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March 27, 2014

My first ‘Hello World’ rule

This blog has now moved. This post was originally posted on the Sparkling Logic blog. Let’s go back to basics and explore how business rules work. For that purpose, I am using the unavoidable ‘Hello World’ project. I will show you today that agility can be obtained without a whole lot of complexity… My first-grade […]

February 10, 2014

What are Champion / Challenger experiments in Decision Management?

This blog has now moved. This post was originally posted on the Sparkling Logic blog. Have you ever heard of Champion / Challenger? If you are in the Financial Services industry, chances are you have and you might even have used this technique. If not, I wouldn’t be so sure you have. What is Champion […]

February 3, 2014

What is Decision Management?

This blog has now moved. This post was originally posted on the Sparkling Logic blog. I am often asked what Decision Management is. If you do not know what decision management is, and yet you too are wondering, this video is for you. The purpose of this video is to explain through a use case […]

January 27, 2014

Decision Management Predictions for 2014

This blog has now moved. This post was originally posted on the Sparkling Logic blog. As it is customary, let me share what I foresee as being big this new year… I would like to focus on just three points that are striking me as important in no particular order. 1. Predictive Analytics Well, of […]

January 7, 2014

New Year, New Look

2014 has just started. We are foreseeing lots of activity this year in the decision management industry and want to mark its beginning with a new look. Let us know how you like our new site and relocated Decision Management blog!

November 5, 2013

Decision CAMP 2013 – Shash Hegde – Giving machines a collective memory & intelligence

Shash is sharing an interesting business model his customer has developed. He figured out a way to guarantee a level of power while reducing the operational costs by augmenting the battery life. While manual inspection and industry knowledge has been the key to this business, automating maintenance allows the company to sustain their rapid growth […]

November 5, 2013

Decision CAMP 2013 – CTO Panel

Neil Raden is the host for our CTO Panel at Decision CAMP. His victims are: our own Carlos – Sparkling Logic Jacob Feldman – OpenRules Gil Segal – Sapiens Mark Proctor – Red Hat The conversation goes fast to Business Rules and Analytics of course. Carlos says that Analytics market is much bigger than Business […]

November 5, 2013

Decision CAMP 2013 – Dr. Charles Forgy – Writing Concise Rules

It is a great honor to have Charles join us for the very first Decision CAMP ever. Charles does not need any introduction of course. Today he is presenting a keynote on ‘writing concise rules’. I will upload the slides after the presentation. It contains detailed examples of techniques you can use for more elegant […]

November 5, 2013

Writing simpler rules

Dr Charles Forgy delivered a presentation at Decision Camp 2013 today on how to write simpler rules. This is a new type of presentation from Charles – a presentation from the perspective of the user of rules rather than the implementer of a rules engine. This switch in perspective from the father of Rete is […]

July 31, 2013

Hot Tech Trends for Machine Learning

I joined the Churchill Club this morning for an exciting breakfast on Machine Learning. In May 2013, Steve Jurvetson of DFJ said on the Churchill Club stage that he believes machine learning will be one of the most important tech trends over the next 3-5 years for innovation and economic growth. I was eager to hear what […]