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Archives for March, 2009


Oracle and Business Rules: Purposed Split Strategies

by Jim Sinur  |  March 5, 2009  |  2 Comments

Back in November, I gave some history of the power vendors attitude towards business rules(see http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2008/11/18/ibm-microsoft-oracle-and-sap-have-bought-business-rule-technology-whats-up-with-that/) After some more detailed interaction with Oracle on the topic, I have some new insights for you. Oracle has an abundance of rule engines, so it might appear that there is no overall business rule strategy. The purposed strategy [...]

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Double Your Pleasure: Application Packages and BPM Together

by Jim Sinur  |  March 3, 2009  |  7 Comments

There is confusion about packaged applications and process management. Application vendors are now claiming that they are BPM players. Platform vendors claim that they have significant intellectual property build on their platforms, so they can support the sequencing of application components/services. The independent BPMS claim that they can easily cross platforms and have a growing [...]

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