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The Business Rules User
Group (BRUG) provides a setting for both business and technical
members to gain and share knowledge about business rule and inference
engine technologies, projects, and initiatives AND network. Whether you have been
involved with automated business rules for years or are just
attempting to understand its benefits for your organization, you are
welcome at the Business Rules User Group.
Meetings are generally held three times a year. Artemis Alliance, a consulting firm with a specific focus in business rules management, is the founder and sponsor of the Business Rules User Group. After meeting with several companies, Artemis saw a clear need for a venue that supported communication about this critical topic and technology.
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Most Recent Meeting
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Date: |
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 from 3-6:30 PM (Central) |
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Location: |
Courtyard Mall of America.
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Topic: |
Business Rule Initiatives:
Effective Teams and Organizational Structure
Building the Modern Enterprise
for Business Rules
Brian Stucky, Vice
President of Knowledge Management, InScope Solutions, Inc.
discussed approaches to establishing a development methodology
based on core concepts of stewardship and governance of rules,
suggested ways to effectively structure teams and entire
organizations to effectively move forward with business rules
and used two case studies (IRS and Freddie Mac) to illustrate
his points.
Effective Teams, Effective
Organization – Successful Business Rules Initiative
Michael Krouze, Chief
Technology Officer, and Alyce Neperud, Principal and Senior
Consultant, both of Artemis Alliance, Inc. discussed how to
evaluate your organization’s readiness for a BRI and how to
create and energize effective teams. The emphasis was on lessons
learned, pitfalls to avoid, and success strategies.
The presentations were followed
by a general Q&A and sharing of experiences by the presenters
and the attendees.
Special thanks to ILOG or
sponsoring the webcast.
For copies of the
presentations or if you have any comments or questions, contact
Laura Mickelson at
lmickelson@artemisalliance.com or 651-227-7172.
For future reference, the next
meetings of the Business Rules User Group will be in late
September/early October. |
Previous Meetings
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Date: |
Thursday, March 8th from 3-5 PM (Central) |
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Location: |
Courtyard Mall of America.
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Topic: |
Enterprise Repository
Management:
Jon Pellant, Chief Technologist, Pegasystems Inc., discussed
removing heavy development (SDLC) process and automating changes
to business rules.
Presentation:
Mastering Change
Walter Ritschel, Corporate Architecture, Blue Cross & Blue
Shield of Minnesota, presented a case study detailing recent
business rules implementation projects.
Presentation:
Rules Implementation - BCBSMN
Krzysztof Karski, Senior Consultant, Artemis Alliance, Inc.,
discussed the benefits of a business rules repository and
compared this to CRM and RMS.
Presentation:
Enterprise
Business Rule Repositories
Special thanks to Pegasystems for sponsoring the webcast.
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Date: |
Thursday, April 20, 4-7pm |
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Location: |
University of St. Thomas,
3M Auditorium in Owens Science Hall (location sponsored by Artemis Alliance) |
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Topic: |
Pitfalls and Lessons Learned
Michael Krouze, Alyce Neperud,
and Krzysztof Karski from Artemis Alliance kicked off the
meeting. From their experience, they shared pitfalls of
rules adoption and some considerations and techniques to
avoid them. Michael presented from a management point of
view, Krzysztof from a technical implementation viewpoint,
and Alyce from an analysis and rules capture perspective.
Presentation:
Pitfalls & Lessons
Learned
Paul Durfee from Country
Insurance and Financial Services followed with a
presentation entitled ‘Moving Existing Business Rules into a
Rules Engine.’ The primary challenge was to move the
existing business rules to the new architecture without
impacting the mainframe. Based his 13 years of rules engine
experience which includes this project, Paul provided
interesting insight including his lessons learned and best
practices.
Presentation:
Moving Existing Business Rules into JRules
Meg Lattery concluded the
meeting with a very detailed and complete case study of a
business rules initiative for the Minnesota Housing Finance
Agency on Methodology, Tools and Techniques to Support a
Collaborative Implementation of a Loan Origination System.
