Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems

The modern business climate requires smarter systems than most organizations have. Using business rules as a platform for decision management is increasingly recognized as the best way to make your systems smart enough to run your operations. Automating critical operational decisions with business rules, enhancing those rules with data-driven analytics, and managing and adapting those decisions over time is what is needed.

• Which decisions should you focus on to make your systems smarter
• How rules and analytics come together to automate decisions
• How you get to enterprise decision management from where you are today

James Taylor is an expert and published author on the approaches and technologies of decision management. He works with clients to identify and bring to market advanced decision-management solutions that will better solve business needs. James has experience in all aspects of software development, including designing, developing, researching, and marketing application-development technology and platforms. Truly passionate about decision automation, James is one of the leading experts and visionaries in enterprise decision management. He authored Smart (Enough) Systems (Prentice Hall, 2007) with Neil Raden, actively maintains two blogs on business rules and decision automation and frequently comments on subjects ranging from business activity monitoring and business agility to compliance and business process management. James is a highly sought speaker and appears frequently at industry conferences, events, and seminars, as well as in university lecture halls.