How are business rules, predictive analytics and optimization giving businesses greater agility? This topic will be explored in depth at the first Enterprise Decision Management Summit, October 26-30, 2008, in Orlando, Florida. And ViewPoints readers can attend this premier event at a discounted rate.

For businesses interested in advancing their use of decision logic and analytics, the conference comes at an opportune time.

“Clearly, the idea of managing decisions across your enterprise is picking up momentum,” says James Taylor, co-chair of the EDM Summit with Neil Raden. “This conference complements Fair Isaac’s own InterACT conferences, giving business users and IT architects a chance to discuss new technologies and approaches.”

The EDM Summit is part of the 11th International Business Rules Forum, but will appeal not only to IT professionals but to risk managers, modelers, marketers and others who need to advance the precision, consistency and agility of their decisions. Organizers Taylor and Raden are coauthors of a book about Enterprise Decision Management, Smart (Enough) Systems, published last year.

Focus on rules, analytics, optimization

The 13 sessions that form the Enterprise Decision Management Summit include presentations by Fair Isaac experts and clients. Key sessions include:

• Succeeding as a Decision-Centric Organization (Tutorial)
  Neil Raden and James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, Co-Founders
  
• Rules and Process Management for Insurers
  Owen Williams, Chubb and Sons, Vice President of Specialty
  Ian Brodie, Fair Isaac Corporation, Client Partner
  
• Building a Decision Engine
  Chris Collard, Dell Inc., Senior Solutions Architect
  
• State-of-the-Art Optimization—Technical Advances
  Alkis Vazacopoulos, Fair Isaac Corporation, Vice President, Research
  
• Tools to Rule—Building Blocks of Enterprise Decision Management
  Michelle Edelman, Discover Financial Services, Director, Risk Management
  
• New Approaches to Creating, Visualizing and Comparing Strategies
  Stuart Crawford, Fair Isaac Corporation, Vice President, Research
  
• Sun's Risk Analysis System: A Study in Risk Mitigation
  Rex Martin Ph.D, Sun Microsystems, Principal Engineer and Senior Architect
  Paris Bingham, Sun Microsystems, Principal Engineer and Senior Architect
  
• Top 10 Data Mining Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)
  John Elder, Elder Research, Inc., Chief Scientist

The conference will also feature an exclusive video keynote by Tom Davenport, coauthor of Competing on Analytics.

Special offer for ViewPoints readers

As a media sponsor of the Enterprise Decision Management Summit, ViewPoints offers you a $100 discount on registration. Registration includes four concurrent events: the Enterprise Decision Management Summit, Business Rules Forum, Rules Technology Summit and Product Expo.

Learn more and register online at www.edmsummit.com. Use the code 8MSDS for the ViewPoints discount.