David McCoy

Scenario 1:  Truck marked “Law Enforcement” towing a trailer with no working brake lights.  Stops in front of me and I almost rear-end him.
Scenario 2:  Van marked “Police” races past me and runs a full red light while I stop.  This was a “work detail” van – roadside trash collection with prison labor. No burglary [...]

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When we were all rolling in those filthy-rich, blissful days of Internet summer, all around us, people were saying, “The old rules don’t apply!”  Bricks-and-mortar are dead, clicks are the new currency, the old economy is dead, long live the new economy.  The market only goes up, income only goes up, house prices only go [...]

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I have just put the last comma in a new piece of research that will be out this quarter, entitled: Taking the Mystery Out of Business Rule Representation.  As a hint at what we researched, I am including one of the main graphics: a chart that shows the various rule representation approaches plotted against two [...]

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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 [...]

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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, let [...]

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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 [...]

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We have great guests at our Rotary Club.  Today we had lunch with the Governor of Georgia, Sonny Perdue.  He is a second-term Republican and – as has been reported so often – “the first Republican governor since Reconstruction.”  
He said a lot today.  The one thing I want to focus on was his statement, “you [...]

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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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Jim Sinur, Marc Kerremans and I are about to create a nice, new tutorial presentation on Business Rule Management (BRM).  This is being done for our London BPM conference next February 23 – 25.  We know what we think should go in a BRM tutorial – one that will cover both the concept of BRM [...]

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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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