Decisions Blog

Decisions Days 2019 (Nov 4th – 8th)

by Gordon Jones, on September 26, 2019

Simply by reading this blog post you are cordially invited to our first annual Decisions Days event in New York City. Pretty cool huh? We have extended our typical 3-day training event to include two …

When the Fourth Option is the Best Option

by Gordon Jones, on September 23, 2019

I have often joked that when clients purchase DECISIONS that we were their fourth option. There’s quite a bit of truth in this though. So, with that said, what would be options 1, 2 and …

Refactoring an Application – Beginning with Rules

by Gordon Jones, on September 19, 2019

We’ve all been there. You have a legacy application that has slowly morphed over time, showing increasing signs of complexity, and has finally hit the breaking point. Each subsequent change seems to take forever and …

Do You Need a Business Rules Engine?

by Gordon Jones, on September 16, 2019

Since you are reading this blog post, it’s likely that you already know what a rules engine is. For those that don’t, a rule engine separates business logic from an application and exposes that logic …

Decisions Helps NYC Dept of Social Services & National Cancer Institute Match Resources to People in Need

by Decisions Helps NYC Dept of Social Services & National Cancer Institute Match Resources to People in Need, on September 5, 2019

Companies today are laser-focused on things like growing market share, ensuring customer satisfaction, increasing profit margins, enhancing product functionality, and maintaining customer retention. These are all important facets to running a successful business, and Decisions …

Recognizing (too much) Complexity

by Gordon Jones, on August 28, 2019

I recently purchased a book that I would highly recommend to anyone building software. It’s titled “A Philosophy of Software Design” by John Ousterhout and I plan to write blog posts for the next month …

Data Validation with Rule Sets

by Gordon Jones, on June 11, 2019

Garbage in, garbage out was first uttered by an IBM employee back in 1965 and this computer science term is just as valid today as it was nearly 55 years ago. In fact, we are …

Why your ERP system needs Workflow

by Gordon Jones, on June 3, 2019

I talk regularly with clients who have invested heavily in expensive ERP systems but are not satisfied with the level of automation they have been able to achieve. I can totally relate to this, as …

Decisions User Interface Options

by Gordon Jones, on April 1, 2019

When it comes to user interface (UI) design - opinions can be strong. This is particularly true when your application is customer facing. And like most things in Decisions, there is more than one way …

Thinking about AI and Rules

by Gordon Jones, on March 25, 2019

There was a very interesting article this past week in New Scientist magazine titled “The best image-recognition AI’s are fooled by slightly rotated images.” Do read the whole thing. This article touches on one of …

Coming in Version 6 – Docker Container Support

by Gordon Jones, on March 5, 2019

We are continuing to shake down our Version 6 release and it is undergoing final QA testing while I write this blog post. One of the key features in this release is the support for …

RPA and/or BPM?

by Gordon Jones, on February 4, 2019

RPA is all the rage at the moment and not a day goes by where I don’t hear that a prospective client is investigating RPA tools. I have to take my hat off to the …

Optimize Your Supply Chain with Decisions

by James Davidson, on January 9, 2019

Given the flexible nature of Decisions, our customers have used our platform for a whole range of different use cases across many different industries. One area that is growing in use, is Supply Chain Management. …

35,000 Daily Decisions

by Gordon Jones, on December 27, 2018

It is estimated that the average American adult makes somewhere in the neighborhood of 35,000 decisions every day. For sure most of these decisions are quite mundane, such as which pair of socks you put …

Version Control in Decisions

by James Davidson, on December 20, 2018

One of the most common topics that our customers ask about, is the ability to manage different versions of projects in Decisions. Whether you’re looking to manage different versions of rules, workflows or entire projects, …

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