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We hope you have joined the Process Orchestration webcast series or have seen the recordings.
Each session demonstrated a different aspect of the SAP Middleware platform and all new and continuous investments that make it best in class.
We have received a lot of positive feedback that these sessions were useful to many participants.
This blog series is to help continue the discussion, drill down in each topic, expand on the Q&A and share key takeways from the sessions with our SCN community. Recordings will be available until the end of 2013 to all registrants. Feel free to post your questions in the related blog.
This particular blog is dedicated to the June 12, 2013 Webcast:
“Can your business users adapt business processes at the speed of change? Can they achieve this without help from IT? With business rules they can!”
Is your organization struggling with questions like “Need to change how the process validates invoice completeness”, “change how tax and pricing gets calculated” or „how logistics carriers get selected”…? See how you can accommodate fast change requirements from the business and overcome complexity by empowering business users to effectuate instant changes with Business rules management solutions from SAP.
Get the recording here.
Business Rules Management Solutions from SAP Externalize decision-making logic from applications' code to unleash your business | |
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| SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management | SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management |
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Quick guidelines – when to select which solution | |
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Questions & Answers: |
Q: Is SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management (DSM) still in ramp-up or already generally available? A: It is generally available as of June 21, 2013. |
Q: Can you please provide some examples of typical use cases where SAP NetWeaver DSM can be applied? A: Transparency to business experts and expected change are drivers for usage of SAP NetWeaver DSM. SAP NetWeaver DSM simplifies change and via gained transparency greatly influences the quality of implemented decision making. Typical scenarios are steps in processes where decisions are made in the form of data validation, classifications, groupings, matching things, derivations, etc. Often that has been implemented by custom code and Z tables, or those decisions are not implemented at all (still, tacit knowledge about those decisions is hidden somewhere in guideline documents) because business people do not get the agility they need from the system for decision making. Some of the use cases have a very small scope, just using a decision table to select a tax code, while others are huge, such as decision services for the income tax declaration of a country. Examples per industry: Banking: Relationship based pricing, credit decisioning, scorecards Education: Fee calculations, course selections Healthcare: Patient monitoring, fraud detection, claims Logistics and Shipping: Parts management, duties calculations, pricing calculations Public Sector: Tax calculations, customs duties, land regulations, license fee calculations Insurance: New products, claims settlement, agent commissions |
Q: Is SAP NetWeaver DSM a new way to promote the BRM component in SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration? A: SAP's Business Rules Platform has 2 main legs as to how it is implemented. Depending on where your target client apps reside, you may choose between SAP NetWeaver BRM, or SAP NetWeaver DSM. SAP NetWeaver BRM is closely integrated with SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration and it runs natively on Java. SAP NetWeaver DSM is closely integrated with SAP Business Suite and runs natively on ABAP containers. Both have the ability to get called remotely as decision services/rules services can be wrapped as SOAP Web Services. |
Q: Why does SAP provide two solutions for business rules management? A: SAP provides the means to integrate deeply with the underlying platform because we need to:
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Q: Today we position SAP NetWeaver BRM as a component of SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration. Can I use SAP NetWeaver BRM standalone? A: Yes, both SAP NetWeaver BRM and SAP NetWeaver DSM can be used standalone. |
Q: We have SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.31 Java-only and we have SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration in our landscape. Will SAP NetWeaver DSM add value, as it seems SAP NetWeaver DSM and SAP NetWeaver BRM have almost same features, though one is for Java and the other is ABAP? A: SAP NetWeaver DSM may be used when rules operate on SAP backend data. In such cases, the decision service can be exposed as a Web service and included into a process in SAP NetWeaver BPM. In your case, given the fact that you already have SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration and Process Integration in place, as well as given your skillset, SAP NetWeaver BRM may be the go-to solution. |
Q: How much time does it take from download of the solution to the running decision service? A: This depends very much on the complexity of the underlying business problem. You can download, install, connect, set up authorizations and build a first simple example easily within just 1-2 days. |
Key Takeaways
SAP Rules Solutions allow organizations to…
- Increase the speed and quality of operational decisions by automating complex decision via business-user maintained decision services.
- Become more agile by adapting decision-making logic with applications super-fast.
- Decrease IT cost by empowering business experts to control decision-making logic without IT involvement and system downtimes.
Interested to know more? So what’s next:
- Register or sign in here to access the replay and all additional resources provided as part of the webcast online.
- Check the other webcasts offered as part of this series:
Webcast replay: Process Orchestration overview
Webcast replay: Roadmap of Process Orchestration with SAP
Webcast replay: B2B collaboration with SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration
Webcast replay: SAP Operational Process Intelligence powered by SAP HANA
Q&A: Process Orchestration Webcast Series
- Also visit the SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management Partner Corner to find out about Partner offerings related to SAP NetWeaver DSM.
Thanks to vladimir.dinev and carsten.ziegler for the valuable input.
You are welcome to post your questions here.
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