Category Archives: Architecture

Enterprise AI is moving toward Decision Systems

Posted on March 26, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Adam DeJans Jr describes how to think about decision systems through the lens of sequential decision problems. “Most operational environments are not one-time optimization problems. They are ongoing processes where decisions must be made repeatedly as the state of the … Continue reading →

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Meaning-Driven Architecture

Posted on March 12, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Jack Jansonius published an article, “When Data Doesn’t Know What It Means.” Many enterprise data systems suffer from a hidden problem: the data no longer “knows” what it means. Over decades, business meaning has been fragmented across processes, rules and … Continue reading →

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From Process-Centric to Decision-Centric Architecture

Posted on March 10, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Stefaan Lambrecht from TRIPOD shared a typical story for insurance operations. Embedding critical business logic within a script inside a process cost the insurer €50 million. This wasn’t caused by careless people or bad intentions. It happened because the decision … Continue reading →

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From Process-Centric to Decision-Centric Architecture

Posted on February 22, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Here is a quote from Stefaan Lambrecht‘s post: “Instead of process-centric orchestration with embedded decisions, design a decision-centric orchestration, driven by a coherent integrated decision model.” In the more detailed article “Decision-Centric Orchestration: The Next Competitive Advantage“, he demonstrates this … Continue reading →

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Moving away from “vibe decisioning”

Posted on January 11, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

David Pidsley, a decision intelligence leader at Gartner, posted today this warning: “GenAI tools instantiate flaws across business decision networks with frightening efficiency when requirements are ambiguous. They will cause growing concerns about uneven decision quality, decision debt (inferred decision … Continue reading →

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“It’s the autonomy, stupid!”

Posted on November 14, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This is the title of Yefim Natis‘s post about agentic computing. “Agents can be the building blocks for composable solutions, and orchestration agents may take on the role of a composer. Autonomy of a software component is not new. The … Continue reading →

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Monoliths vs Microservices

Posted on September 26, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“For a decade, the dominant Silicon Valley mantra has been: monoliths don’t scale; microservices do. Netflix itself helped popularize this philosophy. Its migration from a monolithic Java app to a sprawling microservices ecosystem became the canonical case study taught at conferences and … Continue reading →

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There are no such things as “Process” or “Exception”

Posted on September 6, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Dr. Bas van der Raadt, who was our presenter in January-2023, posted two articles at LinkedIn: Their titles may sound controversial but not for people who build decision-making systems in modern rules-based and event-driven environments.

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DecisionCAMP Monthly Session on Apr 19, 2023

Posted on April 7, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DecisionCAMP Monthly Session “RuleOps: Rule Engines and Kubernetes DevOps” presented by Luca Molteni from Red Hat will be held on Apr 19 at 12:00 pm EST (New York Time). Register for free here. Slides

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Business Rules and Ontology in an Event-Driven Architecture

Posted on January 24, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Bas van der Raadt describes an event-driven business architecture that connects business activities (business rules) with business data (ontology) via business events (state changes of business data). model. He explains how everything comes together and how it helps business people … Continue reading →

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