Toward Integrated Business Processes, Analytics, and Business Rules

by Curt Hall

I've been saying for years that companies should consider data warehousing and BI as strategic applications as opposed to some sort of supplemental capabilities to be "bolted on" to enterprise applications as an afterthought. I've also said that the blending of business PROCESS management (BPM), BI, and business rules technologies will be some of the most important developments to affect enterprise software over the next few years.