Enterprise Decision Management
How to Build a Business Rules Engine: Extending Application Functionality Through Metadata Engineering
Provides a detailed roadmap, with examples, for building a business rules engine. Covers the necessary background and concepts, as well as the specific steps needed to build a rules engine. Discusses components and organizational issues.
Business Intelligence in the Digital Economy
Text describes what Business Intelligence (BI) is, how it is being conducted and managed; and its major opportunities, limitations, issues, and risks. Takes an in-depth look at the scope of global technological change and BI. Hardcover, softcover available from the publisher. DLC: Business intelligence.
Principles of the Business Rule Approach
Intended to be the first book that anyone from an IT manager to a business manager will read to understand what Business Rules are and how they can be applied to their own situation. Well suited to be used in conjunction with Web services.
Business Rules Applied: Building Better Systems Using the Business Rules Approac
Representing a significant change of focus in software engineering, the business rule approach to application development benefits all decision makers. Managers looking to take advantage of new opportunities will turn to business rules to implement change. IT has already learned the benefits of separating data by processing and managing data as an independent component of systems. A rules-extended development approach does exactly the same thing for business rules: by reducing the amount of code that needs to be written, it shortens the time necessary to implement change. Bestselling author Barbara von Halle (The Handbook of Relational Database Design from Addison Wesley) presents the first book to show in practical, real-world terms how to build applications using business rule concepts and techniques.
Business Rules and Information Systems: Aligning IT with Business Goals
Shows IT professionals how to specify more precisely and more effectively what their systems need to do in order to succeed. Author provides a thorough introduction to business rules, as well as a practical framework for integrating them into information systems.
Decision Support Systems: Frequently Asked Questions
Author Dan Power has spent almost 30 years building, studying and teaching others about computerized Decision Support Systems. Dr. Power is first and foremost a Decision Support evangelist and generalist. From his vantage point as editor of DSSResources.COM, he tracks a broad range of contemporary DSS topics. In this DSS FAQ, Dr. Power answers 83 frequently asked questions about computerized decision support systems. The FAQ covers a broad range of contemporary topics and the questions are organized into 8 chapters.
Introducing Information Management: The Business Approach
This book provides a clear and concise overview of information management covering the key aspects of infrastructure, design, information assets and managing information.
Part 1 explores the diversity and changing nature of managing the information management function.Part 2 investigates the role of information as an organisational resource.
Part 3 focuses on "managing organizational data and information" and includes the main ways that organizational data is managed prior to decision-making activity
Part 4 examines the role of information management in organizational strategy and change. This establishes that the complexity of the information management challenge increases considerably when it penetrates to the heart of an organization's activity.
Business Rule Concepts (Second Edition)
Find out about practical solutions for these and other urgent business challenges. In readable, get-to-the-point style, this book gives you a fast-paced, up-to-the-minute inspection tour of the breakthrough ideas and innovations that have the industry abuzz.
Information Revolution: Using the Information Evolution Model to Grow Business
In a business climate that punishes the inefficient and the slow moving, enterprises must manage their information assets more effectively than ever. Information Revolution introduces and explains the Information Evolution Model (IEM), a patent-pending framework that encompasses an evolutionary path toward information-management optimization across four dimensions: people, processes, corporate culture, and infrastructure. This is a valuable guide to creating a long-term information strategy that leads to continuous profitability and growth.
Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
You have more information at hand about your business environment than ever before. But are you using it to "out-think" your rivals? If not, you may be missing out on a potent competitive tool.
In Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning , Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris argue that the frontier for using data to make decisions has shifted dramatically. Certain high-performing enterprises are now building their competitive strategies around data-driven insights that in turn generate impressive business results. Their secret weapon? Analytics: sophisticated quantitative and statistical analysis and predictive modeling.
Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth
Over the next decade, two out of every three companies will face the challenge of their corporate lives: redefining their core business. Buffeted by global competition and facing an uncertain future, more and more executives will realize that they must make fundamental changes in their core even as they continue delivering the goods and services that keep them in business today.
Unstoppable shows these managers how to look deep within their organizations to find undervalued, unrecognized, or underutilized assets that can serve as new platforms for sustainable growth. Drawing on more than thirty interviews with CEOs from companies such as De Beers, American Express, and Samsung, it shows readers how to recognize when the core needs reinvention and how to deploy the "hidden assets" that can be the basis for tomorrow's growth.
Smart Enough Systems
Smart Enough Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions
- How current technologies fail to address critical issues in automating operational decision-making
- How companies can use the computer-based systems they have in place rather than purchasing new ones to build smarter systems
- How these systems can help companies thrive through Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) - designing, deploying and managing automated decisions
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