Archive for August, 2008
InRule comes to Australia!
InRule is a widely used Business Rules Engine from the USA. The BRE is a fully featured business rule authoring and management environment. Solentive recently signed sole distribution rights to InRule in Australia. InRule replaces the business logic layer in an application which means that the time needed to develop can be significantly reduced.
Further savings [...]
Microsoft Financing
At the recent partner conference in Far north Queensland, Microsoft announced the launch of its new financing solution. Finance is made available through Microsoft partners for software development projects and software and service deals. Loans are available from 2 or 3 years for amounts up to 10k and 2 to 5 years for [...]
Business Logic Automation
Automation: “the technique, method, or system of operating or controlling a process by highly automatic means, as by electronic devices, reducing human intervention to a minimum. ”
Business Logic: “the underlying system of reasoning used to actualize business intent”
Business Logic Automation: “The process of automating business logic creation, modification, verification, distribution, and application”
Business logic automation is [...]
Blogging From word
There’s a really neat feature in Word 2007 that I thought I would give a wurl. It’s simple but effective and it allows you to blog off line directly into word. This is great for me because the most convenient time to post is on the way to work on the train. You can blog [...]
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Intro
Just a quick post for now. This is the sizzle video created by MS for the 4.0 launch. Short, sharp and to the point.
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Free Search Engine Optimisation E-book
Brad Callen is an online partner of mine and he has recently written an ebook about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
If you are unaware of what SEO actually is or what it involves this is a great place to start. In short SEO is the process of getting your side listed on the major search engine(s). [...]
Silicon Beach
There’s a great new google group over at
http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia
There seems to be an enormous amount of buzz in the Australian start up scene at the moment which is great.
I am just getting news on some new funding availability so I will investigate and post details back shortly.
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The Rete Algorithm
Instead the Rete Algorithim is used as a way of calculating the quickest route to proceed. In simple terms, we can create rule on rules. The obvious benefit is that the system can handle much larger amounts of data and faster.
Automate or Perish!
Could we be at such a point in the ‘information age’ that if we haven’t automated your business by now, then you stand to fade away into the background wondering what happened.?
