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The term ‘decisioning’ is in growing use in the business systems lexicon. The concept of ‘decisioning’ recognizes the fundamental importance of decision making to any business. Decision-making knowhow is the critical knowledge that differentiates one business from another in the marketplace.

This two-part article provides insights into decisioning as a new and critical driver of the Systems Development Life Cycle, drawn from the author’s many ‘decision centric’ development experiences.

Decisioning.pdf 16 page PDF file (742KB) January, 2007

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This whitepaper discusses modelling the decision-making process as an explicit part of the business rule model

Decision-centric rules modelling.pdf5 page PDF file (392KB) 30 May, 2005

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Any discussion of IDIOM must start with a discussion about decisions - what they are, and why they are important. We start with the premise that the decisions that a business makes, and how it makes them, is a critical defining characteristic of the business. Good decision making is at the very core of business success, and how it is approached is an important characteristic that differentiates one business from another.

Introduction to Idiom.pdf8 page PDF file (727KB) 2 March, 2004

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IdiomArchitecture.pdf

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This white paper discusses a generic approach to defining information based products such as those found in insurance.

ConfigurableProduct.pdf10 page PDF file (600KB) 17 June, 2003

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A spreadsheet that presents criteria that can be used to evaluate decisioning tools.

Evaluation Criteria.pdf3 page PDF, 10 KB 28 October 2004

This whitepaper discusses extending BizTalk Server with IDIOM to create a sophisticated modelling environment for the definition of business rules

IdiomandBizTalkServer(Brief).pdf3 page PDF file (296KB) 4 March, 2005

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One of the key features of IDIOM is the flexibility enabled in the runtime deployment of the IDIOM decisions and formulas. Deploying IDIOM within a business process managed by BPEL4WS offers further flexibility to the deployment of business rules. IDIOM has been designed from its inception to work in an XML environment and is therefore easily integrated into a web services architecture. By recognising that most business processes have process steps that are predominantly rule based (often decisions impact the flow of a business process i.e. approval etc.), IDIOM is well placed to contribute to a BPEL4WS managed business process.

Idiom+BPEL4WS.pdf5 page PDF file (326KB) 2 March, 2004

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One of the key features of the IDIOM Decision Suite is the range of options available for deployment of the IDIOM decisions. IDIOM generates simple components that can be integrated into most common architectures. With the release of the recent version of Websphere Enterprise Edition, IBM has added a framework for Business Rule Beans. This white paper illustrates how IDIOM and the Business Rule Beans can be integrated within the IBM Websphere environment to offer a comprehensive rules management strategy.

IDIOMandBusinessRuleBeans.pdf5 page PDF file (415KB) 2 March, 2004

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The purpose of this paper is to describe how business rules are managed within the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and to outline how IDIOM can be used with RUP.

Idiom+RUP.pdf7 page pdf file (338KB) 2 March, 2004

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One of the key features of IDIOM is the flexibility enabled in the runtime deployment of the IDIOM decisions and formulas. IDIOM generates simple components that can be integrated into most common architectures. This whitepaper seeks to explore options for the deployment of the IDIOM decisions and formulas as web services.

IdiomWebServices.pdf5 page PDF file (344KB) 2 March, 2004