(Doors open at 5:30 for registration, meeting starts at 6:00PM)
Perfect Together or Perfect Apart?
Barbara von HalleKnowledge Partners, Inc
Without a doubt, business integrity is under great scrutiny today. And, the core of a business’s integrity lies within its policies and rules and how they are managed. Today, the rules must be excavated (perhaps from legacy systems) and separated from other aspects of the business, and must also be traced to where they are guiding business decisions. It has become imperative that an organization know what its rules are, why those rules are important, where the rules are relevant within the business, who can and should challenge them, and what the anticipated business impact is before making rule changes.
This presentation starts by explaining KPI’s Business Logic Maturity Model ™, addressing business rule and business process maturity as seen across industries. The presentation unravels the traditional KPI approach for scoping, rule discovery, and analysis. This approach becomes real when related functionality is presented of a passive rule repository, as used in practice today. The presentation concludes by introducing KPI’s new approach for integrating BPM and BR approaches. This approach, called SUPER-STEP™, allows for iterating from process to rules, performing automated process and rule analysis, and actually testing process and rule logic against data…all before writing any code. The presentation illustrates how the principles have been incorporated into an upcoming release of a BPM/BRE product, providing a view into emerging technology trends, embracing the integration of BPM and BRE technology.
Attendees will participate in an exercise to identify the business rules, facts, terms, and questions -- from a federal tax document.
Barbara von Halle is the founder of Knowledge Partners, Inc. (KPI). KPI specializes in enterprise information architecture and strategy, data warehouse/data mart development, and business rule systems development. KPI DWH scoping and requirements approach is offered through the Data Warehouse Institute. In 1996, Barbara received the honored Outstanding Individual Achievement Award from the International Data Management Association, being the third individual to receive this award. As a part-time journalist, von Halle was the leading contributing editor for Database Programming and Design Magazine(Miller Freeman Publishers) for over five years. She co-authored The Handbook of Relational Database Design (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company) which serves as a standard text in universities and business environments. She also co-edited The Handbook of Data Management (Auerbach Publishers), which was Auerbach’s best selling book. Her most recent book, Business Rules Applied (2002: Wiley & Sons) is the first book to contain a step-by-step approach for delivering business rule systems. It was a finalist in the 2002 Jolt Awards from Software Development Magazine. Barbara plays many roles in the company, but her primary responsibility is Capability Management. Through the Capability Management Function, Barbara ensures that all KPI consultants follow KPI’s data and rule methodology, standards, and guidelines on client engagements.
Barbara last spoke to COOUG in August 2002.
$5.00 Admission No Reservations Required Complimentary Soda and cookies
Bring your Business Card for a chance at one of these book door prizes courtesy Addison Wesley , Prentice-Hall/PTR and KPI.
