tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:03:30 +0000http://www.bizrules.info/blog/index.htmlAsk RoloBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-25383611193204815Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:59:00 +00002007-02-25T17:03:30.744-05:00BlogI finally made the switch from Blogger to Movable Type. From now on I will be posting to the new blog http://bizrules.info/weblog/. All the old blog entries have been imported into the new blog. Most of the comments have been imported as well. Hopefully your feeds will move over automatically, but if they don't you will find the usual feed sign up links on the bottom right of the new blog. So http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2007/02/bizrules-blog-has-moved-to-new-address.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-6274683899036449789Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:09:00 +00002007-02-08T16:08:22.901-05:00GlossaryDecisioningMicro decisions are operational decisions. I like to call them a million little decisions. Examples of micro decisions that can be automated using business rules: Is the customer eligible for the product?Is the customer eligible for the promotion?What discounts is the customer entitled to?What should I up-sell right now?What should I cross-sell right now?What is the highest available commissionhttp://www.bizrules.info/blog/2007/02/micro-decisions-million-little.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-3609931670079955585Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:40:00 +00002007-02-08T12:13:50.899-05:00GlossaryDecisioningMacro decisions are strategic or tactical decisions. I like to call them million dollar decisions. Examples of macro decisions that can be automated using business rules: What is the best product that we should recommend for this customer? What is the best solution for this situation? What is our underwiting strategy and policy?What is our refund policy?What is our pricing strategy for next http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2007/02/macro-decisions-million-dollar-decision.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-116145813032861451Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:07:00 +00002007-02-08T12:11:05.418-05:00Great post by Sandy Kemsley on Column 2 with some interesting observations. First, SunGard has a BPMS product - does anyone know how it compares to BPMS/BRE tools like PegaRULES? Next, I wonder if companies are getting ROI from exporting business process models from modeling tools into a BPMS for execution. Or are companies more interested in using the modeling tools simply for documentation? http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/10/pratices-procedures-processes.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-112658304216175100Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:39:00 +00002007-02-08T11:58:48.071-05:00FAQSMEDecisioningEvery company has Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). But great companies also have what I call Super Experts. Everyone knows who the Super Experts are: They are the people that even the Subject Matter Experts call when they need help making a decision. They are the people that lead executives to seriously wonder, "what do we do if Peter gets hit by a truck?". Super Experts are the "brains" behind http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2005/09/who-are-subject-matter-experts-and.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-6855729005322590510Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:30:00 +00002007-01-31T12:30:11.991-05:00JobsBizRules is looking for a - Business Rules Analyst - Business Requirements Analyst in the DC/MD area for a long term project. If you are interested and have experience harvesting/discovering rules, defining requirements, or authoring rules in Business Rule Engines (BRE), contact us or send your resume to JOBS [at] BIZRULES.COM 305.994.9510http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2007/01/jobs-business-rule-analysts.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-9115266861755741212Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:58:00 +00002007-01-31T12:02:57.837-05:00BlogI converted to the new version of Blogger so I can finally add categories or labels to each post. Just noticed that as I add labels to old posts, they may show up as "new" items in your RSS feed or news reader. Sorry about that! A lot of the new features in Blogger such as layouts are still not activated, and as a result I can't add the list of labels or categories to the layout. If anyone knowshttp://www.bizrules.info/blog/2007/01/adding-categories-to-blog-using-new.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-114905523449968287Wed, 31 May 2006 04:05:00 +00002007-01-31T11:25:21.461-05:00FAQBestPracticeHere's a great way to decide which rules belong in the rule engine and which rules could be hard-coded. The idea is that rules that you have no control over, such as compliance rules, must be rule-based so you can react quickly and implement them as soon these rules are changed. When a regulating authority tells you when the new rules become effective, you have no control whatsoever, and a rule http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/05/what-rules-belong-in-bre-and-what.