Recent posts on money and time have produced some excellent comments and correspondence. There is even recent OMG effort that is right on the money, at least concerning time. For details, see the Date-Time Foundational Vocabulary RFP. I am particularly impressed with SBVR “Foundation” Vocabularies, which I understand Mark Linehan of IBM presented last week [...]
Posts Tagged ‘PRR’
In the names of CEP and BPM
Have you heard the one about how to drive BPM people crazy? Ask them the question that drives CEP people crazy! Last fall, at the RuleML conference in Orlando, was the first time I heard a consensus that a standard ontology of events and processes was sorely needed. I’ve had a number of discussions with [...]
Rules are not enough. Knowledge is core to reuse.
James Taylor’s blog today on rules being core to BPM and SOA in which he discussed reuse had a particularly strong impact on me following a trip yesterday. During a meeting with the insurance and retail banking practice leaders at a large consulting firm, we looked for synnergies between applications related to investment and applications [...]
The $50 Business Rule
Work on acquiring knowledge about science has estimated the cost of encoding knowledge in question answering or problem solving systems at $10,000 per page of relevant textbooks. Regrettably, such estimates are also consistent with the commercial experience of many business rules adopters. The cost of capturing and automating hundreds or thousands of business rules is [...]
Missing Goals and Requirements in Business Rules
Both of the following statements are true, but the first is more informative: Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) typically produce forward chaining production rules that are interpreted by[1] a business rules engine (BRE) based on the Rete Algorithm. BRMS typically generate rules that are interpreted by a BRE. First, dropping the word “production” before “rules” [...]
Business Rules Market Maturity
Some recent correspondence with clients and prospective adopters of business rules technology indicates interested mainstream has become increasing concerned and confused by consolidation in the business rules market. On the analyst front, they read advice such as the following from Gartner:[1] As Gartner has stated, the BRE market is a volatile technology sector, and market [...]
Managing Semantics, Vocabulary and Business Rules as Knowledge
A client recently asked me for guidance in establishing a center of excellence concerning business rules within their organization. Their objectives included: Accumulate requisite skills for productive success. Establish methodologies for productive, reliable and repeatable success. Accumulate and reuse content (e.g., definitions, requirements, regulations, and policies) across implementations, departments or divisions. Establish multiple tutorial and [...]