Monday | 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Pre-Conference Tutorials Track

SESSION TITLE

A Framework for Selecting Business Rules Platforms

SPEAKER(s):

John R. Rymer Vice President and Principal Analyst Forrester Research, Inc.

MAIN FOCUS OF PRESENTATION: Business & IT

FAMILIARITY WITH SUBJECT: Novice & Familiar

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

Selecting a platform for business rules applications requires much more than consideration of deep technical features. Features for business analysts and operations staff, fit with other systems within an IT landscape, standards support, fit to application requirements, and vendor strategy are also vital elements of any product selection. Forrester Research has developed a set of detailed criteria on product features and vendor characteristics to guide its clients’ selection of business rules engine. These criteria are at the heart of Forrester’s Wave research methodology for comparing products, and form the basis for a comparison of business rules platform vendors to be published in late 2007. Come to this tutorial to learn how to use the Forrester evaluation criteria and approach to select the best business rules platform for your organization. What you will learn:

• How to evaluate business rules platforms products with criteria tailored to your organization’s requirements.
• How to evaluate business rules platform vendors with criteria tailored to your organization’s requirements.



ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):

As an analyst on Forrester’s Application Development & Architecture research team, John R. Rymer covers the market for application platforms, including business rules platforms, the Java/J2EE application servers from BEA, IBM, JBoss, Oracle, SAP, and Sun Microsystems, and the equivalent portions of Microsoft’s .NET platform. Mr. Rymer has 18 years of experience as an industry analyst, business strategy consultant, and software marketing executive. Previously, Mr. Rymer served as vice president of product marketing at IONA Technologies, where he gained firsthand experience in creating and executing market strategies. In late 1994, he helped to found Giga Information Group, which Forrester acquired in 2003.