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-113592261113171924Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:07:00 +00002007-01-31T11:17:38.343-05:00AnalystI'd like to wrap up my blogging for the year with a couple of thoughts that I'd like to explore further next year. My first thought is about the risks of offshoring rule harvesting. I'll talk about that next year. My second thought is on the state of the rules market. I'll write about that in my next blog. My third thought is about the differences between a business rules analyst and a business http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2005/12/use-business-rule-analysts-for-rule.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-113592743461981711Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:17:00 +00002007-01-31T11:08:11.788-05:00PredictionsTHE STATE OF THE BUSINESS RULES MARKET 2006 By Rolando Hernandez, CEO, BIZRULES. 12/30/2005 SHORT TERM OUTLOOK Business rules automation is starting to revolutionize business. In the next year or two, business rules automation is going to, pardon the pun, change the rules of the game. It is going to literally and figuratively rewrite the rules of business. If your competitor uses rule engines,http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2005/12/rules-of-business-just-changed-again.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-115228607625017884Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:35:00 +00002007-01-31T02:15:11.969-05:00InRuleBIZRULES has joined the InRule Technology ROAD Partner Program. InRule is the only BRE built entirely on and optimized for the .NET platform. InRule should be on your BRE short-list if you need a fast .NET rule engine. By joining the InRule Technology ROAD Partner Program, BIZRULES can now provide consulting services for InRule Technology clients needing additional help implementing rules-basedhttp://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/07/inrule-technology-new-bizrules.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-115211689099202960Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:10:00 +00002007-01-31T02:13:54.246-05:00KnowledgeChallengesCEOIn a recent issue of Chief Executive* magazine, Editor in Chief J.P. Donlon had this to say about the value of knowledge management: The single greatest challenge facing CEOs is to raise the productivity of knowledge throughout the enterprise. It is an economic truth that real earnings and real incomes cannot be higher than productivity for any length of time. And knowledge and insight into http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/07/productivity-of-mind.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-113960957855689650Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:13:00 +00002007-01-31T02:01:03.590-05:00HaleyILOGMSFTChallengesPredictionsPegaFICExecutives used to have secretaries. Now they have Word. Companies used to have IT/Finance modelers to do "what if" analysis. Now they have Excel. Newspapers used to have strippers (no not that kind!) that did page layout by hand. Now they have PageMaker. In the early days of the Web, you needed a Webmaster to create your website. Now you have FrontPage. What's missing today in the business http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/02/rules-10.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-112784754527437167Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:57:00 +00002007-01-31T01:59:13.631-05:00RETEMergersFICSep. 27, 2005: The Business Rule Management industry shakeout continues. Today Fair Isaac announced it has acquired RulesPower, development staff, rights to the RETE III algorithm, and other patent pending technology. More details on strategy & direction to be announced later by FI. See www.fairisaac.com/rulespower for details.http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2005/09/ma-fair-isaac-acquires-rulespower.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-111621878985722625Mon, 16 May 2005 05:35:00 +00002007-01-31T01:58:22.897-05:00PersonalI’m a very lucky guy. First, I met my lovely wife Michelle. That was the luckiest thing and the best thing that ever happened to me. Second, I have been lucky and fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to work on many advanced technologies and be on the leading edge of technology. 2000 – presentServed as IBM’s Business Rules SME and Business Rules Architect on the largest civilian systemshttp://www.bizrules.info/blog/2005/05/little-bit-about-me-very-little.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-113198897085807791Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:25:00 +00002007-01-31T01:57:48.699-05:00ConferencesROI(See photos) I just got back from the 8th International Business Rules Forum, which was held in Orlando last week. I ran into many old friends and met a lot of people who were there for the first time. Also had a chance to hear John Zachman and meet him in person, thanks to my friend Ronald G. Ross (Conference Co-Chair) who introduced us after John's classic presentation. There were a number ofhttp://www.bizrules.info/blog/2005/11/rules-are-paradigm-shift-and-roi-is-10.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-115927341375896305Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:18:00 +00002007-01-31T01:57:04.524-05:00ILOGNew Shanghai Location to Manage Expanding Business Operations ILOG has established a subsidiary in China to support its expanding business operations in China, recruit and manage its partnerships there and create an increased demand for ILOG's products in the country. Based in Shanghai, ILOG Software Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. is a Wholly-Owned Foreign Enterprise, which will be led by http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/09/press-release-ilog-opens-subsidiary-in.