by David McCoy | January 13, 2009 | Submit a Comment
In an earlier post, I ask for the topics that you would like to see in a Business Rule Management tutorial. Jim Sinur and I have now finished the tutorial and Jim will present it at our upcoming BPM conferences in London and San Diego. The presentation looks really nice! To close the loop, I [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Business Rule Management (BRM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), Business Rule Management (BRM), David McCoy, Gartner
by David McCoy | October 30, 2008 | 2 Comments
Simple question. Are you – vendor or user – writing your own BRE? I think you are. In fact, I’m sure you are. Limited standards-based routes, merely-competitive functionality expectations, shrinking independent BRE market, OEM overkill, specialized integration needs, specific vertical flavoring – all these factor in to the decision. If you are willing to talk, [...]
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by David McCoy | October 29, 2008 | Submit a Comment
Oracle is buying another Business Rule Engine vendor. Surprised? If you’e a client of Gartner, you should have seen this coming. Jim Sinur is at the Business Rules Forum tonight and he will be speaking tomorrow. He’s working on the research angle which, of course, you will soon see on www.gartner.com.. I have to remind [...]
Category: Business Rule Management (BRM) Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Tags: Business Rule Management (BRM), David McCoy, Gartner
by David McCoy | October 21, 2008 | 2 Comments
Should it be “business rule engine” or “business rules engine?” Should “rule” be singular or plural? “Should be” and “is” are two different concepts. Take a look at the search results below. The inconsistent use of both the plural and the singular abounds. Why should “business rules management” (plural) dominate while “business rule management system” [...]
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by David McCoy | October 13, 2008 | 3 Comments
In Q1 2008, Jim Sinur and I will release research on the different approaches to business rule representation. This is going to be a fun research effort – lots of theory, lots of hands-on testing. This is also a misunderstood area. For instance, some users think that a natural-language (NL) approach to rule representation is [...]
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by David McCoy | October 1, 2008 | Submit a Comment
Have you looked at the number of open source business rule engines out there? Of course, everyone knows about JBoss, but there is a slew of others. Many are JSR-94-based engines that have been released into the ether. There are some .NET engines too. If you are using one of the lesser-known engines – and [...]
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by David McCoy | September 27, 2008 | Submit a Comment
I am seeing a bit of movement around OMG’s SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules). Jim Sinur and I are meeting in Phoenix next week to discuss this and other standards that relate to business rules. This movement – within the domain of business rules – could be noise, or it could be [...]
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by David McCoy | September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
JSR 94, RuleML, SBVR… there sure are a lot of business-rule-related standards and specifications out there. One specification (JSR 94) is fairly-well supported, but does it matter? And what about the others? Aren’t they a bit lonely and feeling neglected? Now consider that Gartner research has been warning of consolidation of the independent business rules market since late 2005, when RulesPower [...]
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