The SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management (SAP NetWeaver BRM) component provides you with support for the various phases of a rules life cycle: design, execution, modification, and optimization of business rules. As such, the component provides you with the agility you need to embed and enforce business rules in business processes and applications.

SAP NetWeaver BRM helps you to manage the growing set of business rules in your organization. Therefore, SAP provides the following tools:

• Rules composer – Enables process architects and IT developers to create and modify business rules via rule representation formats, such as decision tables
• Rules analyzer – Enables business users to test, refine, analyze, and optimize business rules
• Rules manager – Enables business users to edit and manage business rules in a Web-based collaborative environment
• Rules repository – Provides the environment for rules versioning, permissions management, access control, alerts, and additional repository services
• Rules engine – Executes rules, integrated with the run-time technology provided by SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment

SAP NetWeaver BRM can be used in the context of standard applications as well as composed business processes.

The possible integration and modification of business rules in composite business processes is supported via an integration of the SAP NetWeaver BRM component with the SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management component. Both components leverage the same Eclipse-based development platform. This provides a single environment for designing rules and processes on the basis of consistent metadata. The result: reduced scope for error and improved productivity.

SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management is available as an integrated capability of the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment.