Category Archives: Decision Models

Rolando’s Tales from the Rule Trenches

Posted on June 3, 2019 by jacobfeldman

Rolando Hernandez, a highly experienced business rules consultant,  shares his “True Tales from the Trenches“.  Here is a monologue of the decision table from his first tale “A Rule is Born“: “If only someone had tested all the possible combinations … Continue reading →

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What is a ‘Decision’?

Posted on March 13, 2019 by drbobmoore

Ron Ross, Jacob and I have recently been discussing the March DMC Challenge. In his submission Ron suggests the challenge is a ‘rules problem’ not a ‘decision problem’ and quite reasonably asked me for my definition of a ‘decision’ when … Continue reading →

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Decision Management: What It Is and Why You Need It

Posted on February 20, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Today Roy Schulte from Gartner ran the webinar “Decision Management: What It Is and Why You Need It” describing the state of the art in decision management and offering guidance on how to get started. Here are a few slides:

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Data Decisioning

Posted on February 3, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Data Decisioning was recently founded by Peter Schooff and John Morris, two veterans with decades of success in enterprise technology. Why? “What’s more important than data to today’s enterprise? The decisions a company makes based on that data will determine their success … Continue reading →

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Launch of Dataset Search

Posted on September 6, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Google launched Dataset Search, which can help researchers, scientists, and others around the world find open datasets! Dataset Search lets you find datasets wherever they’re hosted, whether it’s a publisher’s site, a digital library, or an author’s personal web page. The … Continue reading →

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How to Optimally Allocate “Bribe” Money

Posted on August 9, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Tallys Yunes published an Excel-based optimization model that calculates the likelihood that certain agents will perform a given action that benefits you. Link Below are a few examples:

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Can AI build a decision model for you?

Posted on July 2, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

A recent TechRepublic article “Now AI can write code for you” reported that Rice University researchers created an application called BAYOU that uses deep learning to write code for programmers. While the technology is in its infancy, it represents a major … Continue reading →

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Solutions for Apr-2018 Challenge

Posted on May 3, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

So far we received 3 solutions for our Apr-2018 Challenge “Up-Selling Rules”: DT5GL,  Corticon, and OpenRules. While the decision model is simple, it contains two decision tables that should be executed in a certain order: first define a customer profile and only then offer new products. … Continue reading →

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Decision as a Service (DaaS) by Trisotech

Posted on April 19, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Denis Gagné presented the latest version of Trisotech DMN Modeler at bpmNEXT-2018 as a complete modeling environment for DMN including execution, testing, searching, deployment as a decision service, collaboration, and more. It includes a Centralized Dictionary that is actually an … Continue reading →

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DMN Cookbook

Posted on April 17, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Bruce Silver and Edson Tirelli just published a new DMN book available from Amazon. You may download (for free) many Decision Models described in the book and import/modify/execute them using Trisotech DMN Modeler.

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