traffic from Intelligent Enterprise readers than any other posts. Check them out:

Technology Is Not the Driver of BI Adoption
BI and Technology: Part II

Howard Dresner, now independent but previously of Gartner and Hyperion and one of the leading voices in the Business Intelligence and Performance Management space listed Some good sources and included our book and our blogs (this one and Neil’s on Intelligent Enterprise). Thanks Howard.

Neil has just finished some research work on data warehouse performance for our friends at Teradata published as Meeting Demands for Data Warehouse Performance.  This white paper discusses how expanding operational roles for data warehouses, particularly in terms of supporting operational decision making and enterprise decision management, require dynamic workload capabilities on the data warehouse [...]

Neil and I are both speaking at the DAMA International Symposium & WILSHIRE Meta-Data Conference March 16-20, 2008 in San Diego. Our sessions are both on Tuesday March 18th:

James - Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems
Neil - Tainted Truth: Understanding Industry Surveys

There’s a discount price until Feb 8th. We would love to see you [...]

Doug Henschen just posted Intelligent Enterprise Top-20 Stories of 2007 and Neil’s article Business Intelligence 2.0: Simpler, More Accessible, Inevitable came in at number 3! The best I could do was get mentioned (along with Neil, again) in #16 The Rule Maturity Model: Five Steps to an Agile Enterprise. Still, not bad…