Category Archives: Standards

DM Standardization

An initial version of the DMN Tools Catalog

Jacob Feldman from OpenRules kindly enhanced the software that supports out Live Catalogs of Decision Management Tools – read his post.  Check out all updated catalogs. Using this tool we replaced the old catalog “Decision Modeling Tools” with a new … Continue reading

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John Hall explains OMG DMN Development Process

John Hall: The DMN 1.0 Finalization Task Force report was accepted by the OMG Board of Directors on March 24. This means that the DMN 1.0 specification is adopted by OMG and has gone into OMG’s publication cycle. There is … Continue reading

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Process is Important, Decisions are Critical

Tom DeBevoise posted an interesting article about importance of good decisions (DMN) in business process management (BPMN). A quote: “Decisions are instantaneous choices while the process models the actions: a coordination of interactions, over time among participants”. Read more

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BRM articles: Best Practices and Standards

SearchSOA published two articles with quotes from leading BRMS vendors: Best practices for implementing BRM Do BRM standards really matter?

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DMN 1.0 is formally adopted by the OMG Board of Governors

Today the OMG Board of Governors has formally adopted the DMN standard version 1.0. More to follow!

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More Vendors Announced DMN Support

Recently more vendors such as Sparkling Logic and Signavio announced that their tools now support the DMN standard. They joined the initial DMN implementations provided by OpenRules, Sapiens, and a few others. Nick Broom, a well-known DM practitioner and a contributor to the … Continue reading

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Integrating BPMN and DMN

ModernAnalyst.com just published an article about integrating BPMN 2.0 and DMN 1.0. You may read it here.

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DMN 1.0 is an official Standard Now!

On Dec. 12, 2014 the OMG® Architecture Board officially approved the Decision Model & Notation Standard™ (DMN 1.0). While the OMG Revision Task Force is expected to provide additional comments, DMN 1.0 has become an official standard!

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Introduction to Decision Model and Notation (DMN)

Max Tay published an Introduction to Decision Model and Notation that is a good reference document to the major DMN concepts

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Welcome to the Decision Management Community

For practitioners by practitioners! Decision Management (DM) quickly becomes the critical methodological and technological approach to support decision making processes in different industries. Today thousands of business analysts and developers, technology vendors and consultants, decision makers at all enterprise levels become DM practitioners … Continue reading

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