Business Rules Management System

SAP BRMS has developed two business rules management platforms, supporting both its Java and ABAP environments. These technologies can be used to ensure that decisions are effectively managed and integrated throughout your SAP enterprise backbone.

SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management (SAP NetWeaver DSM)

Companies applying decision service management can create simpler and more agile processes, and more flexible business applications, by externalizing the decision support algorithms and applying business rules to effectively manage these decisions. Integrating business rules management systems in the most dynamic parts of a business process improves visibility as well as agility, and it helps to align the business department with IT. Making decisions explicit and managing them together with processes ensures the effective separation of concerns and a more streamlined business. Combining business process management and decision service management helps to decrease process complexity, and to increase straight through processing. Read more about SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management.

SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management (SAP NetWeaver BRM)

This is part of the SAP NetWeaver AS Java. SAP NetWeaver BRM enables your organization to externalize business rules and manage them flexibly across multiple installations for greater agility, for consistent and transparent enforcement of policies across the entire enterprise. SAP NetWeaver BRM is part of the package solution SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration combining the power of SAP NetWeaver BPM, SAP NetWeaver BRM and SAP NetWeaver PI into a single, integrated solution

For heterogeneous landscapes, SAP provides two BRMS engines – SAP NetWeaver BRM (on SAP NetWeaver AS Java) and BRFplus (on SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP). This article explains how to determine which of these engines should be chosen as the rule provider, also whether the native configuration of the invoking application should be used instead, or whether particular use cases should be treated as business rules at all.

Business Rule Framework plus (BRF Plus) is part of the SAP NetWeaver ABAP server and integrated in many business applications. BRF Plus is already used in many SAP applications as well as custom projects across all business areas and industries. It combines the powerful ABAP software logistics with the agility and flexibility demanded by business experts. There are three recent papers on BRFplus for Decision Services, BRFplus for HCM Features, and Dunning by Collection Strategy with BRFplus demonstrating how business experts can use BRFplus to enhance business processes.