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-115955514530783108Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:25:00 +00002007-01-31T01:56:09.631-05:00IBMhttp://www.insurancenetworking.com/protected/article.cfm?articleId=4331&pb=ros Here's a great article in Insurance Networking News where James Bisker, global insurance industry leader, IBM Institute for Business Value, defines knowledge-based, expert and artificial intelligence systems and provides insight into how they can benefit insurance industry operations. He says: "The type of KBS that http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/09/knowledge-based-systems-defined-by-ibm.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-115621321560497420Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:04:00 +00002007-01-31T01:55:36.062-05:00SOXBelow is an excerpt of my opening remarks during the panel discussion on Sarbanes-Oxley Regulation at the iCoast Technology Show in Ft. Lauderdale on August 17th. Success in the world of business depends on understanding the rules. You need to know the internal rules and policies of your business. You have to comply with the external rules and regulations that govern your business, industry, andhttp://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/08/sarbanes-oxley-panel-discussion-at.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-116123924891673454Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:32:00 +00002007-01-31T01:54:06.180-05:00MSFTChallengesI discovered David Strommer's blog about .Net and Enterprise Architecture recently. One post caught my eye, Microsoft Rules 1.0 for MS Office, which is about a story called Rules 1.0 that I wrote about Rulebase Management Systems. David's quote is spot on: "One of the most difficult challenges of any application development effort is accuratly capturing the business processes and rules." - - http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/10/microsoft-rules-10-for-ms-office.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-116120948364435071Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:06:00 +00002007-01-31T01:53:06.799-05:00FICFair Isaac Recognized as Business Rules Management Systems Market Leader October 02, 2006 09:21 AM Eastern Time Industry Analyst Report Credits Fair Isaac’s Leadership to the Continued Success of its Award-Winning Blaze Advisor Business Rules Management System in the North American Market MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC), the leading provider of analytics and http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/10/press-release-fair-isaac-recognized-as.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-116071454638654944Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:22:00 +00002007-01-31T01:52:28.172-05:00PegaBeen travelling a bit lately so I'm finally getting around to reading the rags. An in-depth review of Pegasystems SmartBPM Suite in Intelligent Enterprise has been added to the Reviews section of the Business Rules Knowledge Base.http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/10/review-pegasystems-unifies-process-and_13.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-116058308809300172Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:03:00 +00002007-01-31T01:51:55.996-05:00ILOGIBMMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – October 11, 2006 – ILOG, a leading Business Rule Management System (BRMS) vendor, today announced its acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty Program after successfully completing IBM’s extensive service-oriented architecture (SOA) technical and business requirements. With this achievement, ILOG has integrated its JRules™ BRMS seamlessly with the IBM SOA Foundation, a http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/10/press-release-ilog-reveals-its.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-116187242134367770Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:15:00 +00002007-01-31T01:51:15.859-05:00ILOGILOG S.A. (ADR)(ILOG) PARIS and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 26 ILOG(R) today announced results for the first quarter of fiscal 2007, ended September 30, 2006. Revenues for the quarter amounted to $35.8 million and diluted earnings per share were $0.07. This compared with revenues of $30.7 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.11 for the prior year's first quarter. "This quarter we http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/10/press-release-ilog-announces-2007.htmlAsk Rolotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12789646.post-116102876932993709Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:55:00 +00002007-01-31T01:50:49.069-05:00HaleyLeading Health and Life Insurer Selects Haley’s BRMS Solution for Its SOA Environment PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Haley Systems, Inc. today announced that HealthMarkets, a leading provider of affordable health and life insurance for individuals, the self-employed, small businesses and students, has selected its Business Rules Management System (BRMS). HealthMarkets selected Haley as a http://www.bizrules.info/blog/2006/10/press-release-healthmarkets-selects.htmlAsk Rolo