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 of the times. Anything more, and things would get […]

Software as a Service (SaaS) is an interesting area to learn about. Fred Chong writes regularly about SaaS. In one of his posts, he has written about Practical Limits for Configurability for SaaS applications.
He defines 3 aspects that define configurability for a hosted solution.

Capability to modify behavior through Code Upload
Supply New business logic
Change business […]

Reading about The Ultimate in Service Automation: No Customer Required , it struck me how this is a wonderful case for employing business rules.
Check this excerpt.
The home washing machine will order its own repairs and the sprinkler system will call you on your cell phone to say the lawn service has broken one of its […]

John Reynolds writes about the Fear of the Unseen in his blog over at java.net. So, this is how he starts.
Many problems that businesses have with software seem to involve visibility. The role that specific software components play within an organization are often hidden, obscured, or just plain forgotten.
and goes on to say this.
I […]

It had been one good break from work after a long time. I went off on a holiday for a week and am now back for good.
This month has been busy with the QuickRules.NET 3.0 SP2 getting released, and all of us in the product team working feverishly on the next major version also.I have […]

I am on a Holiday, and will be back next week.
I will be resuming my regular blogging from next Wednesday or so. The last week has been busy. We released Service Pack 2 for the 3.0 version of QuickRules.NET.

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The DailyWTF is a sexy site, and when I saw this post on The Fudge Factories, I was thinking about how true this must be in so many organizations.
Many businesses are so blind, and many business managers have no clue how the computer systems that is thrust upon them really works and takes regular operational […]

Complex Event Processing (CEP) is an area that I had been thinking about for quite some time. I had been wanting to write about how the Business Rules technology relates to CEP.
If you do not know CEP, here are some useful links.

CEP Articles
CEP Usecases.

There are many use cases discussed in the above post. Let me […]

I was checking this article in Computer Weekly, which argues why Finance teams need to kick the spreadsheet habit .
Here is an excerpt.
Although spreadsheets are cheap, companies pay dearly in the time taken to produce reports. Over half of mid-sized companies take three or more months to complete their annual budget, rising to 68% for […]

Evan Schuman writes in EWeek about Multichannel E-Commerce Inefficiency Can No Longer Be Ignored. Thinking about it, here is what flew across my mind.
Lets look at the problem.

Increasingly, customers are shopping across multiple channels (Web, Store, Telephone)
Customer Databases across channels are not shared.
Integration is a weak point, and in many cases, non-existent.

Now, see this excerpt.
Is […]