Over the past few years, I've written a number of times on the use of business rules management systems (BRMSs) for implementing automated decision making applications. One particular area in which I see BRMSs as having a major impact on organizations' BI and decision support efforts is for enterprise decision management (EDM). Just to make sure we're all on the same page, EDM refers to the application of BRMSs -- sometimes in conjunction with analytic models -- to automate and improve operational decisions across the organization.