The Business Rules Forum has started here in Las Vegas, and I’m here all week giving a presentation in the BPM track, facilitating a workshop and sitting on a panel. James Taylor and Eric Charpentier are also here presenting and blogging, with a focus more purely on rules and decision management; you will want to [...]
I was on a(nother) Gartner webinar today and this slide particularly resonated: The key point is that although there’s a lot to be gained from automating and supporting business processes with BPMS, if you want to leverage productivity improvements, you need to be doing something with the events that are generated from the business processes. [...]
Not only did Oracle schedule this briefing on Canada Day, the biggest holiday in Canada, but they forced me to download the Real Player plug-in in order to participate. The good part, however, is that it was full streaming audio and video alongside the slides. Charles Phillips, Oracle President, kicked off with a welcome and [...]
I switched over to the architecture stream to see the session on trade lifecycle management using BusinessWorks and iProcess, jointly presented by Cognizant and TIBCO. Current-day trading systems are under a great deal of stress because of increased volume of trades, more complex cross-border trades, and greater compliance requirements. When trades fail, for a variety [...]
This post has been a long time coming: I missed talking to Agent Logic at the Gartner BPM event in Orlando in September since I didn’t stick around for the CEP part of the week, they persisted and we had both an intro phone call and a longer demo session in the weeks following. Then [...]
For the last session today, I attended Jan Venthienen’s session; he’s a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He talked about different representations of rules, particularly decision tables (at length, although in an interesting way). He talked about the problems with maintaining decision trees, then as he moved on to business processes, he showed how a [...]
The opening keynote today was Steve Hendrick of IDC, discussing their acronym du jour, IPA (intelligent process automation), which is a combination of BPM, BI and decisioning. He lists four key constructs of IPA: Event processing, providing a sense and respond approach Decisioning, covering both rules and actions that might be derived from those rules [...]
A good intro article on complex event processing (CEP), subtitled “Bringing BPM into the real world”. The future of BAM.
