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Business Rules Management
Executive Briefings
Business Rules Revolution
- Executives across all industries are using technology to rewrite the rules of
business—literally; By Kristine Blenkhorn Rodriguez, INSIGHT Magazine, August
2006.
BRE Family Tree
Business Rules Hype Cycle
Rules for CEO's - A White Paper for CEOs, CIOs, VPs,
Directors, and Executives
What is the
difference between data-based, rule-based, and
knowledge-based systems?
Articles
BRE / Company / Application Matrix
- List of BRE
applications, companies, BRE tools, ROI, cost, and the
business case
American Express Authorizer's Assistant
Business Rules are the Key to CRM and One-to-One
Personalization; by Rolando Hernandez,
Founder & CEO, BIZRULES. Reprinted courtesy of
the Business Rules Journal, August 2001.
List of Applications where Expert Systems, Business Rules
and Knowledge-Based solutions are Most Effective
What is the difference between a Business Rule and an
IF-THEN Statement?; by Rolando Hernandez, BIZRULES
Expert Systems ROI
Business in Balance - Where Rules Management and BPM Meet;
Both rules engines and process management suites are vital to
business agility and performance. Here's how to strike the right
mix of techniques and score a perfect 10; by Bruce Silver,
Intelligent Enterprise; Oct. 1, 2006
Business Makes the Rules - Vendors promise to put business
staff in charge of rules, but do you really want users messing
with mission-critical apps? Here's how four firms are balancing
responsibilities for rules; By Michael P. Voelker; Intelligent
Enterprise; November 1, 2005
Putting Rules Engines to Work - What if, rather than
spending hours drafting meticulous requirements documents,
business analysts could design and implement software logic
directly, without the intervention of developers? That's the
goal of rules engines, and they're changing the way IT does
business; by James C. Owen, InfoWorld, June 28 2004
Legacy Rescue And Trinity Millennium, From IT-Director.com
Forward and Backward Chaining - Part 1,
by Charles Forgy, PhD Chief Scientist, RulesPower
Forward and Backward Chaining - Part 2,
by Charles Forgy, PhD Chief Scientist, RulesPower
Forward and Backward Chaining - Part 3,
by Charles Forgy, PhD Chief Scientist, RulesPower
Simple Successful Outsourcing: CIOs who outsource discrete
processes that have well-defined business rules are almost
always happy with the outcome, by STEPHANIE OVERBY; CIO
Magazine; October 12, 2005
Decision Management
Little Decisions Add Up, by Frank Rohde, VP, Fair Isaac
Corporation, from Harvard Business Review
Is All BPM Alike? By Alan Trefler, Founder, CEO, and
Chairman, Pegasystems
'Simply Smart BPM' Takes Businesses by Storm, From ebizq.net
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management is Key to Preventing Brain Drain. BP found out the
hard way; CEO’s finally got a wake up call about the true value of
managing knowledge and the risks of losing intellectual capital. It is
becoming painfully obvious that companies need to document and retain
the knowledge of their key personnel and subject matter experts. They
need to manage this intellectual capital and treat it like Intellectual
Property (IP) before it simply walks out the door. Just ask British
Petroleum.
Gates'
Memo: 'Beyond Business Intelligence: Delivering a Comprehensive Approach
to Enterprise Information Management.'; eWeek, May 17, 2006
Gates'
Memo: 'Beyond Business Intelligence: Delivering a Comprehensive Approach
to Enterprise Information Management.'; eWeek, May 17, 2006
Knowledge Management Helps Cut Errors by Half; COMPUTERWORLD, July
8, 2003
We Have The Techknowledy - New tools for Knowledge Management,
By Tom Davenport, CIO Magazine, Sept. 15, 1996
Expert Systems
Embedded Logic: Overhyped, then much maligned, expert systems
find their niche inside web applications; By FRED HAPGOOD;
CIO Magazine; May 1, 2000
Digital Equipment Corporation: Building an Expert System;
Information Systems: A Management Perspective; Prentice-Hall,
Inc.; 1999
DuPont's Packaging Advisor; Information Systems: A
Management Perspective; Prentice-Hall, Inc.; 1999
Coopers & Lybrand EXPERTAX: an Expert System for Tax Planning;
Information Systems: A Management Perspective; Prentice-Hall,
Inc.; 1999
Artificial Intelligence
Rise of the Machines: By 2010, will technology have terminated
most IT jobs?; BY JOHN EDWARDS; CIO Magazine, Dec. 15, 2003
The Smart Machines - Artificial Intelligence is making a
comeback at a company near you; BY MEG MITCHELL; CIO
Magazine; Sept. 15, 1998
AI BURNOUT - "By 1993, 'AI' was a dirty word. The AI industry
was shook up, shaped up and scaled down. Yet it still managed to
get some big corporate successes under its belt.";
Computerworld; April 8, 1994
Enterprise Architecture Modeling
Zachman Framework
Enterprise Application Integration
A Smarter Linking Logic - This revolutionary approach to
architecture might be the future of systems integration;
"The real challenge in hub-and-spoke architectures is creating a
solid set of business rules to govern the flow of messages..."By
Christopher Koch; CIO Magazine; Dec. 1, 1996.
Popkin System Architect
Business Rule Management Facility: System Architect 2001 Why
can't a standard repository work equally well as a means to
manage business rules?. Intelligent Enterprise article by
Terry Moriarty, President, Inastrol. (Link to external PDF)
Other IT TopicsOutsourcing
Simple Successful Outsourcing: CIOs who outsource discrete
processes that have well-defined business rules are almost
always happy with the outcome, by STEPHANIE OVERBY; CIO
Magazine; October 12, 2005
Computer History
Timeline of computer history and the
Computer History Museum
The Name Game - Is information technology making progress-or do
we just repackage it periodically? Client/server, thy name is
distributed processing. BY W.F. DYLE; CIO Magazine, Jan. 15,
1995
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