Knowledge Partners International, LLP (KPI) is the thought leader in the field of business rules and business decisions. The company has long led in, and is well-known for its intellectual property focusing on the practical delivery of a business rules approach to BPM projects, SOA projects, and pure business-driven projects. KPI’s STEP methodology is used by many of the Global 1000 companies to implement their business rules approach. KPI’s Rules Maturity Model (RMM) is a tool which has provided organizations the means to chart their potential ROI from a business rules approach, from early pilots to technologically advanced solutions. The Decision Model Now KPI announce another breakthrough in the world of business rules. The Decision Model is a technology and platform independent model of business logic that revolutionizes the practice of business rules. It models logic based on the inherent structure of that logic ensuring a consistent and stable presentation. Do we need another model? We already have process models, use case models, logical data models, dimensional models, canonical models, fact models, object models and so forth. Do we really need yet another model to learn and to manage? Consider that there is no innovative model for business rules like the relational model is for data. Without such a model, any way of organizing business rules is unacceptable because there is no mechanism, such as normalization principles, to measure the value of the organization. Without such a model, how were we to organize business rules in a predictable repeatable manner? How could we send out two analysts who would come back with the same business rule representation? Without such a model, how successful can the business rules approach really be? How successful would data management be today without a universal underlying model for data? Why use a Decision Model? Decision models can be prioritized and assessed as true business investments. This makes it relatively easy to justify building them. If a decision model is not going to save money, minimize risk, align with compliance or increase revenue and profit, it may not be worth creating and managing. Business leaders find entire decision models to be more tangible and relevant than individual business rules. This gives rise to the emerging discipline of enterprise/business decision management (EDM, BDM). In other words, business leaders want and need to manage business decisions, not individual business rules in a vacuum. Business people easily appreciate the value of decision models to the business itself. In other words, the decision model elevates business rules and logic to the status of a tangible and manageable business asset. Even more, an entire decision model can be tied to business performance metrics. In this way, the decision model emerges as a means for tuning the business’s operations and reaching business objectives. A decision model is successful if it leads the business to desired targets, otherwise the decision model needs to be tuned. Share in the Resources We have provided a wide variety of Decision Model resources and information to enable companies to evaluate the Decision Model at www.TheDecisionModel.com.
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