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Fun Labs!
Demystify the technology!
Ever wonder how some of the rule and decisioning tools work, and how they may fit with your organization's needs? Here's your
chance to get a feel for what the vendors' packages can do! Pick the technology solutions that interest
you most, and take them on a test-drive on laptops and facilitated case studies provided by the vendors.
Included with your Registration to the Conferences
Sign up for the Fun Lab sessions that interest you most. Seats are strictly limited for each session to ensure
the best hands-on experience for everyone.
Get your pick of the FunLabs!
Each attendee at the Forum Conferences gets to choose a Fun Lab! from those available at the time of registration.
We are anticipating the Fun Labs! will fill up fast. Participation is limited. Register early -
Get your best pick! Visitors can pre-register for their desired FunLab session(s) when they Register for
the Conference through our website.
Schedule of Events:
Monday, October 27, 2008:
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4:45 p.m.
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6:45 p.m.
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Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor® 101
Attendees will gain familiarity with the Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor® development environment. Users will access and review an existing object model, create a new ruleset and rules, and integrate into a pre-built ruleflow. Additionally, the process of deploying business rules using Quick Deployers will be covered. This session is recommended for beginning users with technical experience.
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Building rule-based applications in Java
Intended Audience: Developers
ILOG JRules provides a comprehensive, Eclipse-based environment that allows developers to quickly and efficiently build rule-based applications. This session will take participants through the process of designing and deploying a rule project that controls the behavior of a web application. Participants will also learn how ongoing rules maintenance can be passed to business users through ILOG’s Rule Team Server.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008:
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2:05 p.m.
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4:05 p.m.
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The Business User Experience with Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor®
Attendees will experience the power and ease of authoring, editing and maintaining rules using the rule maintenance application (RMA). Focusing on a business scenario, participants will walk through a current rules-based application, making changes to the rules being used, re-test the results and deploy new rules through an approval process. Additionally, Decision Simulator, the newly developed simulation capability, will be used to build scenarios and compare them in order to assess the impact of the changes on the business. The technical development environment will not be used. This session is recommended for all users (business or technical).
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Building rule-based applications in .NET
Intended Audience: Developers
ILOG Rules for .NET provides a comprehensive, Visual Studio-based environment that allows developers to quickly and efficiently build rule-based applications. This session will take participants through the process of designing and deploying a rule project that controls the behavior of a web application. Participants will also learn how ongoing rules maintenance can be passed to business users through ILOG’s Rule Solutions for Office System.
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Build for Change: Rules and Process for Business Agility
“Rules and process are the mind and backbone of an agile business. Join Pegasystems for a hands-on Fun Lab to build and change an application using business rules to define policy, process flow to handle procedure, and RIA tools to improve user experience. Learn how Pega’s unified approach lets you abstract and re-use all components of a flexible ‘Build for Change®’ application.”
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5:30 p.m.
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7:30 p.m.
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Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor® for the Enterprise
Attendees will be introduced to Fair Isaac’s best practices in developing an enterprise repository using Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor®, with a focus on definition of projects and how they work. In this session, users will learn how to use objects from different architectures, assemble components for different decisions and deployments and acquire tips for quick deployment. This session is recommended for advanced technical users
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Managing rules and requirements using Rule Team Server
Intended Audience: Business Analysts
ILOG Rule Team Server is a web-based rule management environment, allowing business users to easily author, maintain, validate and deploy business rules. This session will allow participants to use Rule Team Server and learn how it provides a safe, easy and predictable rule management environment, resulting in faster response to change and improved competitive advantage.
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Build for Change: Rules and Process for Business Agility
“Rules and process are the mind and backbone of an agile business. Join Pegasystems for a hands-on Fun Lab to build and change an application using business rules to define policy, process flow to handle procedure, and RIA tools to improve user experience. Learn how Pega’s unified approach lets you abstract and re-use all components of a flexible ‘Build for Change®’ application.”
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008:
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1:40 p.m.
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3:40 p.m.
