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 […]

I missed this great writeup on Why Workflow Sucks, by Jon Pyke. I am glad that I discovered it today.
Now, the problem is obvious. Things happen in this world based on expert judgment. But, I always am left with this strange feeling when I see Workflow & BPM proponents talk of […]

Some of the interesting stories that I get to hear from our sales is about the kinds of problems faced by small and growing businesses.YASU itself is a growing company, and I can understand the pains.
Some days back I came across this story about a small financial services startup. The organization is small, and therefore […]

Yesterday it was the 90-10 rule, today it is the Business Rules and the 80-20 rule of process automation.
Now, in Dispelling the The “Fully Automated” Myth - Take 2, I had talked about why organizations should try and automate maybe up to 99-100% of those steps in their business processes that involve business decisioning based […]

Pretty interesting post, this one on Dispelling the Fully Automated Myth.
The conclusion that the author comes to in this post is this
So, going back to my 90/10 example. Efforts to make the 10% (manual work) more efficient will yield significantly more payback than trying to squeeze another percent out of the 90% (automated work). There […]

BRF 2006 will be in Washington D.C between Nov 5-9. YASU will have a booth and we will be there in full force.
We also have 2 speaker slots at the Conference this time. Here are the schedules
Wednesday, Nov 8 2006 ( 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM)

Topic: Achieving 95%+ Automation Levels in […]

One question that keeps popping up now and often is this.
What are the different Integration Scenarios for a BRMS with WWF?
Let me try and summarize all those that I can think of. Well, this is going to get technical.
A Little Background
A workflow is a set of Activities (or actions or tasks). The Activities can execute […]

This report on ebizq started me thinking on the challenges for the modern day IT Enabled Enterprise.Some of these are:

Enterprises need to extract as much as they can from their existing IT investments.
Business Policy & decisioning MUST be IT enabled for business agility & responsiveness
Decision makers MUST control and have visibility into the […]

I have been getting all these questions about the Windows Workflow Foundation from both our Sales Team and from some of our Customers.
The two big questions have been these

What is the Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) ?
Why should you use a BRMS, like QuickRules.NET instead of the Rule Engine bundled with WWF?

WWF Intro

WWF is […]