Building a Custom Scheduler with OpenRules and JSR-331
One of the largest Japanese telecom company is successfully using OpenRules being integrated with a BPM product produced by our partner Intra-Mart. Last month this customer asked…
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Decision Management
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Dealing With Unknown Data
DMCommunity.org published an interesting challenge “Greeting a Customer with Unknown Data” that deals with the real-world decision modeling issue: your decision model has to…
Developing Custom Decision Modeling Languages with Enhanced DMN
The modern Business Rules and Decision Management Systems help users to move business logic from a code to business rules controlled by subject matter experts (not developers). In…
Business Rules and Tacit Knowledge
Listening several recent presentations of Pragmatic Dave Thomas (see this and this), I cannot help getting back to the fundamental decision modeling problem: Rules vs. Tacit…
Decision Models: Finding Alternative and Optimal Decisions
People frequently assume that a good, consistent decision model should produce one and only one decision (solution) for any valid input. However, in real-world applications we…
“Monkey Business” Analyzed
I decided to add the decision model "Monkey Business" to our new What-If Analyzer. It brought several considerations missed by other solutions. In this post I will discuss my…
bpmNEXT 2016
This year OpenRules will participate in the bpmNEXT 2016 that will take place at Santa Barbara, CA on April 19-21, 2016. This is a very selective conference that does not allow…
Decision Model for Vacation Days Calculation
This month DMCommunity.org asked to present the best design of the notorious decision tables offered by Prof. Jan Vanthienen. It should implement the following business logic:
OpenRules 6.3.4 Introduces What-If Analyzer of Decision Models
On December 28, 2015 we published a new OpenRules release 6.3.4 that introduces What-If Analyzer, the first tool of this type in the Decision Management domain. Its main purpose…
Automatically Learned Business Rules: Should We Understand Them?
Question: Should we worry that we’re building systems whose increasingly accurate decisions are based on incomprehensible foundations? I’ve just posted an article with the same…
“Old” and “New” Business Rules Approaches
The recent LinkedIn discussion "What rules representation to choose for which audience?" came to the question about business analysts handing their business rules written in plain…
Don’t Program a System, Educate It!
Modern decision management techniques enable business decisions by supporting a path from data to decisions and actions. Wherever people use stand-alone Business Rules, Complex…