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Understanding the Users who are Creating or Editing Business Rules

by Kevin Lindquist, on April 27, 2016
This article is part of a series on common questions we discuss about building rule engine focused applications.  Understanding a users skill level and technical competency is critical in designing a meaningful rule authoring experience. As you …

Impacts of Business Rule Changes

by Kevin Lindquist, on April 20, 2016
This article is part of a series on common questions we discuss about building rule engine focused applications.  Changes to business rules in general can present day to day challenges as employees, customers, and other stakeholders …

Building Rule Engine Focused Applications

by Kevin Lindquist, on April 12, 2016
Decisions works with a number of customers and partners who have developed and implemented solutions that are Business Rule Engine oriented. While the context of these applications may vary from credit scoring to medical claims …

Engaging End Users with Workflow Automation

by Kevin Lindquist, on April 11, 2016
Decisions customers are engaging end users in the enterprise in a variety of ways. While some of these methods are obvious - using forms built in Decisions delivered through the End User Portal for example …

Decisions Highlighted in CIOReview: CXO Insights on BPM

by Kevin Lindquist, on March 30, 2016
I was approached by CIOReview recently to contribute a guest article for their BPM special issue. You can take a look at the issue at the link below and read the guest article on page …

Decisions Seminar: Business Rule Basics – Register Here

by Kevin Lindquist, on March 23, 2016
What is a Decisions Seminar? A Decisions Seminar is a survey and high level training of a specific feature or pattern in the Decisions Platform. While we hold other webinars that are more "sales demo" focused. …

From Install to Training and Production in 7 Days

by Kevin Lindquist, on March 18, 2016
At a recent free training event, we had a number of attendees with us who had not yet signed on as official Decisions customers. While all of these attendees have either signed on or plan …

What your business processes can learn from the new Brita Smart Pitcher

by Kevin Lindquist, on March 14, 2016
Brita and Amazon just announced a new product - a pitcher that tracks how much water is poured (assuming you are pouring it for your own refreshment it calls this "consumption") and uses that information to …

Using Decisions for Customer On-Boarding

by Kevin Lindquist, on February 26, 2016
The Customer On-Boarding Process Customer on-boarding can be one of the most complex processes in a business due to the amount of coordination required among both internal and external teams. With each point of coordination increasing …

The Rete Algorithm in Decisions and RULE.net

by Kevin Lindquist, on February 23, 2016
What is the Rete Algorithm? Your first question is likely – how do I say “Rete”? Well, a quick search leading to several dictionaries suggests “Reet” is appropriate while “Ree-tee” and and other pronunciations are less …

Decisions Q1 2016 Free Training Event

by Kevin Lindquist, on February 17, 2016
Decisions Free Training Event on March 1st in Norfolk, VA, USA On March 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, Decisions will be holding a free training event at the Courtyard in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Prospects, customers and …

Intelligent Interfacing with Decisions

by Kevin Lindquist, on February 1, 2016
Manual Data Entry is for Dummies... One of the best ways to improve workflow is to eliminate manual data entry and lookup through integration and interfacing, but you can't auto-populate what you don't know. Decisions is …

Decisions among the Internet of Things

by Kevin Lindquist, on January 20, 2022
Rules Triggering Connected Device Actions Recently a customer asked us about Philips HUE light bulbs - so we went to Home Depot and grabbed two of them. Within 15 minutes of unboxing we had them flashing …

“Code Free Workflow Builder” | Email from Customers

by Kevin Lindquist, on January 26, 2016
We get emails like this all the time - but we thought this one was worth sharing. Enjoy! -- Hi Carl, I got a chance to check out the software and I liked what I saw. I'll try …

Decisions Versus Custom Development

by Kevin Lindquist, on January 26, 2016
A customer recently asked: “When and why is Decisions a better choice than custom development?”. This is not an uncommon question, and an important point of best practice when you consider Decisions as a part of …

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