Archive for October, 2006

Most BRMS & BPMS vendors talk of different roles like Business Users, Business Analysts. I found these posts that attempt to clarify “Who is a Business Analyst”

Business Analysts: Strategic or Tactical
Product Managers Vs Business Analysts

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Now, check out this post on ZDNET Education. It prompted me to check out what goes into Student information Systems, 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 […]

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I came across this Business Rules use-case the other day .

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Talking of Business Technologies, 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” […]

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Now, this is should be interesting! Do you think the Miss Manners & Waltz performance benchmarks for Rule Engines really matter anymore?
We have seen many vendors including my company push out performance benchmarks for Rete for the Miss Manners Test.
Our Product Architect pointed out this link from the JBoss Website. Watch the conclusions!
Now, BRMS […]

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I was pointed out to this post in The Masked Blogger yesterday. A very interesting comment comes from this blog.

I did my weekly grocery shopping at my local Sainbury’s Supermarket yesterday. I used their self-scan handset that let’s you scan items as you select them from the shelf. This means the checkout process is […]

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Business Rules for Everyone has this very interesting Business Rules story. A good  read!
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TallTowers Corp (TTC) (fictional) is a Real Estate Company. Their Business is selling Property. They sell different kinds of properties, condo’s, apartments, Premium housing, commercial , and so on.
An astounding number of buyers these days, including myself, start their home search online. This meant that the company ended up with a very large number of […]

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Udi Dahan has this post on Domain Driven Design (DDD) that I found interesting.I would say that no discussion on DDD would be complete without a mention of Business Rules. After all, it is Business Rules that adds most of the complexity that surrounds building Business Applications.
It is business rules that change most often and […]

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