DMN 1.1 is the first implementable version of the standard. The spec is done, but won't be released to the public until mid-2016. A lot of work went into it, so people are surprised at all the things that are not in it: Business glossary. Howls of anguish went out online when it was revealed that DMN would not specify a Business glossary, a business-maintained data dictionary for decision models. …
One of the singular successes of BPM technology is a common language - BPMN - used both for process modeling and executable design. At least in theory.... In reality, the BPMN created by the business analyst to represent the business requirements for implementation often bears little resemblance to the BPMN created by the BPMS developer, which must cope with real-world details of application …
In the most significant enhancement to its BPMS since the Lombardi acquisition, IBM revealed at Impact this week that case management functionality will be a native feature of BPM 8.5.5, the June 2014 release. I hesitate to say IBM "announced" it, because it was barely mentioned at Impact. In fact, far more attention was paid to IBM Case Manager, aka Filenet P8, even though nothing new was …
Merging BPMN and CMMN standards in OMG is, for the moment at least, a dead issue. The question remains how best to visually represent logic formerly known as case management, which I will henceforth refer to as responsive processes. Responsive processes are driven forward by events (including ad-hoc user action) and conditions, rather than by sequence flow. In a responsive process, an activity is …
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If you're like most people trying to find out about DMN by reading the spec, you focus on the diagrams and examples. And you probably come away thinking, Yikes, what a mess! The thing that elicits this response from most people is the proliferation of business knowledge models (BKMs), those rectangles with clipped corners that seem to be stuffed in every nook and cranny of the DRD.
I've been heads-down for a while working on a new book and training: DMN Method and Style. The Decision Modeling and Notation standard now promises to transform the world of proprietary decision management software in the same way that BPMN upended the world of workflow, EAI, and business process analysis software a decade ago. Do we even use those terms any more?? DMN is a business-oriented …
bpmNEXT 2016 just concluded its fourth event this week in Santa Barbara, and it was even better than ever! One highlight for me was the rapid pace of progress in DMN implementation. Before this event I was beginning to despair that tool vendors would implement only the barest outlines of DMN, nothing that could fulfill the promise of a business-friendly, model-based, executable, tool-independent …
Since my last post on the current state of the DMN tools market, I've learned a bit more from a few vendors... Sapiens Decision The Decision Model, on which the Sapiens offering is based, can be viewed as a progenitor of DMN, but I was unaware of Sapiens' intent to support the DMN standard in their offerings. That is significant. Where most DMN tools start with barebones decision modeling, Sapiens …
It's still early days for DMN, but a number of tools are available or have been publicly demonstrated. Here is my impression of where we are at the moment. DecisionsFirst Modeler James Taylor's free DecisionsFirst Modeler was one of the first DMN tools available. It allows a business user to draw DRDs and enter a wealth of business context behind each decision node. Instead of providing a DMN …