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dbRules – Business Rules Management for SAP HANA®

Simplify and Govern Business Rules with dbRules

dbRules simplifies business rule management in your enterprise by acting as the central point for establishing, distributing and governing business rules. Our architecture integrates into SAP S/4HANA®, SAP BW/4HANA® and SAP BWonHANA® customer landscapes. We support 3 tier system landscape scenarios with integrated transport management and versioning.
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      dbRules simplifies business rule management in your enterprise by acting as the central point for establishing, distributing and governing business rules.
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      Examples of Business Rules

      Finance & Banking
      • Financial statement
      • Customer classification for loans
      • Product category determination
      • Calculation of risk weights
      • Account determination
      • Cost allocation keys
      • Real-time reporting
      Analytics
      • Business consolidation rules
      • Mapping of Dimension values
      • Anonymizing personal data
      • Information augmentation
      • Validation of input data
      • Source system mapping
      • Transformation logic
      Human Resources
      • Equal opportunity compliance
      • Employee competency mapping
      • Compensation and benefits
      • Performance appraisal
      • Remote work policy
      • Leave and time-off
      • Recruiting process
      • Promotion rules
      Production
      • Conditional event raising and notification
      • Maintenance cycle determination
      • Input material batch choices
      • Quality control check rating
      • Production planning
      • Predictive maintenance
      • Material allocation
      IT Services
      • Device allocation by function/pay grade
      • Choice of public cloud as hyperscaler
      • Cost distribution to business areas
      • Automatic allocation of storage
      • Data retention policies
      • Access control rules
      Trading
      • Trading halts and circuit breaker rules
      • Margin requirements for different assets
      • Risk limits on intraday exposure
      • Order type and execution rule
      • Maximum open position limits
      • Best execution rule
      • Settlement rules

      dbRules – Business Rules Management for SAP S4/HANA® & SAP BW4/HANA®

      dbRules simplifies business rule management in your enterprise by acting as the central point for establishing, distributing and governing business rules. Our architecture integrates into SAP S/4HANA®, SAP BW/4HANA® and SAP BWonHANA® customer landscapes. We support 3 tier system landscape scenarios with integrated transport management and versioning.
      We generate SAP HANA® native and business warehouse artefacts to ensure long-term compatibility. We also offer down-port services for clients with older SAP BWonHANA releases.

      dbRules value proposition

      Save on implementation, maintenance and energy costs. Across your enterprise landscape, our software can significantly reduce the costs and energy consumption associated with deploying new projects. By leveraging our efficient and optimized implementation, you avoid resource-intensive processes. This reduction in implementation time and effort translates directly into cost savings for your organization. Additionally, our solution is designed to operate with minimal computing power needs.
      Bug Fixes / Enhancements
      Standartised approach to business rule implementation eliminates bugs arising in core logic. Future enhancements require less effort as well.
      Requirement Gathering
      Business users formulating and testing rules independently and interatively without IT interaction can result in almost 60% of time/costs savings
      Development
      Developers now act as integrators of generated modules without having to design, implement and unit test core business logic
      CPU Usage
      Reduced CPU Usage leading to cost savings on public cloud environments and energy savings on on-premise
      ETL Efficiency Boost
      By embedding the dbRules generated artifacts into SAP HANA®’s parallel processing engine, we have experienced ETL workloads are reduced from 24-hour ABAP job to a 5-hour process. This cuts a 700W server’s energy use from ~16.8 kWh to ~3.5 kWh, resulting in up to 80% reduction in energy consumption. We are strongly committed to reducing CO2 footprint of such compute jobs in large enterprises!
      01. Rule Definition

      A user-friendly Excel® add-in helps users maintain and govern their business rules. The rules are structured in a WYSIWYG principle in mind. Users can on the very first glance understand what the rule attempts to define. Users can run simulations on the rules as defined by them, allowing them to prototype, build and test iteratively.
      A powerful rule definition language enables setup of complex rules, whilst still keeping the overview on the broad requirement.

      02. Rule Generation
      The dbRules engine and repository embed in to your existing SAP® S4/HANA® or BW4/HANA® application and generate runtime artifacts implementing the business rules. Business rules are translated into into runtime artifacts like database procedures and views ready for integration by a developer. Hierarchy Rules including BW hierarchy types are fully supported and natively executed in HANA database in an efficient manner so that ETL loads are accelerated and data availability increases.
      03. Rule Integration
      The runtime artifact, a native AMDP database procedure, can then be called in ABAP programs, BW transformations, BI-IP planning functions or customer exits. Generated CDS Views and BW4/HANA® Open ODS views can be directly consumed in real-time dashboards as well as in SAP® Analytics Cloud, SAP® Datasphere, SAP® BusinessObjects™ or SAP® Analysis for Office avoiding data replication.
      04. Rule Governance
      The dbRules repository manager deliver role-based access control (RBAC) and change audit trails. These are integral components that can significantly enhance the value of rule management software. RBAC ensures that users have appropriate access permissions based on their roles, improving security and streamlining workflows. On the other hand, the change audit trail offers transparency and accountability by recording all rule changes, facilitating compliance, error resolution, and historical analysis. Together, these features empower organizations to efficiently manage rules, collaborate effectively, adapt to evolving needs, and maintain the integrity of their rule-based processes, ultimately bolstering security, compliance, and operational efficiency.

      dbRules features

      Hierarchy rules support
      • Standard hierarchy support
      • Version dependent hierarchy rules support
      • Time dependent hierarchy rules support
      • Time dependent nodes and leafs hierarchy rules support
      • Intervall nodes and leafs hierarchy rules support
      Rule Language
      • Powerful language functions for complex scenarios
      • Match First and Match All Options
      • Intuitive tabular rule structure
      • User friendly
      Deployment
      • Released rules are written to a transport request and imported into subsequent systems
      • Required post deployment actions in target systems are implemented for corrections or activations
      • Support for maintenance on production systems
      Cost/Efficiency Gains
      • Significant performance gain through push down of rules to HANA database
      • Centralized oversight of all business rules operating in the system
      • Reduced development costs through low-code / no-code approach
      • Low entry barrier for new team members
      • Ease of knowledge Transfer
      • Time and energy savings
      Frontend
      • No developer assistance needed for rule creation and prototyping
      • Low entry barrier to rules creation, maintenance and testing
      • Internationalisation for German and English formats
      • Record of changes into transports on Release
      • No-code for business user
      • Excel® based frontend
      Governance
      • Access to objects can be differentiated across read, write, release and delete
      • Aligned to standard SAP practices for authorisation management
      • Role Based access control to object in repository
      • Full transparency into change audit trail
      • Recovery of prior states of rules
      Repository
      • Master data help is available at their fingertips in case they do not remember the exact code or ranges
      • Rules are maintained and released for use on production system or put on a CTS transport for deployment
      • Deep folder-based structure for organising rules with mutiple team members
      • Detail audit trail of all released versions for review and governance
      • Fast search for objects in the directory for quick navigation
      • Personal user space for testing, learning and prototyping
      Integration
      • dbRules runs on SAP BW/4HANA®, SAP BWonHANA® and SAP S/4HANA®
      • External applications can apply rules onto their data using a REST API
      • dbRules integrates well into your in-House development practices
      • dbRules is designed for use with SAP® Analytics Cloud
      • dbRules is compatible with SAP® BusinessObjects™
      • dbRules works well with SAP® Datasphere