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Reinventing the wheel -- Decision Automation

James Taylor, in the EDM blog, recently commented on "structured decision systems" (SDS). James mentioned Rob Meredith's blog post on the subject at Monash University. Rob's post is at http://monashbi.blogspot.com/2007/11/it-archaeology-whatever-happened-to-sds.html. You can read James's comments at http://www.edmblog.com/weblog/.

The bottom line is that we have been trying to use computers to apply rules for routine, structured decisions for more than 40 years. Enterprise Decision Management or EDM is another buzzword. I'm as guilty as James, I am promoting use of the phrase "decision automation" at DecisionAutomation.com.

The fact is that we can automate and routinize many more decision today than at anytime in the past 40 years and the needs for and cost benefits of decision automation, structured decision systems or enterprise decision management are driving adoption.

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