James Taylor is a leading thinker on the emerging area of Enterprise Decision Management

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Decision Management Applications

DM ReviewDecision Management Applications in DM Direct Special Report.  A look at the benefits of decision management applications and an approach to leverage business rules management, predictive analytics and strategy optimization across the enterprise.

Proponents Push Business Rules, But Programmers Aren’t Buying, Yet

ADTJames is quoted in “Proponents Push Business Rules, But Programmers Aren’t Buying, Yet” by Stephen Swoyer. The article discusses how there’s a good chance programmers already are using business rules in the form of proto-rules in their environments and how business rules advocates often promise that the technology will eliminate much of the rote or otherwise tedious maintenance and production support. He goes on to discuss how programmers often have good reason to resist the transition to a business rules-based approach because the impetus usually comes from the line of business.

Enterprise Analytics

Teradata MagazineJames is quoted extensively In this Teradata Report on Enterprise Analytics. The report defines Enterprise Analytics and how it can benefit organizations. It includes quotes from industry analysts from several companies as well as James.