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links for 2007-03-28
2007-03-28 03:28:00 Online Books 4 Free: Free Psychology Books (tags: Psychology) More About: Links , Link
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2007-03-08 23:51:03 Business Intelligence Lowdown: Top 10 Largest Databases in the World (tags: Data) More About: Links , Link
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2007-03-01 23:46:03 Should Business Rules Be Technology Neutral? - Kenneth Downs’s personal blog (tags: BusinessRules) More About: Links , Link
links for 2007-02-27
2007-02-28 23:46:01 In E-commerce, Small is the New Big (tags: Micropayments) More About: Links , Link
links for 2007-02-24
2007-02-25 23:44:07 TomDebevoise.com » The Agile Core (tags: Agility) Decision Table Publications (tags: BusinesRules) Supply and Demand Chain News, Events, Jobs, Podcasts, Webcasts at SDCExec.com (tags: SupplyDemand) More About: Links , Link
links for 2007-02-22
2007-02-22 05:42:02 Japan Media Review — Emerging Business Applications in the Japanese Mobile Internet (tags: Mobile) Home (tags: DataWarehousing) More About: Links , Link
Improving Disconnected Decisions with Smart Mobile Applications
2007-02-21 17:41:03 I was browsing through the Java Mobile Applications Website, then came across a 2004 Report on Emerging Business Applications in the Japanese Mobile Internet. Pretty Interesting stuff. Integrating Mobile Applications into the work fabric unlocks many efficiencies, while also introducing some challenges. Here are some of the uses of Mobile Technology that I have heard of. Mobile Applications for Field Personnel (Real Estate, Financial Services, Retail) Fleet Management Apps in Retail Supply Chain Applications in Retail, Government. A Usecase for Analysis Lets take one example of a Sales Agent for a Financial Services Firm. Lets assume he sells financing for Tractors and other farming equipment. He uses a Mobile Phone with Java or Windows CE, which runs a quote generation application. This application connects to a central website to which he submits the details of the equipment the prospect is interested in. He should be able to generate a quote on his Mobile, and attempt to clos... More About: Cat , Smart , With
Thinking of Human Activities and Business Processes
2007-02-21 11:40:01 Now, I was speaking to our Product Architect yesterday. He was saying that we need business rules technology to solve the problems arising out of H-Commerce. Now, what in the world is H-Commerce? When we think and of business systems, I have noticed that we generally think in terms of computers, software systems, databases, business processes, warehouses, SOA, Information Management Systems, ERP and other countless other words. But, you canNot really ignore that there are people out there, and are very much a very big part of every equation. Now, H-Commerce is essentially the sum of the following. H2B - Human to Business Interactions H2C - Human to Customer Interactions H2H - Human to Human Interactions Read More at Business Decisions in a Digital Enterprise More About: Activities , Business Process , Think
Introducing the Blogging Family !
2007-02-21 11:40:01 Now, this is really happening. I started blogging here and then here. Then, I discovered that my sis has been doing it for some time here. Then my dad started on his own here And now my Wife is writing here. More About: Family , Blogging , Blog , Intro , Blogg
links for 2007-02-20
2007-02-20 23:39:08 dataWarehouse.com | Brought to you by DM Review (tags: Data) There is no spoon, why the best software design and development process is all in your head (tags: PM) » From semantic Web (3.0) to the WebOS (4.0) | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com (tags: WebOS) More About: Links , Link
links for 2007-02-15
2007-02-15 23:36:03 Bank Systems & Technology: The Blog: The biggest hindrance to growing any bank is the depersonalization of customers. (tags: CRM Banking) More About: Links , Link
links for 2007-02-13
2007-02-14 23:35:06 Adding Simplicity - An Engineering Mantra: Latency Exists, Cope! I put this line on a slide recently for a presentation at work. Looking around the room, I could tell that some of the people understood, some were perplexed, and some annoyed. What does latency have to do with architecture anyway? We’re concerned with pr (tags: Architecture) Smart Clients: New Guidance And Tools For Building Integrated Desktop Applications — MSDN Magazine, September 2006 (tags: .NET) Eleven Emerging Ideas for SOA Architects in 2007 (tags: SOA) Fred Chong’s WebBlog : SaaS is a journey, walk with us (tags: SaaS) Mike Walker’s Ramblings about Industry Architecture : Microsoft Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Update (tags: SOA) More About: Links , Link
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2007-02-14 23:35:06 How banking on a mobile phone can help the poor | FP Passport (tags: Banking) More About: Links , Link
Recent Posts on Business Rules
