Notes from DecisionCAMP-2019

Posted on October 5, 2019 by jacobfeldman

DecisionCAMP-2019 in beautiful Bolzano on Sep. 17-19 will go down in history as one of the most successful DecisionCAMPs. As usual, it was packed with interesting presentations and even more interesting formal and informal discussions. I will try to write down some notes from this event while my memory is still fresh. Continue reading →

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Deploying Business Decision Models as Amazon Microservices

Posted on October 4, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Nowadays many enterprises are moving their operational decision services to cloud utilizing Microservices and the new Serverless architecture that takes care of high availability, security, and super-fast performance. But how difficult is it to deploy business decision models as cloud-based microservices? Can it be done by the same business analysts who create and maintain business decision models? This article tells about the latest breakthrough.

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The essential complexity of software engineering

Posted on October 2, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In his Oct. 2, 2019 article Andrew Ng wrote: “Despite progress from typewriters to text editors, why is writing still hard to do? Because text editors don’t address the most difficult part: thinking through what you want to say.

Programming tools have the same limitation. I’m glad to be coding in Python rather than Fortran. But as Brooks points out, most advances in programming tools have not reduced the essential complexity of software engineering. This complexity lies in designing a program and specifying how it should solve a given problem, rather than in expressing that design in a programming language.” Read more Continue reading →

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Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence

Posted on September 29, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The topic of the Ethical Use of AI and Digital Decisioning came up many times during DecisionCAMP-2019 and BRAIN-2019 a week ago. Probably our readers would be interested to read this report “Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence for Actuaries” written by Neil Raden.

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Camping in Bolzano

Posted on September 14, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Program and Presenters
Schedule
Presentations and Photos
Vendor’s Corner
Venue and Social Events

 

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Our new sponsors: FlexRule and INRULE

Posted on September 11, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DMCommunity.org welcomes new sponsors, vendors of popular BR&DM products:
       

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One Microjourney™ at a time

Posted on September 11, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Alan Trefler, CEO at Pegasystems, just introduced “The new way of operating: One microjourney™ at a time“: What we’re really talking about are microjourneys – an optimized outcome for each customer touchpoint that, for example, changes the customer experience, builds a relationship, or achieves a specific organizational milestone. Acquiring a new customer, opening a new account, fulfilling an order, or resolving a billing inquiry all fit the definition of a microjourney. Applying a microjourney view to systems and operations can help businesses streamline both. Pushing “microjourneys vs traditional business architectures” sounds very similar to the modern “microservices vs. monolithic technical architectures” approach. Link

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Decision Management: What It Is and Why You Need It

Posted on September 6, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In this webinar Gartner expert Roy Schulte describes the state of the art in decision management and offers guidance on how to get started. Link

Gartner is preparing a new report on decision management vendors.

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Intelligent Core

Posted on September 6, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Read Neil Ward-Dutton’s article “IDC: The most important decision you’ll make in the next decade“:

Have you noticed operational decision services inside the Intelligent Core? They are the ones who provide the “capability to drive intelligent behaviour and actions, linking human and machine-derived knowledge from the widest possible information sources, will drive optimum system behaviour and business outcomes.“

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The “boring” benefits of AI

Posted on September 5, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

InformationAge published an interesting article “If you want to see the benefits of AI, forget moonshots and think boring“.  “While the ‘low-hanging-fruit’ approach to AI may sound monotonous, if you add all the small boring initiatives together, things start to get interesting… If you just have a bunch of little disconnected projects, nobody’s going to get excited. However, if you know that each one is improving things incrementally, when you combine them, they add up to a huge amount of transformation. So a collection of low-hanging fruit is an excellent idea.”  Business Rules and Decision Models are certainly among such ‘low-hanging-fruit’. Link

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