Just to let all you guys know that I will be presenting a 30 minute session on “Architecting thin-BLL applications using Open-ESB and BRMS” at the NetBeans day [Day 0 of the JavaOne conference] this year. If you are in the San Francisco area on May 7th and have some free time, please feel free […]
Whew! Its been a while since I’ve posted anything up here…
My apologies for the unscheduled break in the blog - it seems to me that, no matter how many times I’ve relocated (9 times in the last 15 years!!), it just does not seem to get any easier
Getting the basic stuff up and […]
January 8, 2007 – 5:01 pm
I had posted a while back on the “Business Agility Primer” - I’d promised that I want to get it done and over with by 15th Jan… So, I have been preparing a lot of material, etc. for the primer series - things like the capabilities of BRE / BRMS, BPM, ESB, BI, ECM / […]
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December 19, 2006 – 6:13 pm
One of my previous posts, “Why are Business Rules Management Systems considered ONLY server-side, and not client-side, technology?” got a response with an interesting use-case for business rules technology from Charles Young.
That comment got me to investigate and see if the QuickRules BRMS [from YASU Technologies] has been deployed and used in similar situations. I […]
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December 14, 2006 – 1:29 pm
Apparently, Sarbanes-Oxley is forcing the actuaries and the techies to collaborate and develop processes for conducting financial calculations. The senior members of both the IT and the Actuary departments from the top 30 insurance companies got together to brainstorm for ideas on how best to achieve this - you can read about it here…
Essentially, what […]
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December 13, 2006 – 5:18 pm
I’ve been reading a lot of articles / series of articles from a lot of people in recent weeks focusing on what agility means, what are the types of business rules, what decision automation means, and how to find out if you are ready for becoming agile in some way or the other, the business […]
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December 13, 2006 – 1:29 pm
One of the things I’ve noticed is that most people assume that BPM, BI, and BRMS technologies are essentially “server-side” technologies. Something in the term “business” seems to be conjuring up visions of multi-processor server boxes linked to a SAN with huge databases operating on RAIDs somewhere in that mix…
I’ve been continuously surprised by […]
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December 12, 2006 – 3:59 pm
I came across the text of the speech given by Richard Ward, the CEO of Lloyds on improving customer service processes…. interesting read about what customers want, what they are getting, and how to bridge the gap.
What are Lloyd’s customers saying they need from insurance companies?
“The key areas customers want us to improve remain: speed […]
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Also posted in BRMS, BRE, Business Rules Engines, Business Rules Management Systems, Insurance, Claim, Underwriting, Business Automation, Compliance, Business Process Management, Workflow, Business Intelligence, BPM, BI
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December 11, 2006 – 5:36 pm
Came across the “Where to start with use cases” blog post by Seilevel - it talks about how to decompose a proposed IT system into manageable chunks [process decomposition] that can be given off to the architects / leads / programmers for further development.
This post by Kushal on the problems with too much process decomposition […]
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Also posted in BRMS, BRE, Business Rules Engines, Business Rules Management Systems, Business Automation, Business Process Management, Business Intelligence, BPM, BI, Requirements, Use cases
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December 7, 2006 – 6:31 pm
Philippe’s “best practices” list for developing Insurance Products… Notice the points he makes on how technology can be used to help insurance companies beat the street…
Separation of “products” from “process” - not hard coding the product in a legacy system
Ensuring completeness: Insurance products are NOT simply pricing, but also include underwriting policies, information gathering questionnaires, […]
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