Monthly Archives: August 2019

How Do Your Decision Microservices Communicate?

Posted on August 29, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

After you deploy your business decision models as microservices, you need to organize your inter-service communication.  Usually, your decision microservices are stateless. But what if they need to maintain some state? What if they updated values and those values got … Continue reading →

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Challenge Sep-2019 “Crack the Code”

Posted on August 26, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

While we are still waiting for the first solution for our Aug-2019 Challenge “Stateful Decisioning“, we’ve just announced a fun Challenge for Sep-2019 “Crack the Code“. Try it with any tool or just your common sense. Link

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QnA Panel “Ask a Vendor” at DecisionCAMP

Posted on August 22, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DecisionCAMP will run a QnA Panel “Ask a Vendor” on Sep. 18 at 17:00 – see schedule. The presenting vendors will be given 5 minutes each to briefly describe their latest achievements, next important moves, and answer questions from the … Continue reading →

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New Gartner IaaS Magic Quadrant

Posted on August 20, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

On July 19 Gartner published its latest “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide“. AWS is being recognized as the Leader for 9th consecutive year following Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Oracle, and IBM. The report describes their offerings with … Continue reading →

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DeepMind’s Losses and the Future of AI

Posted on August 14, 2019 by jacobfeldman

Wired just published an article that analyzes  how the recent DeepMind’s losses will affect AI in general. “The investment community notices significant losses; if DeepMind’s losses were to continue to roughly double each year, even Alphabet might eventually feel compelled … Continue reading →

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Business Decision Models are moving to Serverless World

Posted on August 12, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In the new cloud-based world, the decision-making applications have new requirements to operational decision services. The traditional monolithic services are being replaced by microservices that requires high availability, security, and super-fast performance. The customers are not satisfied anymore with a relatively … Continue reading →

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IBM Research launches explainable AI toolkit

Posted on August 10, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

IBM Research introduced AI Explainability 360, an open source collection of state-of-the-art algorithms that use a range of techniques to explain AI model decision-making. “That’s fundamentally important, because we know people in organizations will not use or deploy AI technologies … Continue reading →

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Flash Points: Business Rules, Events, and Integrity

Posted on August 6, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Ron Ross just published “Flash Points: Business Rules, Events, and Integrity“: “Flash points are the specific events when a rule needs to be evaluated based only on the semantics of the rule itself. For a behavioral business rule, flash points … Continue reading →

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Opinion: Traditional Rule Engines Outlived their Usefulness

Posted on August 5, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This LinkedIn article “How Traditional Rules Engines Stifle Innovation” states: “AI and advanced analytics are key to life insurance innovation. While the industry tries to make use of these technologies, the insurance application continues to play a central role in … Continue reading →

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Neil Raden: “Before the world went analytics crazy…”

Posted on August 4, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Neil Raden: I’m re-posting an article I published six months ago about Process Intelligence a.k.a. Process Mining. I’ve been getting a lot of questions about this lately. “Is Process Intelligence (Mining) a distinct discipline from analytics?” Link 

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