Enterprise ScaleDecision Management

Can you quickly and effectively respond to changing business requirements?

SAPIENS DECISION

Evolving regulatory requirements, competitive pressure, new product development and changing customer behavior are compelling organizations to fundamentally change how they operate and govern their business. The exponential growth in the volume and scope of business-driven operational decisions has exposed a fundamental weakness in conventional process: the business domain is unable to articulate business requirements in a clear and complete manner. Today’s common approaches fail to separate the business logic that underlies each decision from related operational process and data.

The accuracy and traceability of requirements across an organization’s numerous functions, departments and regions have become more difficult to ensure, and the cost of imprecision continues to escalate. With conventional methodologies proving to be time-consuming, highrisk and expensive, firms are recognizing the need to respond strategically for continued growth and success.

Business logic refers to the drivers that underlie the operational decisions in business. Business logic incorporates business rules, but is not limited to them. Decision management principles allow the development of business logic (requirements) in a format that is clear and intuitive.

What is business logic?

Introducing Business-Driven Decision ManagementSapiens DECISION facilitates a paradigm shift in the way organizations are approaching change, by replacing conventional policy and process management with an emerging discipline called decision management. Decision management bridges the gap between business and IT by enabling business users to rapidly frame requirements in formal business models that can be easily understood by all stakeholders. This ensures that the business logic is complete, internally consistent and accurate, and doesn’t replicate existing logic.

While decision models can be easily developed by business users, they are alsorigorous enough for IT to use, as the technology seamlessly translates the modelsinto code that can be implemented across the organization. Rather than replace existing business rules or process systems, Sapiens DECISION enhances them. The solution can automatically output code and test cases from models into existing business rules systems (regardless of technology), eliminating the need for manual rule coding and test case development; while also dramatically reducing the cost, complexity and time required for such standard implementation processes.

Sapiens DECISION is a business decision management solution that consistently enforces business logic across all enterprise applications.

Organizations use it to track, verify and ensure that every decision is based on the most up-to-date rules and policies. The solution is powered by The Decision Model, a proven and widely adopted decision management methodology.

Redefining Today’s Standard ApproachOperationalization of business policies

typically begins with the communication of

a requirement to IT. They are challenged to

consistently and accurately translate each

requirement into code across all relevant

business systems. IT and Operations’

conventional processes and systems,

centered on traditional rules management

approaches, cannot meet this challenge

in a timely, accurate and cost-effective

manner.

Sapiens DECISION suite simplifies the

process of planning, implementing and

optimizing business policy changes by

automating the innumerable decisions

made by an organization on a daily

basis and providing visibility into their

dissemination across all areas of the

business. The final results of these

decisions, and their impact on overall

organizational performance, is tracked,

analyzed and fed back into improving the

effectiveness of decision-making.

Delivering Centralization & Complete VisibilitySapiens DECISION lies at the operational

heart of an organization and enables

fast response to changing business

requirements, by allowing firms to develop

logic once and then deploy it across

the organization. It is a highly-scalable,

technology-agnostic solution that helps

organizations establish a centralized

business logic repository, ensuring

consistency and reusability across the

organization. The business logic can be

developed and maintained by business

users who utilize Sapiens DECISION logic

authoring, validation, testing, governance,

deployment and execution capabilities, to

significantly improve decision quality and

operational efficiency. Actively involving

business professionals in the design,

implementation, analysis and optimization

of decisions mitigates the traditional liability

associated with change.

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and automated deployment

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business operations.

Sapiens DECISION is a proven solution with measurable benefits

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Structure business logic in Decision Models.

Define the logical components of each business decision.

Validate business logic for inconsistencies or duplication.

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For more information on how Sapiens DECISION can help you address your business challenges,

please visit www.sapiensdecision.com.

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Assess the impact of any change (competitive, strategy, regulatory, etc.) and allow users to simply

and quickly design new and sustainable models to meet evolving business requirements. With

every implemented change, the business reason, owner and timing are documented.

The Testing Facility generates automated test cases and detects logical inconsistencies in the preemptive

stages of introducing business change requirements. This provides business users with a full trace of each

decision, down to the granular level.

The Visual Decision Modeler provides a structured, graphical view of your regulatory and business changes

as they are realized and enforced throughout the organization. The solution’s administrative tools are

designed to support a streamlined, traceable process that is understood by all.

Reduce risk

Improve efficiency and reduce costs by centralizing the development and dissemination of

institutional business logic. The organization’s business logic is developed once and deployed

rapidly and seamlessly across systems, regions and businesses.

Sapiens DECISION is a technology-agnostic solution that is applied to manage change throughout the

organization’s systems. Its deployment does not require the customary and costly “rip and replace”

approach that is traditionally required.

The Code Generator works in synchronicity with deployment adaptors to ensure seamless

communication with any rules engine or programming environment. The suite’s Software Development

Kit (SDK) provides control and flexibility for the technical team to easily build deployment adaptors for

additional environments.

Limit costs and complexity

Achieve accurate, cross-organizational compliance and governance by putting business users in

full control of institutional business logic and enabling them to trace every policy and rule back to

its motivation and documentation.

Manage, store and trace policies, their requirements and documentation from the same accessible

interface that tracks their implementation. Sapiens DECISION’s Policy Manager provides a drill-down to

specific components of business logic and a traceable link from each decision to its policy.

Centralized and simplified, Sapiens DECISION’s Business Change Request Manager allows the

business user to govern the implementation of every decision across the organization, and to trace it

from the code level to its underlying business motivation and source.

Gain visibility, realize true governance

Provide business and IT users a centralized business logic repository that ensures consistency

and accuracy across functions, departments and regions.

The Glossary Manager ensures that accuracy does not get lost in translation. Business decisions are

streamlined from design and definition, through to execution and optimization.

Establish a “single point of truth”