Decisions Blog

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