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Lifecycle management of business rules
Attendees will learn how Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor® manages the rules lifecycle from development to testing to production. Besides managing workflows with approvals, participants will get a flavor of rules versioning, unit testing, business scenario testing, and verification (for example, detecting missing conditions or overlaps) within the context of a predefined rules project. This session is recommended for intermediate technical users.
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Managing rules and requirements using Microsoft Office
Intended Audience: Business Analysts
ILOG Rule Solutions for Office System allows business users to easily author, maintain and validate business rules directly from within Microsoft Word and Excel, along with the ability to manage rule documents within Microsoft Office Sharepoint. This session will allow participants to use Rule Solution for Office System and learn how it provides safe, easy and predictable management of rules and requirements using familiar desktop applications, resulting in faster response to change and improved competitive advantage.
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Prove Your Worth:
Calculating the Value of Your BRE Application
If you are considering bringing a Business Rule Engine (BRE) in-house or extending your use of a BRE to additional applications, you may be asked to justify your recommendation to management. You can use a spreadsheet to compare the costs of developing an application with and without a BRE, but that doesn’t take into account ongoing maintenance, operational costs, and opportunity costs. And it isn’t much fun.
In this Fun Lab, you will help create a BRE-powered application that will quantify the value of deploying a business rule engine over the lifecycle of an application. Using the provided requirements, your experience, and InRule—the premier business rule engine for .NET—you’ll compete with colleagues to develop the best application. Judges will award a prize to the individual or team that best demonstrates the value of a Business Rule Engine.
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onRules: a technical approach
In this technical-oriented session we will show you how onRules, the cutting-edge BRMS, makes the cooperation and coordination between IT and business areas much easier, hence enabling business users and IT managers to take shared responsibility about the enterprise's rules. We will discuss how onRules´s J2EE and SOA-based technical architecture facilitates both a centralized (amongst different areas or departments) and integrated (with others applications and corporative systems, with the environments used for IT…) rules management. Last, but not least, we will provide the attendees with an overview of the functionality, mainly emphasizing those topics which are typically sorted out in IT areas: development environments, data access, definition of complex rules using scripting tools…
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4:00 p.m.
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6:00 p.m.
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Enhancing Decision Management – Operationalizing Models
Attendees will be introduced to deploying predictive models with Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor®. In this session, users will bring in predictive analytic models directly into Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor® without coding, then learn how they can be executed in an operational environment. This session is recommended for technical business analysts.
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Managing rules and requirements using Rule Team Server
Intended Audience: Business Analysts
ILOG Rule Team Server is a web-based rule management environment, allowing business users to easily author, maintain, validate and deploy business rules. This session will allow participants to use Rule Team Server and learn how it provides a safe, easy and predictable rule management environment, resulting in faster response to change and improved competitive advantage.
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Prove Your Worth:
Calculating the Value of Your BRE Application
If you are considering bringing a Business Rule Engine (BRE) in-house or extending your use of a BRE to additional applications, you may be asked to justify your recommendation to management. You can use a spreadsheet to compare the costs of developing an application with and without a BRE, but that doesn’t take into account ongoing maintenance, operational costs, and opportunity costs. And it isn’t much fun.
In this Fun Lab, you will help create a BRE-powered application that will quantify the value of deploying a business rule engine over the lifecycle of an application. Using the provided requirements, your experience, and InRule—the premier business rule engine for .NET—you’ll compete with colleagues to develop the best application. Judges will award a prize to the individual or team that best demonstrates the value of a Business Rule Engine.
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onRules: a business approach
OnRules, Delta-R´s BRMS, represents the next generation of business rules platforms. In this interactive session, we will walk through the main onRule´s functionalities. We will start from the standard initial point with the creation of the basic, appropriate administration and management structure for the study case (security, environments, decision scenario, etc). On request of our attendees, we will continue defining different types of predictive models and business rules: simple rules, scoring, neural networks…. To conclude, we will simulate how a business user can test and deploy the rules we have created from this all-in-one seamless platform.
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