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James Taylor

James Taylor  Active Contributor Bronze: 250-499 points
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Company: Decision Management Solutions
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James is the CEO of Decision Management Solutions and one of the leading proponents of business rules and other decisioning technologies. James helps companies identify the decisions that make a difference to their business, select appropriate technologies such as business rules and predictive analytics, and successfully implement decisioning solutions to make their business processes smarter, simpler and more agile.

Growing momentum for SAP business rules
 Oct. 28, 2011
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Business Intelligence, Business Rules and Business Process
Bringing together Business Intelligence, Business Rules and Business Analytics will enable a new class of system to be built May. 14, 2011
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Real-world BPM and decisioning with business rules
A new book on best practices in BPM has a chapter on decision management and business rules as well as some chapters on SAP's business rules technology. Feb. 26, 2011
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SAP Run Better Tour Keynote notes
 Feb. 23, 2011
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An Update - SAP BI and EIM 4.0
 Feb. 22, 2011
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Webinar on business rules in ERP and other core applications
 Feb. 21, 2011
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New book(s) on business rules
 Dec. 6, 2010
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Where to start with business rules
Some advice on getting started with business rules. Sep. 26, 2010
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Flexible yet permanent - the power of business rules
 May. 18, 2010
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Webinar on business rules and decisions in BPM
Free webinar on business rules and decisions in BPM May. 5, 2010
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Adding predictive analytics to your business rules
Adding predictive analytics to business rules-based decisioning is a powerful tool for better decisions. Feb. 18, 2010
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Processes, Decisions, Rules
Some articles and news on the use of business rules and decisioning in business process management. Feb. 17, 2010
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Be careful when using BRFplus to take actions
Don't use the action functionality of BRFplus when you are automating decision making. Nov. 6, 2009
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Data-driven rules
An answer to a reader's question about business rules Nov. 2, 2009
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Business rules on a full stomach
A response to some questions raised about business rules by Vijay Vijayasankar Oct. 28, 2009
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Accelerating SAP BPM with Business Rules
A review of the 7.2 Business Rules environment from TechEd Oct. 15, 2009
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BRFplus - rules and ABAP
An overview of rules in ABAP - BRFplus Oct. 14, 2009
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SAP BPM - a discussion
A discussion about SAP Netweaver BPM 7.2 Oct. 14, 2009
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Blogger roundtable with SAP Research
Interesting discussion of two SAP research projects Oct. 14, 2009
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Process-centric Composite Applications with SAP Netweaver
Quick notes from a hands on session with CE Oct. 13, 2009
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SAP TechEd - Executive Q&A
Some notes from the executive Q&A at SAP Tech Ed 2009. Oct. 13, 2009
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SAP Netweaver Business Rules overview
A summary of Michael Hill's session on business rules at SAP TechEd 09 Oct. 13, 2009
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Removing decisioning from the SDLC
Automated decisions should be described with business rules and managed like content not as part of the SDLC Oct. 13, 2009
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Using business rules in stable, core processes
The use of business rules to manage decisions can bring agility to stable, core business processes. Oct. 6, 2009
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Adding decision management to your BPM initiative
Some thoughts on getting started adding business rules and decisioning to BPM. Sep. 30, 2009
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Risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning
Companies adopting BPM should think about the role of decisions in their processes and manage decisions, and the business rules that define them, alongside their processes or deal with the risks that will result. Sep. 24, 2009
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