2007-02-14 23:35:06 How to Manage Online Product Availability Effectively. Eweek has this article about Mercado Software that will without human intervention?add and remove products based on inventory and item profit margins. I found that interesting because this is a clear use case for business rules technology. I am sure that Mercado internally use some kind of Decisioning mechanism, and I would love to understand what it is. But, talking about these class of problems,here are some of the usecases that the article mentions. If Inventory Level for a Product Goes Below a Threshold (Event) … BPM, BI & BRMS A Broad View from 10000 Feet. Ismail Ghalimi has this write up on Where BPM & BI Meet. I wanted to add my 2 cents here because I feel that Business Rules Systems are very much a part of the picture. As they say, one picture is worth a thousand words, here is my thousand. Click image to enlarge. [ broadview.gif] … Decision Automation in Disaster Recovery Venk... More About: Business Rules , Post , Cent
Recent Posts on Business Rules
2007-02-11 23:33:02 Programming is Dead. Long live Business Rules I was reading The Death of Computing and thinking about it, when I came across Too Much Code. Reading these two, I was reminded of The Problem with Programming. Now, I have earlier written about how you can beat complexity using business rules and speeding up your projects. Now, I would be speaking only of business application software here, as I myself started with application software only. The Million Dollar Question.. Are current programming languages the right tool to capture business decision logic? … How to Effectively Outsource Using Business Rules In an earlier post on Agile Enterprises, I covered this briefly.This post intends to fully take up the subject . Here are some of the major engineering issues that arise parallel/outsourced development scenario. Concurrent Engineering We want to be able to develop solution parts, capabilities in parallel. In case of a distributed development environment, this becomes r... More About: Post , Cent
links for 2007-02-07
2007-02-07 11:27:01 Top-down compliance - IT Services - www.itnews.com.au (tags: compliance) Technology News: Spotlight Features: M-Commerce Market on the Move, Part 1 (tags: mcommerce) More About: Links , Link
Business Decisions in a Digital Enterprise - Recent Posts
2007-02-06 17:25:03 Most Recent Post s from Business Decisions in a Digital Enterprise And Talking of Agile Enterprises ? BPMG.org has this post on How Agile Enterprise Addresses the Challenges of the 21st Cent ury. Now, now, how can any talk of Enterprise Agility leave behind business rules from the picture. Five major trends in the industry identified in the post are these. Shrinking Business Cycles - A Need for Speed Commoditization of Products and Services - Need service differentiators Demand for Total Products and Services - Time and Space Contraction - Global Business Consolidation/Outsourcing An Excerpt from the Post Companies are now pursuing agile … Documenting Complex System Behavior When this blogger asks Can complicated Software systems really be documented , I find myself agreeing with him to some extent. I am completely convinced that good design and some better programmers combined with whatever documentation is available is what you could hope for at best most ...
links for 2007-01-11
2007-01-11 17:09:03 SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator (tags: Funny) The Fudge Factory (tags: Funny) Line56.com: Free BI (tags: OpenSource) Fred Chong’s WebBlog (tags: SaaS) More About: Links , Link
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2007-01-05 05:05:03 Online With LIMRA Home Page (tags: Banking, LIMRA) More About: Links , Link
links for 2006-12-21
2006-12-22 16:56:02 Welcome to Law Professor Blogs (tags: Legal) More About: Links , Link
links for 2006-12-08
2006-12-08 10:44:02 Office Business Application Patterns (tags: MSOffice .NET) Ask Lifehacker: Convert OPML to HTML? (tags: Tips&Tricks) Read Word 2007 files with Docx Converter (tags: Tips&Tricks MSOffice) Categories: Roundup (tags: Marketing) Mortgage Technology (tags: Mortgage) TowerGroup-Home Page (tags: Analysts) BAI Online | Banking Strategies | July/August | Where?s The Innovation (tags: Banking2.0) More About: Links , Link
links for 2006-12-07
2006-12-07 22:43:12 Photoblogs.org (tags: Photoblog) Insurance industry news and trends from Insurance Networking News (tags: InsuranceNews) Product Management | Marketing Strategy | Product Management Templates | Product Manager Guides (tags: Product_Management) ARTS HOME PAGE (tags: Retail) InsuranceBroadcasting.com - Home Page (tags: InsuranceNews) IBM SOA Business Catalog (tags: SOA) Insurance News Net (tags: InsuranceNews) Validation Application Block: Revealed! (tags: .NET) Industry Centers - Overview (tags: Architecture) Insurance & Technology (tags: InsuranceNews) Lambert Consultants: BRDP: Resource Center: Business Rule Link s (tags: BusinessRules)
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2006-12-06 04:41:08 Card Technology, The Smart Card News Source (tags: Payments, NFC) Next generation payments solution (tags: Payments, NFC) More About: Links , Link
I need more channels of Expression !
