Decision requirements models allow business analysts, architects and decision designers to describe the decision-making they need. When these models are combined with business-friendly business rules representations, non-technical domain experts can represent critical “know-how” accurately and precisely resulting in faster time to value and fewer errors. This webinar shows how and why to integrate DecisionsFirst Modeler and SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management.

1. Managing and
Evolving Decisions
with DecisionsFirst
Modeler and SAP
NetWeaver Decision
Service Management
JamesTaylor
CEO
Carsten Ziegler
Chief Product
Owner

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Your Presenters
James Taylor
CEO of Decision
Management Solutions
James works with clients to
improve their business by
applying technology
to automate & improve
decisions
Carsten Ziegler
Architect and Chief Product
Owner at SAP
Carsten works with SAP
customers to adopt business
rules and improve their
development approaches

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AGENDA
Decision
Requirements
Models
DecisionsFirst
Modeler
SAP NetWeaver
Decision Service
Management
From
Requirements to
Execution
Next Steps Questions

4. Decision Requirements
Models

5. Existing Techniques Are Incomplete
Use Cases
• Key steps are decisions
• Decisions not modeled
Process Models
• Decisions made by tasks
• Peanut Butter Rules
Requirements Lists
• Decisions are required
• How is not modeled
Business Rules
• Big Bucket of Rules
• Details before overview
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Process And Rules Disconnected
If customer is GoldCustomer
and Home_Equity_Loan_Value is more than $100,000
then college_loan_discount = 0.5%
If member has greater than 3 prescriptions
and prescription’s renewal_date is less than 30 days in the future
then set reminder=“email”
If patient’s age is less than 18
and member’s coverage is “standard”
and member’s number_of_claims does not exceed 4
then set patient’s coverage to “standard”
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7. Good Decision Requirements
Information
• What is needed?
• Where does it come
from?
Knowledge
• How to make it
• How to improve it
Precision
• Exactly how?
• Specificity without
technical details
Context
• Application
• Organization
• Business Goals
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A Decision Requirements Model
Information
Knowledge
Precision

9. DecisionsFirst Modeler

10. DecisionsFirst Modeler
Social, collaborative, cloud-based Decision Management
modeling software that puts decisions at the heart of your
business architecture, building better requirements and
driving successful business rules implementations
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DecisionsFirst Modeler
Agile Decision Requirements
• Build diagrams quickly, finding and reusing objects or
importing existing information
Connect Decisions and Business Systems
• Put decisions into context, linking them to process, systems
and organizations.
Collaborate across silos
• Accessible from anywhere, a social powered and
collaborative environment supports multiple perspectives
Integrate with your approach
• Define your own completeness levels and link to your BRMS

12. SAP NetWeaver Decision
Service Management

13. SAP NW Decision Service Management
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14. Decision Services implementation
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15. SAP NW DSM: Landscape
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16. SAP NW DSM: Modeling
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17. SAP NW DSM: Deployment
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18. SAP NW DSM: Use
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19. SAP NW DSM: Continuous Improvement
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20. From Requirements to
Execution

21. DecisionsFirst Modeler + SAP NW DSM
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Decision logic is implemented
Using DecisionTables or
other elements

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Collaborative Home Page

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Full Text Search

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Decision Requirements Diagrams

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Detailed Properties

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Complete Documentation Generation
Every object in a
diagram or search
Every property of
every object
Well-formed
Microsoft Word
document
Copy and Paste into
your own format

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Direct Link to Implementation

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SAP NW DSM Application

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SAP NW DSM Function

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SAP NW DSM Decision Table

31. Next Steps

32. Recap
DecisionsFirst
Modeler
Agile Decision Requirements
A simple yet precise definition of
decision requirements and an
implementation map
Connect Decisions and
Business Systems
Put decisions in context, linking
to processes and organizations
Collaborate across silos
Collaborative, social, cloud-
based tool for business and IT
Integrate with your approach
Define your own completeness
levels and link to your BRMS
SAP NetWeaver Decision
Service Management
Increase the speed, quality of
operational decisions
Automate complex decision
with decision services
Become more agile
Adapt decision-making logic
super fast
Decrease IT cost
Empower business experts to
control decision-making logic
without IT involvement or
system downtime

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We Can Help – Starter Services
Jump Start Service
SAP Consulting Partner
Specifying and developing an initial executable decision
requirements model that you can extend and manage
Technology transfer using DecisionsFirst Modeler and
SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management
Model Building Service
Give us your Blueprint or existing business rules
We build an initial decision requirements model
We make go-forward recommendations

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More Information
DecisionsFirst Modeler
www.decisionsfirst.com
SAP NetWeaver Decision
Service Management
www.sap.com/decision-
service-management

35. Questions?

36. Thank You
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JamesTaylor
james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com
Carsten Ziegler
c.ziegler@sap.com