Business Rules - Sam Solakyan
Agenda The value of business process management Business rules and BPM Business intelligence and BPM BPM + BR + BI = greater than the sum of the parts
Enterprise Business Processes Chain of activities producing a business result Usually spans functional silos Requirement to “manage the white space” between functional groups
BPM Defined A management discipline for improving cross-functional business processes.  The methods and technology tools used to manage and optimize business processes. 
Process Lifecycle
Model
Optimize
Automate Monitor
BPM Goals
Efficiency
Compliance
Achieving and proving standardization
Agility
Automating steps and handoffs Integrating systems and data sources
Changing processes quickly and easily
Visibility
See what’s happening in a process
Business Rules and BPM
Key to agility in business processes Routing decisions Work assignment Set parameters
Changing rules without changing the process Applying rules consistently in processes and other applications
BPM-BR alternatives: BR built into BPM
Typically not full-featured BR:
Simple Boolean rules for routing decisions Rules defined and bound to a specific process step, hence may be replicated
Rule changes may require redeploying processes with IT involvement Rule changes may not affect in-flight processes Lower cost, built-in functionality
BPM-BR alternatives: BPM calls external BR
Full BR functionality:
Complex rules, such as scoring Global process control from one rule
Rules shared with enterprise applications Changes to rule parameters can be made by business Rule changes affect in-flight processes Additional cost and implementation complexity
Business Intelligence and BPM
Key to visibility in business processes
Process monitoring and reporting Process analysis and optimization Predictive analytics
May contribute to process agility
Trigger processes Automate steps based on prior decisions Suggest decision for human task
BPM-BI alternatives: BI built into BPM
Typically limited functionality: Real-time dashboards Reporting of performance metrics Limited to process statistics rather than business statistics
May be lower cost, although usually still requires a separate data store
BPM-BI alternatives: Export BPM statistics to BI
Full BI functionality: Dashboards Reporting Predictive analytics
Shared enterprise BI platform
Integrate with data from other systems
Additional cost and implementation complexity
BPM + BR + BI
Self-learning decisions within processes: Process statistics captured with BI Statistics analyzed and fed back to inform business rules Business rules modify process behavior
BR + BI = decision management
Summary BPM + BR turns policies into action BPM + BI provides insight into processes BPM + BR + BI integrates insights with policies for self-optimizing processes
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