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Power Digital Business with Decisions, Business Rules and Predictive Analytics

Posted By: Meri Gruber | Posted On: 13th June 2017 |

Digital business provides new revenue and value-creating opportunities, helping organizations to: Improve customer engagement and retention with next best action marketing. Process more claims faster and more accurately. Reduce the cost and difficulty of regulatory compliance. and more. Next Best Action Digitizing, personalizing and improving customer interactions is critical to business growth, customer retention and […]

Real world examples of how modeling decisions with DMN has helped – a video

Posted By: James Taylor | Posted On: 17th May 2016 |

The sixth and final in the series of short videos about Decision Modeling is focused on some real-world examples of the value of decision modeling. Jan Purchase and I developed these videos while working on a new book – Available now! – Real-World Decision Modeling with DMN:

The differences between decisions and business rules– a video

Posted By: James Taylor | Posted On: 10th May 2016 |

The fifth in the series of short videos about Decision Modeling is focused on the differences between decisions and business rules. Jan Purchase and I developed these videos while working on a new book – Real-World Decision Modeling with DMN:

Why Write a Book When There’s a Standard? – A Video

Posted By: James Taylor | Posted On: 27th April 2016 |

The fourth in our series of videos about Decision Modeling discusses the difference between the book and the standard document published by OMG. Jan Purchase and I developed these while working on a new book – Real-World Decision Modeling with DMN – and this video discusses why we think a book is useful and necessary even with a published standard: […]

What’s the Motivation for Decision Modeling? – a video

Posted By: James Taylor | Posted On: 15th April 2016 |

The second in the series of short videos about Decision Modeling is focused on motivation – why model decisions? Jan Purchase and I developed while working on a new book – Real-World Decision Modeling with DMN – and this second video discusses some of the key motivations for adopting decision modeling: Practical benefits of decision modeling in terms of […]

Excellent Resource for Business Rules Architects and Analysts

Posted By: Meri Gruber | Posted On: 10th March 2016 |

Jan Purchase of LuxMagi, a business rules and decision management specialist, has an excellent blog series on the benefits of a decisions-first approach to business rule analysis and business rules management system (BRMS) implementation. In How DMN Allows Business Rules to Scale, Jan describes the well known problem with current rules-first approaches that “rush to […]

5 Reasons Why Business Analysts Like Decision Modeling with DMN

Posted By: James Taylor | Posted On: 7th January 2016 |

The purpose of business analysis is to accurately describe the requirements for an information system (more or less). Business Analysts use a variety of techniques to do this. They use techniques designed to help them find out what is required, to elicit the requirements, and they use techniques to describe and model those requirements in […]

3 Important Decision Modeling Use Cases and More Decision Management News

Posted By: Meri Gruber | Posted On: 30th September 2015 |

From our September 2015 Newsletter Decision Modeling is an important new approach with many powerful use cases. I’d like to highlight 3 uses cases shared by participants in our recent Introduction to Decision Management and Decision Modeling with DMN online training courses. We saw a lot of interest in the training this time and the Decision Modeling with DMN course sold out. Some attendees were expanding […]

Upcoming Training in Decision Management and Decision Modeling with DMN

Posted By: Meri Gruber | Posted On: 17th July 2015 |

The next session of our popular live online training courses in Decision Management and Decision Modeling with DMN are now posted: Introduction to Decision Management August 25-27, 2015 Decision Management allows the effective automation of decision-making combined with increased business agility and greater effectiveness. Decision Management is a proven approach for adopting business rules and predictive […]

Version 7 of The Decision Management Systems Platform Technologies Report

Posted By: Meri Gruber | Posted On: 19th June 2015 |

We’ve posted Version 7 of our popular Decision Management Systems Platform Technologies Report with new content on The Analytics Capability Landscape. We also welcome new vendors Blue Yonder and Erudine to the platform vendor index. Overview Organizations are adopting a new class of operational systems called Decision Management Systems to meet the demands of consumers, regulators and […]