Here's a thought: What if the greatest opportunity for DMN is not decision management? Over the past year, I have come to this conclusion, and that greener pastures lie in the direction of Low-Code Business Logic. Its addressable market is far larger, and there is less organized resistance among incumbent vendors than DMN faces in [...]
A couple weeks ago my attention was called to a LinkedIn post, one of those clickbait polls: "Is BPMN the standard? Do you use it? Would you expect it from others?" About 65% said Yes, but naturally the haters clogged the comment thread. Of most interest to me was a comment by Alec Sharp, a [...]
In my Low-Code Business Automation methodology, the first step is something I call whiteboarding - developing examples of the logic created in Excel with an eye toward generalizing the logic to handle any possible example and then translating to DMN. This is actually the hardest part of the project, and the only part requiring subject [...]
I read with mixed feelings Larry Goldberg's post "Just Not FEELin It". Larry is the one who introduced me to decision management a decade ago. He was the first to promote a strict methodology for business users creating model-driven decision requirements, which is essential. So he is a very smart guy, and I respect his [...]
In recent posts, I have explained why anyone who can create rich spreadsheet models using Excel formulas can learn to turn those into Low-Code Business Automation services on the Trisotech platform, using BPMN and DMN, and why FEEL and boxed expressions are actually more business-friendly than PowerFX, the new name for Excel's formula language. That's [...]
Last month I showed why Trisotech is a great Low-Code Business Automation platform, based on its use of FEEL and boxed expressions in executable BPMN. How ironic is it, then, that many decision management vendors don't even include those features in their DMN tools! The only part of DMN they use is the Decision Requirements [...]
There is no hotter segment of Business Automation software today than Low-Code. Low-Code refers to application development based on models - diagrams and tables - and business-accessible expression languages, not program code. Gartner assesses Low-Code as a $13.8 billion market in 2021, growing to $46.6 billion in 2023. And, they say, by 2024 it will [...]
Over the past year I've written a number of posts on specific aspects of DMN, but many readers may be unfamiliar with this standard and how they might benefit by learning to use it. In recent months, I've discovered new ways of using it myself, so even experienced modelers may learn something from this post. [...]
Last month we discussed a valuable low-code implementation pattern using Business Automation Services to create event-driven database apps in the cloud. Upon receipt of a business event - a REST API call - the pattern involves a straight-through process that retrieves various database records, calls a decision service to generate additional records, and then inserts [...]
In client engagements, I am seeing growing interest in what Trisotech calls Business Automation as a Service. I am seeing it particularly in financial services, but I expect it applies in health care and other verticals as well. Financial services, for so long reliant on legacy applications, is now racing to create new cloud-based apps [...]