The project goal was to “Transform the way the MN Homes
Division does business with their Mortgage Lending Partners,
Administrators of their loan products, the designated MHFA
Trustee and MHFA’s Servicing Partner(s).”
Presentation:
Methodology,
Tools and Techniques to Support a Collaborative
Implementation of a Loan Origination System
View the BRUG
Newsletter On-Line
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Date: |
Thursday, August 25, 3-7pm |
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Location: |
University of St. Thomas,
3M Auditorium in Owens Science Hall (location sponsored by Artemis Alliance) |
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Topic: |
Michael Krouze, CTO for Artemis
Alliance, kicked off with a presentation entitled
'Demystifying Business Rules Engines: A Non-Technical
Explanation of how BREs Work and Why They’re So Cool.' The
presentation targeted both business and technical people
so they can appreciate the basics of how business rules
engines do their job. He also defined the common terms
people hear when speaking to rules engine vendors
(backward chaining, forward chaining, RETE, etc.).
Equifax, a leading information services provider, discussed its decision to implement a business rules
management system (BRMS) as part of its InterConnect
decisioning platform. In its address, Equifax highlighted
how the integration of BRMS technology has enabled the
company to take its decisioning products to the next level,
resulting in improved internal processes and enhanced
business performance. The presentation also included a
testimonial from an InterConnect customer, who spoke to
the strategic benefits of an enterprise decisioning platform
with a business rules-based foundation. |
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Date: |
Thursday, June 16, 3-7pm |
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Location: |
University of Saint
Thomas (location sponsored by Artemis Alliance) |
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Topic: |
Bill Griffin of Haley conducted a
corporate overview and presentation. Bulent Ugurlu, lead
technical architect for Optum (a subsidiary of Specialized
Care Services under UnitedHealth Group), will conclude the
presentations discussing their rules engine selection
process, framework built, and lessons learned regarding the
evaluation and use of a business rules engine for their CRM
and Nurseline application. Q&A and an open forum discussion
will follow for the remainder of the meeting. |
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Date: |
Thursday, April 14, 3-7pm |
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Location: |
University of Saint
Thomas (location sponsored by Artemis Alliance) |
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Topic: |
Donna Hentges, CEO of Artemis
Alliance, presented on bridging the communication gap and
obtaining buy-in from business. Fair Isaac followed
with a presentation related to their Blaze Advisor
application. Brian Carlson from eBenX, a SHPS Company,
presented on his experience with a rule-based solution
for the SHPS Spending Account Management System. The
meeting concluded with a Q&A and an open forum
discussion. |
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Date: |
February 3, 2005 |
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Location: |
University of Saint
Thomas (location sponsored by Artemis Alliance) |
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Topic: |
The content of the
meeting focused on standards and best practices in business
rules. The meeting started out with four 15-25 minute
presentations followed by Q&A and open forum discussion.
Panelists were from Best Buy, COUNTRY Insurance and
Financial Services, Ingenix (subsidiary of UnitedHealth
Group), and Optum (subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group).
ILOG concluded the meeting with a JRules demo. |
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Date: |
November 18, 2004 |
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Location: |
University of Saint
Thomas (location sponsored by Artemis Alliance) |
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Topic: |
Business Rules Engine
Vendor/Product Analysis and Discussion
If you would like a copy
of the vendor matrix, please contact Wyatt
Wood. |
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Date: |
September 15, 2004 |
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Location: |
University of Saint
Thomas (location sponsored by Artemis Alliance) |
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Recap: |
Case Study: A Rule
Based Architecture for Insurance Policy Production
Michael Krouze, Chief
Technology Officer, Artemis Alliance
If you would like the
PowerPoint slides for this presentation, send an email to Wyatt
Wood. |
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Last updated:
Friday,
June 10 |
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