Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics

by James Taylor

"A very rich book sprinkled with real-life examples as well as battle-tested advice.”
—Pierre Haren, VP ILOG, IBM

"James does a thorough job of explaining Decision Management Systems as enablers
of a formidable business transformation.”
—Deepak Advani, Vice President, Business Analytics Products and SPSS, IBM

Build Systems That Work Actively to Help You Maximize Growth and Profits
Most companies rely on operational systems that are largely passive. But what if you could make your systems active participants in optimizing your business? What if your systems could act intelligently on their own? Learn, not just report? Empower users to take action instead of simply escalating their problems? Evolve without massive IT investments?

Decision Management Systems can do all that and more. In this book, the field’s leading expert demonstrates how to use them to drive unprecedented levels of business value. James Taylor shows how to integrate operational and analytic technologies to create systems that are more agile, more analytic, and more adaptive. Through actual case studies, you’ll learn how to combine technologies such as predictive analytics, optimization, and business rules—improving customer service, reducing fraud, managing risk, increasing agility, and driving growth.

Both a practical how-to guide and a framework for planning, Decision Management Systems focuses on mainstream business challenges.

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308 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2011

About the author

Librarian Note: there are more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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James[9spaces]Taylor : Business, "Insider Secret" book

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

IBM Press. Yep, that pretty much sums up this book. While there is a wealth of information in this book it is so boring, even for an IT nerd like me, it made it tough to get through the material and I probably would have quit had the book not been required reading for an MBA class. Yes, a book on decision management systems is not necessarily going to be the most fun book to get through and this one is certainly not fun. However, it does make you appreciate books like "Competing on Analytics" that have at leas a bit of flavor all that much more.

On the upside, it was fun through to discover the whole open source world of Drools which is built on top of the JBOSS family of products. While I only have a cursory understanding of this field, it was interesting to know there is a whole industry developed around the science of decision making and selling a decision making platform. I had previously assumed this would be proprietary information to every company, but it looks like you can jump right into a fully developed decision management system with a rules workflow and event processing if you were so inclined.

In the end pick this book up only if you are really into decision work flows, otherwise there are many more exciting technology/business books out there. Ideally they should have packaged this in textbook format to scare away only the most dedicated of readers.

[Jamie is]

Took notes in advance for the remaining chapters I had to read this quarter for one of my Predictive Analytics classes