Copyright © 2008 James Taylor. Visit the original article at EDM Summit – some closing thoughts.
I thought I would wrap up with some closing thoughts for the week:
- Lots of discussion of the importance of data – understanding it, integrating it, cleaning it and making the same data available to those reporting on it, doing analytics with it and running operational systems.
- Interesting times in the rules market with recent acquisitions by SAP, IBM, Oracle and Bosch
- Definite signs of growing awareness that decisioning is at the intersection of rules, analytics, data mining and more
- Some companies are showing great returns on an investment in decision management using both business rules and analytics
- Worries about the short term impact of the global crisis were balanced with optimism that the current problems will make companies more focused on building the kind of rules-based, analytically-enhanced, agile systems that can help prevent these problems in the future
Lots of people blogged – me, Sandy, Paul, Angie, Mike. Here’s the full list of posts I have found – I will edit it if any more show up
Tutorials
- 2008 Business Rules Forum – Day 1
- 2008 Business Rules Forum – Day 2
- Business Rules Forum 2008: Agile, Optimization
Day 1
- Live from the EDM Summit – From Here to Agility
- From Here to Agility: Ron Ross on Rules
- Hotwire.com Revenue Management
- Risk Management at Sun
- Business Rules Forum: Mixing Rules and Process
- Rules and Process Management for Insurers
- Business Rules Forum 2008: Business Decisions from Real Time Events
- Business Rules Forum: Vendor Panel
- Business Rules Forum 2008: The BRE Vendor Panel
- Business Rules Forum 2008: And one last thing…
- Business Intelligence meets SOA
- 2008 Business Rules Forum – Day 3
Day 2
- Business Rules Forum: James Taylor and Neil Raden keynote
- Taylor and Raden Define Decision Management
- Business Rules Forum: Gladys Lam on Rule Harvesting
- Business Rules Forum: Pedram Abrari on MDA, SOA and rules
- Rules in tables, spreadsheets and diagrams
- Predictive Analytics Produces Business Rules That Deliver
- Business Rules Forum 2008: Upper Ontology for Events, Processes, States, Rules
- Business Rules Forum 2008: Nearly CEP
- Business Rules Forum – Beyond Subject Matter Expertise
- Business Rules Forum – Disney and their Data
Day 3
- Building Blocks of Decision Management
- Business Rules Forum: Kathy Long on Process and Rules
- Integrating Predictive Analytics and BRM to Improve Health Plan Member Experience
- New Approaches to Creating, Simplifying and Visualizing Rules
- Optimizing Customer Lifecycle Management
- Business Rules Forum: Kevin Chase of ING
- RuleML 2008: PRR and rules vs decisions
- Business Rules Forum 2008: on the Web, & Emerging Trends
- Business Rules Forum 2008
