Complex Event Processing (CEP)

Where are Your Business Rules … In a Big-P Process Dead Zone?

by Ronald G. Ross on September 6, 2011

On an EA LinkedIn group last week, Nick Malik wrote the following about business rules in Zachman Framework 3.0:
“I’ll bite. If the ‘enterprise ontology’ is similar to the periodic table of elements, then business rules are molecules. They are compositions of elements with specific implications, embedded in event handling logic. Why would you expect to [...]

Read the full article →

Business Rules & Events: Two Questions for Zachman re: 3.0

by Ronald G. Ross on August 29, 2011

The next time I have dinner with John, I have two questions for him. (He knows I always have new questions for him every time I see him, so he’s more or less prepared for it after all these years.) If anyone talks to him sooner, be sure to ask John these two questions … [...]

Read the full article →

Laws of Commerical Semantics … by Curt Monash

by Ronald G. Ross on August 26, 2011

Ever suspect a high B.S. factor in the categories vendors use for their products? Wait, let me ask that differently: Has anyone not suspected a high B.S. factor in the categories vendors use for their products?
I came across some older posts by Curt Monash that formalize the rules of software category B.S. I invite you [...]

Read the full article →