This is why predictive analytics matters...

I saw this today - California Auto Bill Passes Assembly Insurance Committee - and it prompted me to ask some of my insurance analytic friends. Here's what they came up with: There is a clear opportunity for Predictive Analytics to...

Users look to offer BI access to customers, partners - WHY?

I saw this article in Computerworld - Users look to offer BI access to customers, partners - and the title made me ask "Why?". Now I don't want to seem like I am criticizing the products or companies described -...

No wonder insurance is so expensive....

ake I saw this today - Ark. Reminds Insurers of Anti-Money Laundering Responsibilities. The article had a key piece about what insurance companies should do: At a minimum, insurance companies subject to the rule requiring an anti-money laundering program must...

What the people REALLY want

A good friend of mine, Ken Molay over at Webinar Success, spotted this article Times have changed, technology needs to follow about the need for new technological solutions as work shifts increasingly to knowledge work. "86% feel they are being...

EDM and your Digital Business Architecture

I was reading some work by Randy Heffner and his colleagues at Forrester recently on Digital Business Architecture - here and here. He defines a Digital Business Architecture as: An IT Architecture centered on business metadata on which IT solutions...

Reduce Fraud? Use EDM...

Interesting article in Insurance Journal ABI Calls for "Radical Action" to Reduce U.K. Fraud talking about insurance fraud costing each family in the UK $1,000 annually. The article talks about some steps that could be taken to improve this situation....

Sense and Respond with business rules

Christian Plaichner wrote a nice article recently in DM Review about Agile Business Process Management with Sense and Respond. There's lots of good stuff in the article but I do think one "clarification" is called for. In many cases it...

Oracle's view on business rules and SOA

Interesting article in Enterprise Architect this month - Rules Evolution in Service-Oriented Architecture - by Bruce Lowenthal. It's a great article and I don't have much to add to Bruce's comments, so instead I will refer to you to other...

If only they had used rules...

Ian Graham (of Trireme) pointed out a great example of a government project that should have used business rules - Jobcentre Plus misses deadline. This story, courtesy of the British Government, tells of a simple increase in an allowance that...

Live from Brainstorm (almost): Business Process Management, SOA, and Composite Applications

Ken Vollmer of Forrester Research gave a nice presentation on Business Process Management, SOA, and Composite Applications. I particularly liked both the phrase "Digital Business Architecture" to describe these general trends and his comment that we are finally able to...