I have been discovering some old articles recently. Here is one where Bruce Silver says Don’t Bank on Business Process Reuse.
Why Business Rules are better than Code
Talking of Business Decisions and Business policies, Reuse is certainly possible and very much in demand. I have written earlier about why Business Rules are a better paradigm than […]

I discovered this nice blog the other day, Enterprise Architecture Management Rants by Alan Inglis. I saw his comment on outsourcing, based on this Deloitte report and wanted to add my comment on this subject.
Here are some of the points raised by the report.

70% cited cost savings as a key driver for outsourcing, but 38% […]

I was browsing through the Java Mobile Applications Website, then came across a 2004 Report on Emerging Business Applications in the Japanese Mobile Internet.
Pretty Interesting stuff. Integrating Mobile Applications into the work fabric unlocks many efficiencies, while also introducing some challenges.
Here are some of the uses of Mobile Technology that I have heard of.

Mobile Applications […]

Now, I was speaking to our Product Architect yesterday. He was saying that we need business rules technology to solve the problems arising out of H-Commerce. Now, what in the world is H-Commerce?
When we think and of business systems, I have noticed that we generally think in terms of computers, software systems, databases, business […]

Art Gillis writes the Bank Systems and Technology Blog. In one of his recent posts, he says that the biggest hindrance to growing any bank is the depersonalization of customers.

It is an open secret that many businesses do next to nothing with all the customer data that they collect. With growing volumes and unprecedented business […]

Eweek has this article about Mercado Software that will without human intervention add and remove products based on inventory and item profit margins.
I found that interesting because this is a clear use case for business rules technology. I am sure that Mercado internally use some kind of Decisioning mechanism, and I would love to understand […]

Ismail Ghalimi has this write up on Where BPM & BI Meet. I wanted to add my 2 cents here because I feel that Business Rules Systems are very much a part of the picture.
As they say, one picture is worth a thousand words, here is my thousand. Click image to enlarge.

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Venkat Devraj has this nice piece on Automating Disaster Recovery Decisioning. The post is essentially about managing database failovers in case of a disaster, and a model for automating the decision processes that follow in such an event.
This is essentially an IT problem, and not really a business rules usecase, but a god read none […]

I started reading reading Kevin Funnel writing about exotic mortgages, and I was wondering why in the world is no one attempting to simplify loans for customers. And, this article that he points to takes such an abyssmal view of the problem. And again, how qualified are loan officers when it comes to explaining […]

I upgraded to WP 2.1. Did not cause too much of trouble I hope.Ran into some trouble with Feedburner.
So, bloglines users and RSS subscribers in general should update the feed once for things to fall into place.

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