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The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success

Managing business rules gives you control over high volume operational decisions and delivers unprecedented agility. Based on decades of experience developing decision management applications, FICO has developed 11 steps to help you make the most of business rules. These include: Picking the right applications. Business rules are...

Tags: FICO, Business Rule

White papers 2009-09-01

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeGood PostIn those days i was the Manager of Technical Services and Computer Operations and remember not too fondly the innumerable meetings, courses, seminars required to implement changes. The technique "Structured or Top-down programming" was used to insure data integrity when program...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, Y2K, IS-department, data-processing, IBM mainframe, business rule, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Are vendors emphasizing the wrong approach to SOA reuse?

Reuse has been considered in many circles to be the tangible core value driver that propels SOA through the business suite. Large vendors swear by it. (Example -- IBM is a big proponent of the reuse paradigm for SOA.) Write once, use many times, right? However, not...

Tags: SOA, Business Rule, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Introduction to Business Rules: Taking Advantage of Business Rules Management Systems

Business rules have existed since companies started automating business processes using software applications. Traditionally, they have been buried deep inside the application in some procedural programming language. As business rules matured, business users tried to control and manage these rules without directly having to deal with IT, which hasn't always...

Tags: Business Rule

White papers 2008-02-05

Application interfaces

Application interfacesMurphy... You really need to get some educationwhy do you [b]always[/b] forget [u]testing [/u]an application? :'( Have a look here: http://www.bcs.org/ (general site, with links to specific area's)http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.5732 Testing page The way you're developping an application in this article is a best bad practice example.The rest is interesting though......

Tags: Databases, SQL, DBMS, Use Case, business rule, specification

Discussion threads 2006-06-08

IT Commandment: Thou shalt loosely couple

IT Commandment: Thou shalt loosely coupleBusiness rules and the commandmentsLove the commandments. Several seem to me to point towards the use of business rules as a technology:Thou shalt put thy users first, above all else [Business rules allows users to control the system themselves not just have IT do it...

Tags: business rule, information technology, IT Commandment, Business Rules

Discussion threads 2006-04-10

SEC questions phone companies' math

SEC questions phone companies' mathcaused by "Business Rule Butterfly-Effects"This is actually a deceptively difficult problem for any business to answer. The key issue is that businesses use complex $1M software that use business rules to find & match records based on name, address, and other fields. Attempts to...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Business Rule Butterfly-Effects, Business Rule, phone company, SEC, phone

Discussion threads 2004-07-03

Analysts wary after Verizon goofs numbers

Analysts wary after Verizon goofs numbersMicrosoft does same thing to count market shareOne day soon we'll wake up and 50% will be running Linux.."Business Rule Butterfly-Effects" are the issueThis is actually a deceptively difficult problem for any business to answer. The key issue is that businesses use complex $1M...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, Business Rule Butterfly-Effects, Business Rule, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-07-03

Additional Resources

Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency

Spoken like someone without a clueBut then again, what can be expected from trolls anymore?Originality?Security & AccessGrant the LEAST amount of access for the end user.DENY then ALLOW, why would you open up Port 80 to the world if you only do business in the United States or local area...

Tags: agency, cloud provider, legality, data centre, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

FCC to review regulatory and legal impacts to cloud services and identity management

FCC Overstepping its authority againWhy do we as a society, blindly ignore when the government overreaches its authority?The FCC only has authority to regulate the airwaves.The Internet and related technologies have nothing to do with the FCC, and they have no authority in this area.We need to wake up, people....

Tags: Federal government, Big Government, identity management, FCC, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?

So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Microsoft admits its GPL violation; will reissue Windows 7 tool under open-source license

Tar and feather them nt ;-)ntYeah - they made good on GPL2 - tar them anyway!It's Microsoft - hurt them even when they do admit their errors and make good on them!Seriously Dude, see a shrink!A tad serious?Lighten up a bit - a shrink? I will put my mental health...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, tool, Microsoft Windows 7, open source, Microsoft Corp., GPL

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1

Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...

Tags: Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, payroll solutions, H1N1 flu, insurance, life insurance, health insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Microsoft delivers new Zune HD games; Twitter and Facebook still to come

RE: Microsoft delivers new Zune HD games; Twitter and Facebook still to comOH BOYY!! CHECKERS??!! OMFG AWESOME!!Message has been deleted.can't you sample tonnes of music for free on radio?broadcast or on internet radio if you want to listen to very specific song.. or just sample for free via internet downloads.....

Tags: Twitter Inc., Facebook, pickup truck, Microsoft Zune, flaw, Apple iTunes, Microsoft Corp., radio, Apple iTunes Music Store, Apple Inc., game

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy

The cart before the horse?With low skilled/educated labor and low negative savings rate, I don't think the ingredients for a fundamental rebound exist in the US. I guess Wall Street would like to continue to be able to fleece us, but hopefully, being taken once is enough for most investors....

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, economic destruction, same policy, IPO, carbon tax, USSR, socialist

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Corner of Bar vs Corner of Library: The Twitter Conundrum

On the eve of a couple of international Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, I'm revisiting in this post a core concept about the fundamental dichotomy of behavioral patterns around marketing people and business operations people. As a general rule the people running the strategy and...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Marketing Research, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Diabetes can be kept at bay

move your ass, lazy americanswalk, run, practice sports and you won't get diabetes.except type I that is geneticThey don't have the incentives ...when they keep getting free handouts that progressives love so much from the big fat@ss government. Free health care, free lunch, free everything and then of course they...

Tags: diabetes, Wall St., progressive, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Smartphone wars; one platform will never rule them all

UbuntuThere are enough potential customers out there, and enough open source software available for potential OS builders that you don't really need that much market share to remain vital.Mac OS has only a fraction of the entire computer market and Ubuntu only has a fraction of Mac OS's market share....

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Operating systems, Smartphone, phone, smart phone, Apple Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

New LoroBot ransomware encrypts files, demands $100 for decryption

You forgot to mention....which OSs it affects! Or is it based on something multi-platform like Java?Look at the bigger size version of the screenshot, it's all in thereA lot of russian characters and...YES, you guessed it right, the word "windows" prominently displayed in red in the title.Who would ever thought...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, LoroBot, decryption, malware

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

The maintenance renewal landscape

Been doing this for years.Work for a non-profit, so unless its mission critical or has a high cost of replacement... its not going to get renewed.I think everyone should live by this rule. If they did, software maintenance would be much cheaper!SAP, Oracle very Different on Dependence on MaintenanceI'll...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Operational accounting, cloud computing, SAP AG, Oracle Corp., SaaS Model, revenue, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-23