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OMG TECHNICAL MEETING SPECIAL EVENT

Decision Modeling Information Day

Wednesday, March 23, 2011, Arlington, VA USA

Overview

OMG is hosting an Information Day on Decision Modeling supported by the key vendors and consultants in this growing and important area of business analysis. The Information Day introduces:

  • methodologies and techniques (like the fundamentals of business logic in decision tables, and the KPI Decision Model)

  • related decision management technologies (from vendors such as IBM, TIBCO, New Wisdom Software and OpenRules).

The day ends with an overview of the new proposed standard for decision modeling, called DMN, which is planned to be published as an RFP during the week of the Information Day and is expected to provide a standard for Decision Tables and other models that can be used in BPM and other technologies across vendor solutions.


Who Should Attend

  • Business Analysts who want to learn about methods and tools to help model and automate decisions in their business

  • Consultants and Vendors who want to learn about the proposed Decision Modeling Notation standard by OMG


Agenda

08:45 - 09:00 OMG Welcome & Introduction
  John Hall, ModelSystems, Author of The OMG Business Motivation Model
 
09:00 - 09:30 Keynote: The Importance of Decisions and Decision Modeling
  James Taylor, Author of Smart Enough Systems
 
 PART 1 - Business Decision Modeling Perspectives
The first part of the day covers established business decision modeling techniques and methodologies that utilize notations, together with use cases. Examples would be goal-based or logical decompositions of decisions into executable decision tables.
 
09:30 - 10:15 Session 1
  Professor Jan van Thienen, KU Leuven, World Authority on Decision Tables
 
10:15 - 10:30 Morning Refreshment Break
 
10:30 - 11:15 Session 2
 

Barbara van Halle and Larry Goldberg, KPI, Authors of The Decision Model
 
 PART 2 - Decision Management and Execution Perspectives
These are technology overviews by software companies providing software solutions for decision modelling and often decision automation, including customer use cases.
 
11:15 - 11:45 Session 3 - Decisions in IBM Websphere ILOG BRMS
 

Christian de Sainte Marie, IBM ILOG
 
11:45 - 12:15 Session 4 - Sapiens on Decision Modeling
 

Sagi Schlisser, CTO & VP R&D, Sapiens
 
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch  & Plenary Presentations
 
 13:30 - 14:00 Session 5 - RuleGuide Decision and Rule Management
 

Lee Lambert, CEO, New Wisdom Software
 
14:00 - 14:30 Session 6 - Document Mining for Decision Models - Mining as an Ongoing Effort
 

Bas Janssen, RuleManagement Group
 
14:30 - 15:00 Session 7 - CEP and Decision Management
 

Paul Vincent, CTO Business Rules & CEP, TIBCO Software
 
15:00 - 15:15 Afternoon Refreshment Break
 
15:15 - 15:45 Session 8 - Creating, Testing, and Executing Decision Models with OpenRules-6 
 

Jacob Feldman, CTO OpenRules
 
 PART 3 - What's Next?
This section discusses the notations described in Part 1 and Part 2 and how they can potentially be brought together in a standard notation, DMN, to provide the decision analysis world with an equivalent to BPMN.
 
15:45 - 16:15 Session 9 - Way Ahead: What is OMG DMN and What can it Achieve for Users and Vendors?
 

Paul Vincent, CTO Business Rules & CEP, TIBCO Software
Christian de Sainte Marie, IBM ILOG
Professor Jan van Thienen, KU Leuven, World Authority on Decision Tables
 
16:15 - 16:50 Session 10 - Panel Discussion & Q&A
 

Information Day Speakers will take questions from the attendees and themselves on the need for decision modeling and standards.
 
16:50 - 17:00 Wrap-Up and Feedback
 
For parties interested in the DMN standard, a meeting will be arranged after the Information Day to allow potential standard submitters (vendors, consultants and end-users) to discuss their interests and, if possible, form initial submission teams.