For those of you that could not make it, I wanted to give you the gist of what I presented. This presentation covers the evolution of the business rules technology focusing first on the drivers that forced the market to shift its focus from Business Rules Engines (BRE) to Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS). In a nutshell, the main ideas are summarized below. In a few days, the recording will also be posted on our community site for your convenience.
the root causes of disastrous failures can often be traced back to deficiencies of the social organizations in which they are designed, used, or controlled (Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies).
Bob and Randy are nationally recognized speakers, writers and consultants who have collaborated to bring you the most current, and insightful information on issues and answers related to generally accepted best practices for implementing and supporting technology. Both of the authors have been involved with computers in business since nearly the beginning. Well almost the beginning. Bob was born in 1950 and reminds Randy that in 1950 the total combined RAM in the world was less than 1K. Things have changed, will continue to change, but there is good news. No matter how much technology changes over the years there continues to be certain unalienable principles, and practices, that simply do not change over time. These include proper planning and implementation, training and review of practices. These are the practices this book will endeavor to explore, explain and present for your benefit.
Infoenthusiasts may exult in the sheer volume of raw data, & just as industrial revolution society learned how to process a glut of "atoms," we must now learn how to process this glut of "information."
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OSAF is a non-profit organization developing next-generation inter-personal information management software. Our current projects include a desktop PIM application code-named "Chandler", and a server code-named "Cosmo".
"Today, with affordable storage, effortless retrieval and global access, remembering has become the default, for us individually and for society as a whole."
Joel on SW article, one argument is quite useful regarding the ongoing outsourcing discussion. Anyway, the most funny thing is, that Mozart did NOT write the whole Requiem, only Inroitus and Kyrie, the rest is Eybler and Süßmayr.
J. Kietzmann, and H. Tsang. Proceedings of the 15th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education, page 14:1--14:5. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2010)