Michael Krigsman reports some 40 IT Failures caused by Software Bugs from the Software QA Test Resource Center.
What struck me immediately were the following

Many of these failures were the result of “software taking bad Decisions”.
It took a huge effort in some cases to rectify the total damage, to customers specifically
It requires a […]

This is my final post in this series.In part 1, I introduced Decision Services, in part 2, I talked about the challenges in implementing Decision Services.
In this post, I will attempt to come up with a set of capabilities that you need to aim to have when using rule driven Decision Services
The SOA Life Cycle
Before […]

In this post, I will attempt to cover the implementation landscape including actors and roles, technologies and skill sets. I will attempt to identify the typical challenges that might arise when using rule driven Decision Services in an SOA.
A little Background
Lets take the example of a Pricing Service in a Loan Process. A Pricing Service […]

A perfectly valid question, and Karthik Hariharan asks this question and further discusses it here. Here is his argument in effect.
Development teams often have to write custom wrappers for their platform
Mapping English sentences to objects can often become a nightmare that requires a dedicated team of professionals whose sole purpose is to make sure […]

How do Business Rules Technology fit into the SDLC Life Cycle? I have been talking about this recently in my team, here is what I have been thinking & talking about.
Before I begin, here is a model of a generic SDLC process.

Explanation is needed as to how Business Rules will fit into diferent stages […]

I was reading the Cadillac Story in Business Week, and I thought this was such a good usecase for explaining the power of the Business Rules Technology & approach.
Here is the gist of the story for those in a hurry! Excerpt from Business Week.
Car companies have for years kept goodwill funds for dealers to draw […]

Edwin has this post on How to write a Program in 2 Steps . He suggests the following 2 simple steps to write a business program.

Design and implement the programming language which would be best for solving the problem.
Write the program in the language you’ve just implemented.

Now, that is a suggestion that will certainly […]

Nick Malik declares victory for Dependency Injection in the battle of Rules Engines vs. Dependency Injection. Well, not so fast, Nick.
Nick argues that rules like UI form validation rules, error handling rules, routing rules in a process are better handled in code using a Dependency Injection Pattern, and not using a rule engine. […]

Joe Mckendrick asks Is EDA the ‘new’ SOA ?.I was thinking about what SOA is and what is EDA. Now this is what I think.
SOA >> A architectural model where systems are modeled as Service Providers and Service Consumers. Decoupling is provided for because the Service Providers and Service Consumers use the Service Definition […]

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 […]