On the blog of Rittman Mead Consulting i’m reading about his first look at one the new tools Oracle lately bought, Oracle Real-Time Decisions (RTD).
At the moment BI and business modeling are two different worlds. Also at my current project we’re still missing the real integration between BI and the business processes we’re modeling. Oracle got a nice stack of products for fulfill the BI needs, and to model the business processes we use Oracle BPEL with a ‘custom business rule implementation’.
Nice tools for both worlds, but still no integration between them. Oracle Real-Time Decisions, as what we can expect from the name, gives us real-time decisions. So we can model the business process and include real-time decisions in it, instead of ’static’ (non-self-learning) rules. In short, RTD uses a data-mining engine which can receive all the data/events needed to take a real-time self-learning decision and this outcome can be used in the business-process. See this post for the complete article.
On OTN you will find a nice ‘Oracle by Example’ for getting started.
Its too early to draw any conclusions, but i see a lot of added value for RTD. IT-eye does a lot of BI and SOA projects, and the customer will see nice results when both can be integrated for fulfilling his business needs.
