Everything Decision Management, Technically Speaking

Decision Management Innovation is Cool

Carole-Ann — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:27:28 +0000

We are very proud that Gartner named Sparkling Logic a Cool Vendor in the Business Process Management category, this year. Feel free to check out the report for more details on why Jim Sinur and team believe we are innovative, impactful and intriguing. You can also check our press release. This is obviously a milestone [...]

Rete Algorithm Demystified! — Part 3

Carole-Ann — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:00:46 +0000

The Rete Algorithm Demystified blog series attracted a huge crowd. I want to thank you for your readership! Following the popular demand, let me continue on the series and add a few words on the latest and greatest Rete-NT. What’s new? Well, this is where I can’t say much without violating Charles’s trade secrets… Sorry! So [...]

What is wrong with OR in business rules?

Carole-Ann — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:57:36 +0000

Myth or Reality? Is it bad to use OR-ed conditions in Business rules? A friend of mine pinged me last week to get my recommendation on the usage of OR-ed conditions. There is actually a good technical reason why they should not be used… and a few semantic arguments too… Other than that, I am [...]

Data versus Expertise Dilemma

Carole-Ann — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:24:01 +0000

In the decade (or two) I have spent in Decision Management, and Artificial Intelligence at large, I have seen first-hand the war raging between knowledge engineers and data scientists. Each defending its approach to supporting ultimately better decisions. So what is more valuable? Insight from data? Or knowledge from the expert? Mike Loukides wrote a [...]

DecisionStats – Predictive Models Ain’t Easy to Deploy

Carole-Ann — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:01:18 +0000

One of my articles was published on the DecisionStats blog. Thanks, Ajay! You can read it there. This article highlights the main issues that Decision Management practitioners are facing when deploying Predictive Models with their Business Rules. For your convenience, here it is: Decision Management is about combining predictive models and business rules to automate [...]

Intelligence in the Cloud

Carole-Ann — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:00:45 +0000

The Cloud is one of the top priorities for most CIOs. They want to better understand the risk and the opportunities. This disruptive technology is forcing both technologists and business owners to think outside the box, to take real advantage of the “new way” of doing things. Being Sparkling Logic, we have been thinking pretty [...]

Sparkling Intelligence Leak

Carole-Ann — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:03:45 +0000

Some of you have asked us about our newsletter and how to get on it… We have added the link here in the blog for your convenience. As a subscriber, you get access to past issues too. The other top question we were asked was about the pretty pictures, especially the very last one. We [...]

The Fraud Game

Carole-Ann — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:45:15 +0000

Fraud has been on the rise lately with some recent high-profile cases like the Zappos leak a couple of weeks ago. The systems are unfortunately the target of fraudsters on all possible fronts: Origination or on-boarding: Can I trust this individual to do business with? Transactions or claims: Should I let it go through? Investigation: Is [...]

Capturing Business Rules for Medical Treatment Recommendation

Carole-Ann — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:00:32 +0000

Our friend Jacob contributed a sample of medical rules to the DMN (Decision Model Notation) standardization effort at OMG. He encouraged me to show how those business rules would look like in our Sparkling Logic SMARTS Decision Management tool. In this demo, you will see how I created the entire project from scratch, in a [...]

Decision Management Community is relocating

Carole-Ann — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:00:58 +0000

You may have joined us from time to time in the Sparkling Logic Community. Despite its name, the community has been a vendor neutral place for experts in the industry to comment on technology or discipline topics. We have enjoyed a good run on this social platform but we have decided to relocate… We are [...]

Carole-Ann’s Predictions for 2015!

Carole-Ann — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:46:43 +0000

Yes, you have read the title correctly. I thought about making predictions for 2012 but my head tends to be far more in the future than I care to admit… So let me share my vision for Decision Management in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015! Prediction #1: Business Users Rule! I believe that Business Users [...]

2011 TechOnDec Post of the Year

Carole-Ann — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0000

As we are still reflecting on 2011, Carlos and I wanted to continue with the tradition we started last year. We would like to nominate our Number One Blog Post for 2011… And the winner is… Our RETE Series: Part 1, answer and Part 2! This validates the regain of interest we have all seen for Artificial Intelligence this [...]

4 tips to simplify your business rules

Carole-Ann — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:24:01 +0000

It is inevitable… Business Rules add up over time… How many rules do you have per project? hundreds? Thousands? We have seen up to 1.2 million of rules in a project! Maintaining such volumes of rules can be tricky to say the least. We have been thinking about the different ways you can keep those [...]

Decision Management Rumors Confirmed

Carole-Ann — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:42:44 +0000

Did you guess right on the acquisition rumors that were spreading at BBC 2011 this year? Corticon announced today its acquisition by Progress software. One more independent vendors ends up in the heart of a BPM and more platform. This is a great validation for BRMS technology. You can’t really fit all decisioning logic into [...]

Visual Logic: I want Handrails, not Handcuffs!

Carole-Ann — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:30:57 +0000

When you start a business rules project, do you want to spend your time figuring out the right design? or do you want to focus on the business decision? Let me illustrate. When I was at BBC 2011 in Fort Lauderdale, I met a gentleman by the name of Russell. As we talked about this [...]