2006-12-02 16:39:05 Now, in my other life as the product manager for a business rules management system, I write a very focused blog on the Business Rules technology. But, as I have started writing, I have felt this acute need for having another channel for expression. I come across so much stuff that I want to talk about. I cannot comment on that as the guy who talks about business rules. So, I decided to invent another avatar that I can use to write about whatever I want , and just freak out! More About: Press , Channels , More , Need , Sion
Student Information Systems - Can you do it better ?
2006-11-02 07:39:02 Now, check out this post on ZDNET Education. It prompted me to check out what goes into Student information System s, and surprise, I found a whole bunch of Business Rules there! Now What is a SIS? SIS are typically student information portals. You can expect to find the following information, facilities in an SIS Enrollment, re-enrollment into courses. Fees, scholarships & financial assistance & related matters Textbooks, news, exam papers & stuff The latest assignments, grades and other nerdy stuff Campus news, extra-curricular activities, jobs etc. Show me the Rules, dude ! Now, Universities offer a large number of courses.Even reasonably large universities might have 10,000 students, and the bigger ones might have anywhere between 30,000 - 40,000, I guess. A student might be eligible to only take certain courses, depending on his area of study His eligibility for a course might also depend on availability with that prof, or his GPA might also be a factor in his ge... More About: Information , Info , Inform
Mission Impossible - IV
2006-11-02 07:39:02 I came across this Business Rules use-case the other day . Background Cool Gadgets(fictional) is a Government lab. They do cutting edge research in security devices. They are an out & out Microsoft shop.They were running a government funded pilot project. The project was to build a new cool distributed security application, integrating inputs from a wide variety of sensors like Motion sensors, retinal sensors etc. The inputs from the sensors will be used to determine When & how will the doors to an high security environment open. What kind of tools can be used within a secure environment and what cannot be used The scope of the application can be a single high security room, a cluster of high security environments, and even geographically distributed sections. So what were the challenges? These security procedures change often, probably on a daily basis The people responsible for the security procedures could be scientists, technicians. Essentially, non-geeks!Therefore, ... More About: Miss , Sion , Mission , Impossible , Ossi
Online CRM - How good is it anyway?
2006-11-02 07:39:02 Now, I have been thinking of getting my own hosted blog. So this Monday, I picked one ISP and decided that I will get a hosted Wordpress blog up. Now this is what happened! Monday -> Sign up at the Dreamhost’s website, provide a domain name, make payment, and fax my credit card details over to the company. The Advertised account activation time by the ISP is 1 Business day Tuesday -> Nothing happens. So I log a support request. I get a response that the ISP is handling a lot of pending activations, and that they are sorry for the delay. The usual boilerplate! Wednesday , Thursday nothing happens! No email, no news, nothing Friday -> I am completely pissed off, and send them an angry mail, asking them to refund the payment. I am not interested in these guys anymore I get a defiant response from the ISP that they never got the FAX, and that they are closing my account, and making the refund 2 hours later, I get an automated email from their system saying that my email... More About: Online , Good , Line
Business Technologies - Business growth drivers or Operation
More articles from this author:2006-11-02 07:39:02 Talking of Business Techno logies, I am thinking of the following: Business Process Management Business Rules Management Business Intelligence Management That most serious growth driven organizations have adopted IT in a major way is well documented. So, in the current landscape, when all the organization have their own internal IT systems, automated processes, how can “A Business” differentiate itself “Another” in a continuous & sustainable fashion? Well, let me proceed and present an argument ! SOA in conjunction with BPM can help improve, stream line operations.They are essentially infrastructure technologies. Business Intelligence allows an organization to reflect on its “Business Life” and learn lessons and therefore Improve Business Rules, the Rules of the Game, the Rules of Customer & market engagement, control & drive all Business Processes. Like my dear friend VD, our marketing head honcho says, BRMS are typically “A... More About: Drivers , Opera , Drive 1, 2 |
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