Over the years I have interviewed many rule authors and found they come in a lot of different packages. I tend to group them into three categories: The Casual Rule Author This is one of my favorites and is the focus of InRule’s Web Authoring initiative. This person...
Last week a customer expressed several questions about their new project for their business rules engine. The more we dug into their problems, the more I realized they were suffering from basic yet enduring challenges every new rule project faces. Essentially, it’s...
Recently I explored some of the decision management touch points with Hadoop. The most obvious was the classic ETL scenario where folks (analysts and data scientists) explore batch scenarios across large datasets—really big ones. While there are so many ways for our...
Last year members of the InRule Design team interviewed business users about their preferences for authoring rules generally. Many pointed to the Decision Table as their go-to artifact for lots of reasons. It’s compact, reduces edits across many similar rules (when...
While the cloud continues to dramatically change the landscape of middleware and service delivery, there remains a more subtle shift in the way we think about data and it’s lifecycle. Data changes over time. In the end, we are left with a quandry. What factors...
