Business Applications

Make your business processes more intelligent and agile with IDIOM decision automation

The IDIOM Decision Suite is a generic development tool with application throughout commercial computing. It closely supports the effective and business accessible 'decision oriented' development technique as outlined in Idiom's seminal paper "Decisioning - a new approach to systems development".

IDIOM is particularly useful in any industry where computerization of core business processes is high, and where decisions are both complex and subject to business-driven change. Businesses that differentiate themselves through computer automation of core processes will benefit the most from IDIOM.

We have identified several sectors where these attributes are frequently found:

IDIOM has a unique ability to support 'outsourced' knowledge and other new forms of process that cross organizational boundaries. The IDIOM Decision Manager allows the subject matter experts who define decision-making processes to operate from within any organization, and to distribute and collate decisioning across organizational boundaries. Used properly, this can shorten supply chains and provide new levels of agility for industries that involve knowledge collaboration between partners.

Examples of the types of decision making that IDIOM has been used to automate include: