OMG has posted the (latest) agenda for next month’s Decision Modeling information day – subject to change only if any other vendors sign up to show off their approaches to decision modeling. So far the agenda looks quite balanced:
- methodologies and notations: chiefly these are
- Prof Jan Vanthienen (“Mr Decision Table”) and
- Knowledge Partners Inc (authors of the book “The Decision Model”)
- vendors and tools: a good spead of capabilities here (updated!):
- New Wisdom covering the repository of what we used to call “source rules” – the business texts for terms and facts as well as decisions
- IBM Ilog, as the most successful BRMS tool around today, chiefly supporting the Websphere SOA model
- TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager, supporting the real-time decisioning and CEP market
- OpenRules, and using Microsoft Office tools for decision management
- Sapiens, covering their tooling for decision modelling
Keynote is being given by James Taylor (co-author of “Smart Enough Systems”) who also promises to give his insights into what decision modeling is all about.
This is all by the way of introducing not only the ideas of decision modeling, but a proposed standard (DMN) in this space, to help enterprises like Wells Fargo and others who use multiple decision table, model and execution environments and want to improve efficiencies and re-use through standardised notations etc.
Should be an interesting session in an interesting week: the day after this the EPTS Virtual Symposium is taking place at the same location…
