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With theincreasing complexity of modernsoftware applications, new approachesare needed to contain development risk, cost, and time to deliver.
Agileis a common-sense approach to development that, when applied correctly, can help reduce development risk, cost, and time by substantial amounts.
But agile approaches to development are not enough on their own. Agility should be measured by business metrics, not IT metrics. A true measure of agility is how quickly and easily the business can respond to changing market conditions, for instance with new productsand new processes. Business agility needs more than just agile development. It needs software platforms that are designed to be agile; and new design patterns that deliver business agility. IDIOM calls these the ‘three dimensions of agile’: Agile development approaches (1); agile enabled platforms (2); and agile business systems (3).
In 2001NZI Insurance,then New Zealand’s largest insurer, approached IDIOM founder Mark Nortonto develop his unique rules engineconcept for use in insurance. He established IDIOM Limited, and that same year the first IDIOM decision engine was in production–the journey towards the ‘three dimensions of agile’ had begun.
IDIOM was founded on the concept that all business content in an applicationcan be separately defined and deployed inside an application ‘container’, where it iscontinuously developed, tested, and deployed by business subject matter expertsusing declarative tools.
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IDIOM’s core competency arises from the practical application of common sense to complex problems