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 […]

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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I was reading Todd Biske as he writes on Service Delivery in a S.O.A. The point that I liked was when he says that the Service in SOA is the delivered Service & not Service as in Web Service.
I agree with this thought process so very much. Most of the time, I believe, we lose […]

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 […]

This is one great article that walks you through all the different WS-* standards, and what you should know to build inter operable Web Services.
Web Services Specifications and SOA Interoperability
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Does Technology make Managers lazy?
Is SOA the Magic potion that business need to drink?

Both and neither, is what I would say.One interesting quote that the first post provides is this.
I once spoke with a consultant who told me about working with the British military. Years ago, if you were becoming an officer, you were sent […]

It is Business, stupid !
That is not my line , but indicated by Joe McKendrick from SOA in Action. He  says that the First Order of Business in SOA Planning is, Well, Business
I liked the way he ends his post,
The key factor here is that the business needs to be in the driver's seat […]