Tuesday | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Chief Architect Track

SESSION TITLE

Integrating Large Enterprise Application Software Deployments with Business Rules

SPEAKER(s):

Peter Still Partner Manager RuleBurst

Michael Fairweather Principal Analyst RuleBurst

MAIN FOCUS OF PRESENTATION: Business

FAMILIARITY WITH SUBJECT: All

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

Customers and analysts are demanding sophisticated extensions to traditional Enterprise Application Software. Clients need to customize Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management and other enterprise applications very rapidly – and maintain the customizations over time. Enterprise Application frameworks need to supplement existing database and workflow capabilities with powerful decision-making. What you will learn:

• How to add very powerful rule-based capabilities to Enterprise Application Software packages
• Approaches to integration for different scenarios, e.g. interactive CRM systems and back office processing
• How the overall solution can affect rule capture and modeling requirements



ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):

Peter Still has worked since 1999 in a range of roles in the business rules industry, from rule analysis and system design to product positioning, analyst relations and business development. He has several years’ experience implementing business rules-based systems in Australia, has worked in the business rules area in the United States for almost two years, and is currently based in the United Kingdom. Peter is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at King’s College, University of London. He has also taught at the Australian National University. Peter is also a qualified lawyer, admitted to practice as a Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.

Michael Fairweather has worked in the business rules industry in the United Kingdom in the roles of rule analyst, business analyst and software developer. He is currently based in the United States, where he has taken a business development role. Michael is a qualified lawyer, admitted to practice as a Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and he worked in the legal profession in Australia and the United Kingdom before becoming involved in business rules. He recently took the lead role in the development of two rulebases for the Britsh tax office in the legal domain.