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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.
Monday, November 2, 2009:
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4:45 p.m.
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6:45 p.m.
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Rules Architect Experience with FICO™ Blaze Advisor® Business Rules Management System
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 be discussed but will not be used. This session is recommended for all users (business or technical).
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009:
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2:05 p.m.
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4:05 p.m.
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Rules Architect Experience with FICO™ Blaze Advisor® Business Rules Management System
Attendees will gain familiarity with the FICO™ 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 a technical background.
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Empowering Business Users to Regain Ownership of Business Objectives with Visual Rules
Experience how Visual Rules can be used to empower business users to create and manage the business rules within their organizations. Also see how truly agile business applications can be quickly created using the most intuitive and visual approach to modeling business rules.
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5:30 p.m.
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7:30 p.m.
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Predictive Analytics for Business Rule Developers
Attendees will gain insights into how predictive modeling is done and how it benefits your rules-based applications. Being able to "speak the language" of your modelers will let you work in closer cooperation and enable you to more effectively incorporate their models into your systems. Attendees will also be introduced to deploying predictive models with FICO™ Blaze Advisor® business rules management system. Users will import predictive analytic models directly into Blaze Advisor without coding and then learn how they can be executed in an operational environment. This session is recommended for beginning users with a technical background.
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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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Business Rules for Business People
Audience: Non-technical business users and business analysts
RuleXpress is the first true general rulebook system for business-driven decision management. Come to
this hands-on session and experience what that can mean for your business. It's not about IT deployment
or run-time execution of rules. It's about what the business needs in front of any rule engine (or none!)
to make business rules and decision management a reality. Just some of the things you'll see:
interactive support for business vocabulary in writing business-friendly rules, comprehensive on-demand
traceability, rule quality before you implement, community sharing and adoption, integrated fact models,
reporting, and much more. Come find out first-hand why RuleXpress is the break-through tool for
managing an agile business. It's just common sense!
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009:
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2:00 p.m.
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4:00 p.m.
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Rules Architect Experience with FICO™ Blaze Advisor® Business Rules Management System
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 be discussed but will not be used. This session is recommended for all users (business or technical).
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Empowering Business Users to Regain Ownership of Business Objectives with Visual Rules
Experience how Visual Rules can be used to empower business users to create and manage the business rules within their organizations. Also see how truly agile business applications can be quickly created using the most intuitive and visual approach to modeling business rules.
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A Day In the Life of a Business Rule, From Creation to Validation
Audience: Business analysts and non-technical business experts
What exactly is easy, safe and reliable management of business rules? Spend 2 hours with IBM taking business rules through the entire governance lifecycle, learning how non-technical users can author, test, simulate and analyze rule changes using tools designed specifically for their needs. This session will allow participants to work both in the web-based WebSphere ILOG Rule Team Server environment and in Microsoft Word and Excel using WebSphere ILOG Rule Solutions for Office.
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4:30 p.m.
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6:30 p.m.
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Rules Architect Experience with FICO™ Blaze Advisor® Business Rules Management System
Attendees will gain familiarity with the FICO™ 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 a technical background.
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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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