Webinars

Early Bird and European Time Zone Webinar Series

An Introduction to Decision Management
February 29, 2012 16:00 CET, 10am ET, 7am PT
Decision Management is a powerful approach for building a new class of information systems. This webinar will introduce the key principles of Decision Management Systems and explain their role in a modern information systems architecture. You will learn what it means for Decision Management Systems to be agile, analytic and adaptive. The four principles of Decision Management Systems will be introduced and the power of Decision Management Systems will be shown with case studies.

The Use of Business Rules in Decision Management Systems
March 14, 2012 at 16:00 CET, 10am ET, 7am PT
Business rules management systems are critical components in the effective development of Decision Management Systems. This webinar will focus on business rules and on Business Rules Management Systems as a platform for Decision Management Systems. You will learn how a Business Rules Management System makes the agility and transparency you need possible and what the key components are for an effective Business Rules Management System. The power of business rules to support both policy and analytic rules and the role of decisions in effective business rules solutions will also be discussed.

The Use of Predictive Analytics in Decision Management Systems
April 11, 2012 at 16:00 CET, 10am ET, 7am PT
Data Mining and Predictive Analytics play a critical role in improving the effectiveness of Decision Management Systems. To ensure that Decision Management Systems are analytic and adaptive you must embed the results of data mining and predictive analytics in them. In this webinar you will learn what can be discovered using data mining and predictive analytic techniques and how this can be applied to the decision-making embedded in Decision Management Systems. The role of analytics in predicting risk, fraud and opportunity and the importance of continuous improvement and learning will also be covered.

On-Demand Webinars

Four Platform Capabilities For Decision Management Systems
This webinar kicks off the first installment of our report on Decision Management Systems Technology Platforms. This report describes the wide range of technology available for building this exciting class of systems - Business Rules Management Systems, Predictive Analytic Workbenches and Optimization Suites, as well as recent advances around in-database analytics.

How to Build Decision Management Systems - Fall 2011 Webinar Series
Decision Management Systems are the next generation of information systems. Agile, analytic and adaptive, Decision Management Systems put business rules management systems and predictive analytics to work improving the effectiveness and efficiency of business operations.The recordings are available on-demand on our Omnovia channel and the slides are posted to our SlideShare channel.

Part One - Decision Discovery introduces the first step in successfully building Decision Management Systems, how to discover and model the right decisions.
Part Two - Decision Services describes the core of a Decision Management System, a set of software components that make these decisions accurately, reliably and responsively, leveraging advanced analytics and business rules management systems.
Part Three - Decision Analysis introduces a robust model of decisions to track and improve business performance.

Webinar Slides

From BI to Predictive Analytics

Companies are taking the next step from Business Intelligence to a truly intelligent business by integrating predictive analytics into their operations. Companies need to build on their investments in reporting, visualization and dashboards to move up the analytic maturity curve.Companies that successfully adopt predictive analytics are outperforming their competitors in areas such as underwriting, origination, marketing, customer retention, fraud detection, collections and more. Slides are posted on our SlideShare channel.

Increasing BPM Agility and Effectiveness with Decision Management

Combining BPM with Decision Management results in simpler, more agile processes and increases straight through processing and operational effectiveness. Decision Management delivers a shared framework for cross-functional business and IT collaboration creating game-changing culture impacts. In this webinar you will learn how combining Decision Management and BPM delivers simpler, more agile business processes, keeps fast-changing decisions separate from more stable business processes, drives more customer-centric collaboration by putting customer decisions at the focus, makes clear where and how to apply business rules and business rules management systems (BRMS).

Smarter ERP: Improving ERP Systems with Decision Management and Business Rules

Large companies rely on their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other enterprise applications to manufacture, distribute and manage the products their customers need. The behavior of these operational systems is critical to how a company treats, and is perceived by, its customers, its partners and its suppliers. Yet these systems are often plagued by manual interventions that delay processes, by hard to change constraints and thresholds and by problems with local exceptions to global processes. In this session James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions, will show how using Decision Management to apply business rules and analytic technology can upgrade your ERP to be smarter and more agile. Illustrated with case studies.

Legacy Modernization with Decision Management and Business Rules

Many organizations' agility and responsiveness is hamstrung by their legacy systems. Replacing them wholesale is impossible but the constraint they impose on the business is unacceptable. In this session James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions, will show how you can use Decision Management and business rules to avoid replacing the whole application while still maximizing agility and improving business alignment.

10 Best Practices in Operational Analytics with Dean Abbott

One of the most powerful ways to apply advanced analytics is by putting them to work in operational systems. Using analytics to improve the way every transaction, every customer, every website visitor is handled is tremendously effective. The multiplicative effect means that even small analytic improvements add up to real business benefit. In this session James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions, and Dean Abbott of Abbott Analytics discuss 10 best practices to make sure you can effectively build and deploy analytic models into your operational systems.

More presentations are available on our SlideShare Channel.