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DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://edw2010.wilshireconferences.com/sessionPop.cfm?confid=38&proposalid=2268\nThis tutorial explains what decision models are about, and how they relate to business rules, data models, and business process models. In-depth, hands-on skills are developed, including how to build decision tables and structured business vocabularies. Drawing heavily from real-life experience, Mr. Ross and Ms. Lam detail a carefully crafted step-by-step approach to organize and develop pragmatic, effective solutions.\nBusinesses today need techniques better suited for semantically-rich problems and specialized business know-how. This presentation explains how a declarative, data-friendly approach is far better for tackling these problems than process models, use cases or other traditional methods. Key to success is maintaining a consistent focus on the business side, and knowing how and when to engage business people in the origination, validation, management, and governance of decisioning artifacts.  \nDecision models based on structured business vocabularies and business rules offer practical new techniques to create more effective business solutions, to energize and accelerate the requirements process, and to inform data models as never before. These innovative methods have proven highly successful in organizations of many different types and sizes. This workshop gives you the opportunity to brainstorm these new techniques with the leaders in the field.\n<ul>\n<li>Understand decision models, decision tables and business rules</li>\n<li>Coordinate decisioning artifacts with business vocabularies and data models</li>\n<li>Communicate more successfully with both the business side and IT</li>\n<li>Improve the requirements process and complement process models</li>\n<li>Capture and organize knowledge in data-friendly fashion</li>\n<li>Organize and run a decisioning project</li></ul>
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SUMMARY:W8: Decision Models and Business Rules: Everything Data Professionals Need to Know
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