First, I'd like to intorduce myself a little. I've worked at several IT areas +10 yrs, and one of my current researches is business rules, especially rule engine. My main purpurse is to expand business rules in Japan as well as Aisan market. My research is not only vendor production but also open source. If you're interested in entering Japanese market, please contact myself.
Last year, I took part in Business Rules Forum 2003 in Nashville (see: http://www.businessrulesforum.com/business_rules_forum.htm). Also this year joined OMG working group meeting and Eclipse Conference in Anaheim (see: http://www.omg.org). This year I'm going to Business Rules Forum 2004 in Las Vegas on Nov 7-11 (see: http://www.businessrulesforum.com/), maybe.
One of my contributions is that I translated "Business RUles Applied by Barbara von Halle" (see: ASIN:0471412937) into Japanese. It took +6 months for +500 pages. However, sorry that this Japanese book is not published yet. Fortunitley, you could find it on some web sites. Also there are chances, I'd like to translate and publish some English books.
The market of business rules in Japan seems still very very small, but I definitely believe in this area would expand rapidly year by year to catch up with us. I think Gartner reported the market prediction a few yrs ago. And not just an element as rule engine, other philosopy and technology must need business rules to establish gigantic, agile, and robust business application or business system.
If I had enough resource as money and people, I would like to produce my own rules engine, but ... Just a dream!!
In Japan, some engineers are making their own rule engine. I don't have any contacts yet. It, however, seems quite interesintg.
[news] [infoworld]
http://www.infoworld.com/reports/26SRbizrules.html
Putting rules engines to work
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/25/26FEbizrules_1.html?s=feature
Business rules management systems
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/25/26FEbizrulesspecs_1.html?s=feature
New standards open up BRMS
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/25/26FEbizrulesgloss_1.html?s=feature
Business rules for newbies
Last year, I took part in Business Rules Forum 2003 in Nashville (see: http://www.businessrulesforum.com/business_rules_forum.htm). Also this year joined OMG working group meeting and Eclipse Conference in Anaheim (see: http://www.omg.org). This year I'm going to Business Rules Forum 2004 in Las Vegas on Nov 7-11 (see: http://www.businessrulesforum.com/), maybe.
One of my contributions is that I translated "Business RUles Applied by Barbara von Halle" (see: ASIN:0471412937) into Japanese. It took +6 months for +500 pages. However, sorry that this Japanese book is not published yet. Fortunitley, you could find it on some web sites. Also there are chances, I'd like to translate and publish some English books.
The market of business rules in Japan seems still very very small, but I definitely believe in this area would expand rapidly year by year to catch up with us. I think Gartner reported the market prediction a few yrs ago. And not just an element as rule engine, other philosopy and technology must need business rules to establish gigantic, agile, and robust business application or business system.
If I had enough resource as money and people, I would like to produce my own rules engine, but ... Just a dream!!
In Japan, some engineers are making their own rule engine. I don't have any contacts yet. It, however, seems quite interesintg.
[news] [infoworld]
http://www.infoworld.com/reports/26SRbizrules.html
Putting rules engines to work
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/25/26FEbizrules_1.html?s=feature
Business rules management systems
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/25/26FEbizrulesspecs_1.html?s=feature
New standards open up BRMS
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/25/26FEbizrulesgloss_1.html?s=feature
Business rules for newbies