Decisions Blog

Flexible Business Applications: Embedded Rule Engine and Workflow

by Carl Hewitt, on 9/29/2012

One of the questions that we commonly get asked is ‘my company produces or has a software application that does __________, how does Decisions work with us?’ The reason we are contacted is almost universally the same – the applications do a great job at solving a task but need to be more flexible. The […] Read More

Decisions Platform: Rules and Workflow on Microsoft Azure

by Carl Hewitt, on 9/28/2012

With our 2.2 release, we are fully supporting being hosted on Microsoft Azure. We are pretty excited that our leading rule and workflow platform can now in this cloud! With Azure, Microsoft has reduced much of the complexity around scaling the data and processing architecture – removing some of the management of the physical deployment […] Read More

Decisions Platform: Rules and Workflow on Amazon AWS

by Carl Hewitt, on 9/27/2012

We recently annouced support for Microsoft Azure, however, wanted to highlight something that we have had for quite a while – ability to run on and integrate with the Amazon AWS cloud services. Our support for AWS extends back to our intial releases. Our servers can be hosted on and we can integrate with the […] Read More

Introducing Decisions 2.2: Workflow Automation Just Got Even Better!

by Kevin Lindquist, on 9/21/2012

The wheel in the sky has continued to turn, and we are very happy to announce the release of Decisions 2.2! (Journey has a regular spot in our daily playlist if you haven’t noticed.) Over the next few weeks we will be highlighting some of the new features. Here is a brief list of what […] Read More

Top 20 Platform Features: XAML/Silverlight UI and Workflow Automation

by Carl Hewitt, on 8/27/2012

Because the Decisions Platform is targeted at rule and process intensive business applications – and has a full set of business focused design technologies that all our customers applications to be customized and tuned without writing code – the user experience of being able to be fully interactive while doing complex tasks was very important […] Read More

Why Blog About Decisions?

by Carl Hewitt, on 7/27/2012

I do not like business books. Generally, do not like blogs either. Here is my reasoning, if these guys were so good – they would NOT be sharing their scarce thoughts with the world. Would you rather build the next google or write a blog article on how a new algorithm will change the speed […] Read More

Telephony in Workflow Automation

by Carl Hewitt, on 5/6/2012

The decisions workflow engine can be used to handle the backend of both SMS and IVR (interactive voice response) telephony integration. We do this by integrating with both Twilio and Plivo who provide an API layer for handling the telephony. To use this feature you need to have access to either a Twilio or Plivo […] Read More

Business Process Management Factory?

by Carl Hewitt, on 5/4/2012

Creating software is hard… Automating processes is even harder because it combines the discipline of having to create software (structure data, produce language, interact with a user) as well as the need to bring along the humans who have to do the work. So, the question… Is Business Process Management and Process sofware to the […] Read More

Workflow Automation with Silverlight and HTML 5

by Carl Hewitt, on 5/2/2012

Decisions, a workflow automation platform, was an early adopter of Silverlight. Working with SL since the first beta release, we have been overall very happy with it. Being able to process and manage the user interface on the client, using a rich language (c#) has enabled us to really push the boundaries of what is […] Read More

Clever Little Applications: Workflow, Business Rules, and More

by Carl Hewitt, on 4/25/2012

There will soon be a software application for every business need. There is no shortage of people out there building software for very specialized niches. An example of this was an employee who said ‘we really need to use a few software products to manage some client project. We need a file sharing to send […] Read More