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Sapiens DECISION

About DECISION There are many grey areas in the world of business, but automated decision-making should not be one of them. Sapiens DECISION allows business users to discover, model, verify, manage and execute automated business decisions, with black & white clarity, transforming their Business Logic into a centrally controlled strategic asset. DECISION models are validated and tested for integrity and precision, both during their creation and whenever changes are made. Once approved for production, they are either implemented by IT or automatically transformed into executable code. As a hub for the most current Business Logic, DECISION is helping Global 1,000 companies reduce operational cost and risk, simplify business system implementation and speed up time to market for new products, services and updates.

The Decision Model – A new way of looking at Business Logic Business Logic is what drives the decisions in a business. But instead of trying to manage Business Logic one business rule at a time, The Decision Model (TDM) enforces a method that decomposes Business Logic and groups business rules into categories to create a complete decision making model that is simple to understand, verify, communicate and manage. In the past, many companies adopted a natural language approach to business rules. That approach did not address the pain associated with Business Logic discovery and was largely used as a higher order programming language, with little contribution to business’s ability to manage logic as a strategic asset and little impact on business outcomes. Today, organizations have the opportunity to truly put the power of Business Logic into the hands of business users. This capability reduces costs and risk and increases the quality of business rules by adopting a new level of Business Logic articulation. We literally wrote the book on this methodology (and you can get it here). Our model prescribes and enforces the following approach: Decompose Business Logic into a more granular form to ensure that one piece of logic can be changed without affecting any other piece of logic Normalize Business Logic to ensure that each piece of logic is used, stored and maintained in one place Analyze the Business Logic to ensure that it has inferential and business integrity Group Business Logic in a manner that ensures its re-usability across the enterprise, in terms of..

Supporting the normalized logic Once a Decision Model of this type is ready, it can be integrated into the enterprise execution architecture and enable you to:
 * Easily locating and understanding it
 * Maintaining groups of logic rather than many individual business rules
 * Integrating with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
 * Verify model integrity and completeness and test it against data to ensure it truly reflects business requirements

Map business glossary terminology used in Business Logic to specific IT system representations Simplify Business Process Management (BPM) by Removing declarative Business Logic from sequential processes Connecting business rule groups to their natural anchor points in the business processes

A structured model The Decision Model builds Business Logic structures within the scope of a single business decision. Each decision consists of families of business rules that can be represented graphically as per the above diagram. Although the resultant image abstracts the details of individual business rules, further drill-down can reveal “rule families” in the form of decision tables. A rule family allows for the analysis of the logic of a business rule to ensure its integrity. TDM graphically displays business rules at several levels of decomposition detail, with each decision a connection point in the process.

Open and integrated The software model created in this approach contains Business Logic compatible with a Business Rules Management System (BRMS), Business Rules Engine (BRE) or any other programing technology and decision services supported by Business Process Management (BPM) technology. It allows you to plug the model into your existing and future IT architecture because it is agnostic to the implementation.

Enforced integrity The Decision Model is unique in enforcing a rigorous process that ensures model integrity (i.e., making sure it is complete, unambiguous and conflict-free) as part of Business Logic discovery and formulation. It delivers an executable set of logic that can be consistently implemented across multiple business applications.

Proven methodology The Decision Model has proven to be a more cost-effective means of Business Logic notation, harvesting, maintenance and management than traditional means. It also promotes a higher level of understanding of Business Logic and simplifies corporate business processes.

The Only Complete Decision Management Solution Sapiens DECISION SUITE, the only complete decision management solution, is a business tool enabling the discovery, modeling and management of business logic. The new components are available immediately as standalone offerings, or as components of the complete DECISION suite. With the suite, you can create, deploy, maintain and help support a common user experience across all channels: Modeled logic may be distributed across both orchestration and application layers regardless of technology (through decision deployment adapters or decision execution) The terms (fact types) used by the business in the model are maintained in a glossary that is mapped to representations of these terms in the business systems where the logic is to be deployed.