Visual Logic and Business Rules: a Picture is worth 1,000 Words!
It all started with Spaghetti… in the late 90′s, Business Rules technology started to become popular based on the premise…
The Quiet-Eye Period
In Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We…
Customer Data Integration – Separating the Hype from the Reality
There is a lot of buzz in the industry about the emerging class of customer data integration software that businesses…
Black Swans Causing a Rethink on Global Supply Chains?
A fair percentage of academicians and corporate supply chain experts agree that running supply chains “lean and mean” with just…
Digital data explosion highlights need for new-age Database and Business Intelligence technologies
It’s borderline alarming. But most definitely fascinating. The growth of digital data worldwide is accelerating at an unprecedented, virtually incomprehensible…
Leveraging Customer Data to Drive Business Decisions
Interesting panel with folks from the Venetian, Marriott and Nextag discussing customer intelligence. First they were asked about their use…
Forecasting Lessons from Heathrow’s Snowpocalypse
As evidenced by lessons learned from the Heathrow Winter Resilience Inquiry, when it comes to accurately forecasting future events, it’s…
Decision Tables in JBoss Drools getting an update
The JBoss Drools team sent me a link to a screencam of their latest work on web-based decision tables and…
First Look – SAS/OR
I have been doing more thinking about optimization recently and thought I should get caught up with the OR (Operations…