Who will win? Spring Boot or Quarkus

Posted on January 12, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DZone published the article “Microservices: Quarkus vs. Spring Boot“: “Nowadays, with the Microservice Architecture, perhaps it does not make sense anymore, nor any advantage, build something multi-platform (interpreted) for something that will always run on the same place and platform (the Docker Container — Linux environment). Portability is now less relevant (maybe more than ever), those extra level of abstraction is not important. Having said that, let’s perform a simple and raw comparison between two alternatives to generate Microservices in Java: the very well-known Spring Boot and the not so very well-know (yet) Quarkus.” Link Continue reading →

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Movie industry embracing AI

Posted on January 10, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Warner Bros. has become the latest studio to publicly embrace artificial intelligence. The movie division has signed a deal with Cinelytic to use the latter’s AI-driven project management system that was launched last year. Under the new deal, Warners will leverage the system’s comprehensive data and predictive analytics to guide decision-making at the greenlight stage. The integrated online platform can assess the value of a star in any territory and how much a film is expected to make in theaters and on other ancillary streams. Link1 Link2

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BI Vendors failed to replace Spreadsheets

Posted on January 8, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Toolbox published an article that, in particular, states: “Once viewed in the dashboard, business users wants to move that data to a spreadsheet. For most of the 2000s, BI vendors fought this desire from business users. BI vendors developed and marketed options that replaced spreadsheets. Fortunately, in the past decade, BI vendors have given up the fight, and BI solutions now work well with typical spreadsheet applications. They work so well that many people skip the BI vendor’s fancy interface or web application in favor of just getting data right into their spreadsheets. For all the glitz and appeal of the BI application interface, getting data straight into the spreadsheet is an excellent self-service interface for business users.“

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Learning to Learn

Posted on January 4, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We humans have the unique ability to learn from any situation or surrounding. We adapt our learning. We can figure out how we can learn. To acquire this kind of flexibility in learning, AI needs to have an effective and efficient way to learn about the learning process. The “learning to learn” problem (or Meta-Learning) appeared when technologists are trying to solve the exponential increase in computing power, as AI started to infer from data with increasing complexity. Read more

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How is Java Doing?

Posted on January 1, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“Java has always been the favorite – enterprises talked and still talk Java. Look no further than the Fortune 500 list of companies reliance on it. Yes, Blue Chips love it. The reasons are plenty. The one that enterprises value most is backwards compatibility, being notoriously allergic to radical updates and upgrades. Systems that worked 20 years ago, written in Java 5, should be able to compile and run under version 8. Stability is what matters.” Link

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Reindeer Ordering Rules

Posted on December 25, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

It’s a good time to revisit our Christmas Challenge: “Santa always leaves plans for his elves to determine the order in which the reindeer will pull his sleigh…” Link

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How Digital Decisioning drives AI and ML Success

Posted on December 19, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

James Taylor published an article “How to Succeed with AI & ML in 2020“: “It’s clear that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are going to have a huge impact on businesses in the coming years. Yet most companies are still spending money on AI, not making money with it. There is a wide gap between intent or desire to use AI on the one hand and successful deployments to production on the other. If you want to succeed with AI and ML in 2020 you need to add a new phrase to your lexicon – digital decisioning.” Link

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Jim Sinur’s AI Trends for 2020

Posted on December 18, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“The future looks promising after several years of experimenting with AI. It’s not all fantastic and there will be fakes and failures. In fact, there will be high profile fails, but they are unlikely to cause another AI Winter. Even if the fails can be avoided there are significant challenges with explainability and ethical issues. Guidance will have to be applied with wisdom through goal-driven approaches that have sensible guardrails. It’s not a cakewalk, but it will be an emerging careful AI journey for many. Here are my top ten AI trends for 2020.” Link

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UK Student Loan Policy: Model – Execute – Visualize

Posted on December 17, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Decision modeling is a powerful means of representing a business policy in a way which can readily understood by business subject matter experts and – once approved – be directly executed as part of automated decision making within a company. Jan Purchase published a video that demonstrates how UK Student Loan policy can be implemented using DMN and RapidGen. Link

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DecisionCAMP-2020 Announced

Posted on December 16, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DecisionCAMP is the major annual international event oriented to Business Rules and Decision Management practitioners with a strong technical background. In 2020 it will be held on June 29-July 1 in Oslo, Norway. DecisionCAMP-2020 is organized by DMCommunity.org and will be a part of the Declarative AI Conference: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations. If you plan to present, send your abstracts before March 1, 2020 – see Call for Presentations. Link

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