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Enhancing Business Process Management with Business RulesBlaze Advisor Webinar Series

September 23rd, 2009

Carole Ann MatignonVP, Product ManagementTwitter.com/CMatignon

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Ability to Anticipate situations like thisAbility to Anticipate situations like this

As well as ability to React swiftlyAs well as ability to React swiftly

Competitive Survival depends onCompetitive Survival depends on


Pattern-Based Strategy4 Key Elements

TransparencyThe demonstration of corporate health and strategic use of transparency for

differentiation

Operational tempo advantageA focus on disciplines, activities,

technologies and resources that gives organizational leaders the mechanisms and controls they need to understand

how to enable consistent and repeatable organizational change in response to

changing patterns

Performance-driven cultureA focus on disciplines, activities,

technologies and resources that enables an organization to monitor leading indicators of change, and to use

performance to enable change through the alignment of organizational

resources to strategic performance metrics

Pattern seekingA focus on disciplines, activities,

technologies and resources that expose signals that may lead to a pattern that

will have a positive or negative impact on strategy or operations

Reference: Gartner, Introducing Pattern-Based Strategy, ID Number: G00168553, August 2009

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Survival of the Fittest Pattern-Based Strategies & BPM


How does BPM relate to Pattern-based Strategy?

» Process Agility» Optempo Advantage» Transparency

» Business Activity Monitoring» Pattern Seeking» Performance-Driven Culture


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“Too Much Information Kills the Information”

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Pace of Change

» Processes evolve faster than code

» Business Rules changes even more frequently» Up to millions of business rules» Several daily changes in many

cases

» How do we synchronize those updates into Production?» Some may imply organizational

change» Some may imply changes in paper

forms distributed to brokers and resellers

» Some may be imposed by regulation


Survival of the Fittest The Missing Ingredient


Liberate your Business Rules from your Processes

» Define roles clearly» BRMS is responsible for capturing

and maintaining the business rules that make DECISIONS

» BPM is used to turn those decisions into ACTIONS by stringing those decisions together and routing the documents to the appropriate actor – a Rating system, a Fulfillment Service, a Storage area

» The Service-Oriented nature of those technologies make it a simple IT task» Business Rules deploy as a Service» Processes invoke Services natively

An IT Match Made in Heaven


A Simple Analogy

» BRMS is the Brain» It does not DO anything» It sits there and, when exposed with

relevant data, can make a decision

» BPM is the Nervous System» It carries information (Documents)

from the organs (Departments) to the Brain

» It transmit decisions taken in the Brain to the involved organs for a coordinated response

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What is Decision? What is Process?

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Achieving the Perfect Balance for maximum Agility and Governance

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Survival of the Fittest Pattern-based Strategy & BRMS


Pattern-Based Strategy4 Key Elements

TransparencyThe demonstration of corporate health and strategic use of transparency for

differentiation

Operational tempo advantageA focus on disciplines, activities,

technologies and resources that gives organizational leaders the mechanisms and controls they need to understand

how to enable consistent and repeatable organizational change in response to

changing patterns

Performance-driven cultureA focus on disciplines, activities,

technologies and resources that enables an organization to monitor leading indicators of change, and to use

performance to enable change through the alignment of organizational

resources to strategic performance metrics

Pattern seekingA focus on disciplines, activities,

technologies and resources that expose signals that may lead to a pattern that

will have a positive or negative impact on strategy or operations

Reference: Gartner, Introducing Pattern-Based Strategy, ID Number: G00168553, August 2009


Optempo Advantage: Empower Business UsersLet them Speak “Business”

Decision Trees

Decision Tables

Scorecards

Templates


Optempo Advantage: Empower Business UsersTrack and Control Change

» Effective dates and “as of” execution capability

» Versioning» At rule level» At ruleset or project level

» Version History display» Change log» Comparison

» Rule promotion

» Queries

» Diff Queries with Visual Compare

» User-defined Management Properties

» Available» IDE» Rules Maintenance Application


Transparency: Manage End-to-End Business Rules LifecycleAccording to Governance Imperatives

» Rule verification» Rules are complete, coherent» Based on static analysis

» Rule validation» Rules behave as expected » Based on test data

» Lifecycle management» Rules are promoted to test then production» Based on predefined processes, manual

approval…


Pattern Seeking: Increase Strategy Performance

» Predict behavior likelihood» Combine domain expertise with

empirical knowledge» Pinpoint “at risk” population

» Likely to fraud» Likely to defect» Likely to churn» Likely to accept an upsell offer» Likely to repay

» Leverage those scores in cut-off business rules


Pattern Seeking: Increase Strategy Performance

» Optimize» Too many alternative options to

consider» Objective solution ranking—“best”» Some examples

» Product configuration» Scheduling» Planning

» More unusual examples» NFL scheduling

» Combine business rules and optimization routines» Eligibility then allocation


Performance-driven Culture: Decision Improvement

Test

Simulation

ImpactAnalysis

PredictiveModels

StrategyOptimization

Decision OptimizerAbility to predict the impact of decisions on bottom-lineAbility to inject additionalexternal conditions that may influence customer

behaviorRun optimization routines

to improve decision strategies based on

constraints and objectives

Decision SimulatorAbility to run what-ifscenarios based on data warehouse or

production dataInspect risks and

opportunities using reporting tools

Blaze AdvisorAbility to verify

that the rules behaveas expected

Run regression tests

SmoothTransition

Decision LevelOperational Tactical Strategic

Precision


Performance-driven Culture: Increase Confidence in Strategy Performance

» Prove with live evaluation» Champion / Challenger

strategy orchestration» Test-drive strategies

in production

» Decision Performance Management» Monitoring / alerting» Dynamic adaptation

Champion

Challenger

80%

20%


Collections

Governance

PrecisionKeep Your Job

Confidence

Agility

Debt

Cool New Technology

Hostile Take-Over

Cost

Headcount

Uncertainty

Transparency

Fraud

Compliance

Regulations

Stimulus Package

Speed

Improvement


Pattern-based StrategyBRMS Value-added Benefits

1.Empower business users Optempo AdvantageBecause of new regulations, competitive threats, different economic conditions, businesses must react fastTraditional IT implementation adds delays in time-to-market

2.Manage end-to-end business rules lifecycle TransparencyTime-to-production is heavily dependent on lifecycle processesCost of “bad decisions” is a luxury that businesses cannot afford

3.Increase strategy performance Pattern SeekingPrecisely predicting customer behavior can prevent operational costs down the road and improve customer satisfactionComparing all possible strategy alternatives is not always practical

4.Increase confidence in strategy performance Performance-drivenDeploying a new strategy introduces risk Deciding which strategy to deploy is often based on gut feel


Upcoming Webinars & Events

Business Rule Lifecycle Managementwith Blaze Advisor

October 7And many others – approx. every 2 weeks

Register at: www.fico.com/events

Gartner Business Process Management Summit 2009

October 5-7, 2009Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress – Orlando, FL

Gartner Symposium ITExpo 2009October 18-22, 2009

Walt Disney World Dolphin, Orlando, FL

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