Decision Service Manager Automated Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current decision service updating processes are complex, costly, and inflexible due to the need for specialized technical personnel and data replication across multiple systems, leading to downtime and reduced agility in adapting to business changes.
Innovation Solution
A centralized decision service manager facilitates the deployment of decision services directly from productive systems, using a small plug-in module on target managed systems, eliminating the need for full-fledged BRMS artifacts and enabling automated deployment readiness checks and secure, efficient updates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a three-system landscape with CTS is used for decision service updating, then decision services can be updated, but complexity and cost increase due to specialized technical personnel requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the decision service update capability from the complex three-system landscape and CTS infrastructure. By implementing direct deployment from productive systems using a small plug-in module, the solution removes the need for specialized technical personnel and full-fledged BRMS artifacts, thereby reducing system complexity while maintaining update functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses a simplified copy mechanism where decision services are deployed directly from productive systems to target managed systems via a small plug-in module. This replaces the complex CTS migration process, allowing business experts to perform updates without specialized technical personnel while reducing overall system complexity.
2Ease of manufacture
If CTS is used to migrate decision service changes, then updates can be performed, but downtime occurs during migration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables continuous operation during updates by deploying decision services directly from productive systems without requiring system downtime. The plug-in module facilitates seamless migration of decision service changes, allowing the system to remain operational throughout the update process and eliminating the downtime associated with traditional CTS migration.
3Ease of manufacture
If CTS migration events with fixed timeframes are used, then decision service updates can be managed, but agility to adapt to changing conditions is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces fixed timeframes with a dynamic deployment mechanism that allows decision services to be updated at any time from productive systems. The plug-in module enables flexible, on-demand deployment without rigid scheduling constraints, significantly improving the organization's agility to adapt to changing business conditions while maintaining controlled update management.
4Reliability
If full-fledged BRMS artifacts are deployed to target managed systems, then decision services can be executed, but maintenance time and effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential functionality needed for decision service execution, replacing full-fledged BRMS artifacts with a small plug-in module. This minimalistic approach maintains the ability to execute decision services reliably while dramatically reducing maintenance time and effort by eliminating unnecessary BRMS components from target managed systems.
5Ease of manufacture
If data replication is performed across multiple systems, then decision services can be updated, but cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the decision service update capability from the data replication-heavy three-system landscape. By implementing direct deployment from productive systems, the solution eliminates the need for extensive data replication across multiple systems, thereby reducing costs and complexity while maintaining update functionality.
Data Source
AI summary
A decision service manager authenticating at a managed system hosting a decision service, in case of a successful authentication, the decision service manager sending a first status request to the managed system and receiving, in response to the first status request, a first indication of a current status of the managed system and authenticating at a target managed system, in case of a successful authentication at the target managed system, the decision service manager sending a second status request to the target managed system and receiving a second indication of a current status of the target managed system, the decision service manager performing a deployment readiness check comprising comparing the first and the second indication, and if a current status of the target managed system allows the target managed system to host the decision service, automatically deploying the decision service to the target managed system.