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 […]

I was writing about Loan Processes, Service Orientation and Business Rules yesterday, when I remembered the write-up on the MSDN Architecture Site on an Architecture for a Loan Origination System.
This article explains in some detail about Loan Origination Systems, and explains how you can use the MS Technologies stack to implement a solution. Please read […]

This is the final post in the Business Rules and the SDLC series.Earlier posts in this series

Business Rules and Software Requirements
Business Rules and Application Design
Introducing the Business Rules Development Cycle
Business Rules and Testing

I have to assert that the real value of adopting Business Rules Technology is realized in the maintenance phase of an application.
This by […]

This is the fourth post in the Business Rules and the SDLC series.I have covered the following till now.

Business Rules and Software Requirements
Business Rules and Application Design
Introducing the Business Rules Development Cycle

The Purpose of Business Rules Testing
Now, the purpose of testing business rules is two fold!
Goal No 1
Are my business rules written the way I […]

I was getting one of my developers today to read through some VB code that one of our sales guys wanted deciphered. The task was to read a VB class, extract the business rules, business terms out of that class, then model the rules it using QuickRules.NET.
I was watching how long it took for my […]

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 […]

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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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 […]

I was reading The Death of Computing and thinking about it, when I came across Too Much Code. Reading these two, I was reminded of The Problem with Programming.
Now, I have earlier written about how you can beat complexity using business rules and speeding up your projects.
Now, I would be speaking only of business application […]