Category Archives: Standards

DM Standardization

“This is the year for DMN”

Posted on April 23, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

A slide with this statement was shown on the last day of just concluded bpmNEXT-2016 at Santa Barbara. Decision Modeling and Decision Management played a significant role at this prestigious conference and experts predict that in the nearest future the technologies behind such standards as BPMN, … Continue reading →

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FICO Now Supports DMN with Free Modeling Tool

Posted on April 13, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

FICO® DMN Modeler supports the OMG DMN standard for describing and modeling repeatable decisions within organizations, and ensuring that decision models are interchangeable across organizations. FICO DMN Modeler is available for free on the FICO® Analytic Cloud. Decision models created in FICO … Continue reading →

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DMN Wish and Don’t Wish Lists

Posted on April 11, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

James Taylor & Jan Purchase proposed two lists for DMN standard: DMN Features to Avoid and Features to Be Added to DMN Here is another DMN Wish List from Bruce Silver What’s is your opinion?

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DMN Interchange Challenge

Posted on March 29, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

One of the main advantages of decision modeling standardization is a potential interchange of decision models between different DMN-compliant tools. DMN 1.1 includes a new interchange format – you may find its description in the Bruce Silver’s book “DMN Method … Continue reading →

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DMN Keynote at RuleML-2016

Posted on March 3, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Bruce Silver will be a keynote speaker at the International Web Rule Symposium RuleML on July 6-9, 2016 at Stony Brook University, New York. His keynote talk will review the structure and key features of DMN 1.1 as a Decision Modeling Language. Read more

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And the Oscar Goes To…

Posted on February 23, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Prof. Jan Vanthienen took time to carefully analyze all 19 solutions submitted for our Jan-2016 Challenge. The results of his analysis are now available in this report. Here is a summary: We want to thank Prof. Vanthienen for his thorough analysis. To … Continue reading →

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How to Scale Business Rules

Posted on February 19, 2016 by jacobfeldman

Why are large business rule sets—those that start large and especially those that become large over time—hard to manage? Why do they often collapse under their own weight, becoming a nightmare of unreliability and an incomprehensible tangle of poorly understood … Continue reading →

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New Book “DMN Method and Style”

Posted on February 3, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Bruce Silver just published a new book “DMN Method and Style: The Practitioner’s Guide to Decision Modeling with Business Rules” available from Amazon.  This is the very first book that not only describes the latest version 1.1 of the DMN standard (not … Continue reading →

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Decision Table Modeling with DMN Training

Posted on January 12, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The 3-part online live training class “Decision Table Modeling with DMN” will be taught on Feb 2-4, 2016 by Prof. Jan Vanthienen, a leading decision table expert. Register now to take advantage of a special Pilot Class pricing – 50% off full price.

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DMN 1.1 Approved!

Posted on December 21, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DMN 1.1 has been approved by the OMG Architecture Board. At this time the final specification is available only to OMG members but it will be released to the public soon. You may preview some changes in this Top 10 List of features … Continue reading →

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