SAP Unveils SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management

Helping organisations to quickly react to changing business and regulatory requirements and adapt processes in enterprise applications, SAP AG has announced SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management. The software aims to allow organisations to move decision logic that determines the process behaviour in enterprise applications into a central location. From there, SAP intends to enable business owners and IT experts to easily and instantaneously set up and change decision logic. The approach is planned to provide a cost-effective and simplified alternative to extensive application customising, custom coding and application embedded business rules.

In the past, changes to decision logic in enterprise applications were done exclusively by IT experts. SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management is intended to empower domain experts to define and change decision logic without any IT staff involvement. This aims to not only speed up changes in automated business processes, but also to improve the efficiency of IT and business staff within the organisation. Additionally, SAP plans to enable users to continuously optimise the decision services and make them available without requiring costly downtime of the connected enterprise applications. To avoid time-consuming, error-prone duplication, it is planned that decision services being used by multiple connected enterprise applications will only need to be created once.

“The ability to react and adapt to new business requirements is more important now than ever,” said Sethu M, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, SAP AG. “SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management intends to give organisations the ability to continuously and quickly optimise their business processes by empowering business experts to implement and change automated operational decisions in enterprise applications.”