Below is a list of terms, acronyms and keywords used in the rules, decision, process and knowledge management space.

Terms, Acronyms, Abbreviations glossary

• analysis
  • business analysis (BA)
  • business analyst (BA)
  • systems analysis (SA)
  • systems analyst (SA)
• architecture
  • business architect (BA)
  • business architecture (BA)
  • business process architect (BPA)
  • business rules architect (BRA)
  • enterprise architect (EA)
  • enterprise architecture (EA)
  • systems architect (SA)
  • systems architecture (SA)
• artificial intelligence (A.I.)
  • expert system (ES)
  • knowledge-based system (KBS)
  • rules-based system (RBS)
  • natural language
  • vision
  • robotics
• business analysis

• business process management (BPM)
  • business process management notation (BPMN)
  • business process management system (BPMS)
    • IBM® Business Process Manager
    • PegaRULES Process Commander® rules-driven BPM (PRPC ™)
    • PegaRULES Business Analyst
    • PegaRULES Business Architect
  • business process optimization (BPO)
  • document management
  • workflow
• business rules management (BRM)
  • business rules (BR)
  • business rule engine (BRE)
  • business rule analysis
  • business rules approach
  • business rules architecture
  • business rules management system (BRMS)
    • BOSCH Visual Rules BRMS
    • FICO Blaze Advisor BRMS
    • IBM ODM (IBM Operational Decision Management)
    • IBM ILOG ODM Enterprise (JRules)
    • PegaRULES Process Commander (PRPC)
    • Progress Corticon BRMS
    • Red Hat JBoss BRMS (DROOLS)
    • Note: see my BIZRULES® BRE Family Tree™ for others
  • business rules methodology
    • BIZRULES® VISION™ Business Rules Methodology
  • left-hand side (LHS)
  • right-hand side (RHS)
  • rulebase, rule engine, inference engine, reasoning engine
  • rule chain, backward-chaining, forward-chaining.
  • reasoning chain (RC)
  • rule definition (RD)
  • rule harvesting (RH)
  • rules of procedure (ROP)
• business strategy
  • ease of doing business with (EODBW)
• case management (CM)

• centers
  • center of competency (COC)
  • center of excellence (COE)
• change management

• customer relationship management (CRM)
  • Pega CRM
  • loyalty management (LM)
• data management
  • data architecture
  • data quality
  • data warehousing
  • extract, transform, load (ETL)
  • production data fixes (PDX)
• decision management
  • big data
  • big data analytics (hidden patterns, relationships, and correlations)
  • data mining
  • predictive analytics
  • business decision management system (BDMS)
    • IBM Operational Decision Management (ODM)
    • FICO® Decision Management Platform
    • Sapiens DECISION BDMS
  • decision modeling notation (DMN)
  • The Decision Model (TDM)
  • decision engine
  • decisioning engine
  • enterprise decision management (EDM)
• design
  • fault-tolerant (FT)
  • high level design (HLD)
  • low level design (LLD)
  • highly reliable (HR)
  • highly scalable (HS)
• development
  • lead developer (LD)
  • rule author (RA)
  • rules programmer (RP)
• engineering

• enterprise architecture (EA)
  • Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF)
  • Treasury Enterprise Architecture Framework (TEAF)
  • Zachman Enterprise Architecture Framework (ZEAF)
• event management
  • complex event management (CEP)
• knowledge management (KM)
  • domain expert
  • knowledge acquisition (KA)
  • knowledge engineering (KE)
  • knowledge modeling (KM)
  • knowledge representation (KR)
    • compiled rules
    • decision graphs
    • decision tables
    • decision trees
    • if then rules
    • inference rules
    • fuzzy logic
    • linear rules
    • probabilistic reasoning
    • scorecards
    • sequential rules
  • knowledge engineering (KE)
  • knowledge transfer function (KTF)
  • subject matter expert (SME)
• marketing
  • 121 - one-to-one personalization
  • real-time marketing (RTM)
  • social, mobile, analytics, cloud (SMAC)
• methods tools and techniques
  • agile / scrum
    • user stories
  • six sigma
    • lean
    • total quality management (TQM)
  • root cause analysis (RCA)
• modeling
• concept map / semantic map
• conceptual modeling / semantic modeling
• data modeling
• decision modeling
• fact modeling
• predictive modeling
• process modeling
• rules modeling
• taxonomy
• terms & concepts (T&C)
• terms & conditions (T&C)
• terms & definitions (T&D)
• terms & relationships (T&R)
• models
  • data model
  • fact model (FM)
  • process model
  • rule model
  • ruleflow model
  • team capacity model (TCM)
• optimization
  • advanced planning and optimization (APO)
• planning
  • business planning
  • project planning
  • strategic planning
• product management (PM)
  • product backlog
  • product capabilities document (PCD)
  • product management system (PMS)
• program management (PM)
  • master projects and programs list (MPPL)
  • portfolio management
• project management (PM)
  • business case
  • business partner
  • cross teams (XT)
  • project planning & conrol (PP&C)
  • project manager (PM)
  • project management office (PMO)
  • project management body of knowledge (PMBOK)
  • team lead (TL)
• requirements management
  • business requirements (BR)
  • functional requirements (FR, FREQ)
  • functional specifications (FS)
  • system requirements (SREQ)
  • use case (UC)
  • user stories
• rule architecture frameworks
  • data, rules, process (DRP) integration architecture
  • detect and prevent (DAP) rules architecture
  • event condition action (ECA) rules architecture
  • next best action (NBA) rules architecture
  • sense and respond (SAR) rules architecture
• sales force automation (SFA)

• supply chain management (SCM)
  • advanced planning and optimization (APO)
  • demand forecast  (DF)
  • distribution center (DC)
  • forecast, order, ship, build (FOSB)
  • stock transport order (STO)
• testing
  • post production validation (PPV)
  • system acceptance test (SAT)
  • system integration test (SIT)
  • test data
  • test scripts
  • unit acceptance test (UAT)
• training
  • training and communications plan (TCP)

Organizations

• analysts
  • Forrester
  • Gartner
• standards
• Industrial Internet Consortium (iiconsortium.org, IIC)
• Object Management Group (OMG, OMG Blog)

Other

• to be continued ...

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