Decisions Blog

Elements of Business Rule Management: Unit Test Framework
Elements of Business Rule Management: Unit Test Framework
by Carl Hewitt, on
Unit testing business rules with Decisions.  Read More
Elements of Business Rule Management: Rule Repository
Elements of Business Rule Management: Rule Repository
by Carl Hewitt, on
Highlighting the rule repository in Decisions.  Read More
Information Week 500: Innovate with Business Process Automation
Information Week 500: Innovate with Business Process Automation
by Kevin Lindquist, on
Business Process Automation is ‘so hot right now’ according to data from a recent Information Week survey.  Read More
Process View Pages. Getting better all the time.
Process View Pages. Getting better all the time.
by Kevin Lindquist, on
Taking a look at a recent update to the Decisions Platform.  Read More
Email Response to Workflow
Email Response to Workflow
by Kevin Lindquist, on
Workflow with Email. Email is a primary method of communication for everybody in your organization. One of the new features of Decisions 2.2 is the ability to respond to workflow tasks via email. Configuring this option involves setting up on an assigned form a few options like what is the outbound email to say, what […]  Read More
Flexible Business Applications: Embedded Rule Engine and Workflow
Flexible Business Applications: Embedded Rule Engine and Workflow
by Carl Hewitt, on
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
Decisions Platform: Rules and Workflow on Microsoft Azure
by Carl Hewitt, on
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
Decisions Platform: Rules and Workflow on Amazon AWS
by Carl Hewitt, on
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!
Introducing Decisions 2.2: Workflow Automation Just Got Even Better!
by Kevin Lindquist, on
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
Top 20 Platform Features: XAML/Silverlight UI and Workflow Automation
by Carl Hewitt, on
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?
Why Blog About Decisions?
by Carl Hewitt, on
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
Telephony in Workflow Automation
by Carl Hewitt, on
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?
Business Process Management Factory?
by Carl Hewitt, on
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
Workflow Automation with Silverlight and HTML 5
by Carl Hewitt, on
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
Clever Little Applications: Workflow, Business Rules, and More
by Carl Hewitt, on
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
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