An interesting post, as usual. I do agree that what we are seeing right now is a combination of rapid adoption, consolidation of established players, and opportunities created for new players focusing on business problems the evolving ecosystems and applications make solvable.

One key consequence I see of the renewed effervescence is the increased need for the “management” aspects of BRMS, both in terms of operations and in terms of decision performance monitoring and ultimately improvement.

The need I see is for both lower cost of management, and higher quality of monitoring. Combined with what you call the “dispersion” of rules, this promises interesting challenges.