Decision service manager

• US 9,729,397 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2015
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Ziegler, Carsten
• Primary Examiner(s): Holmes, Michael B
• Application Number:
  US14/976,784
• Publication Number:
  US 20160112266A1
• Time in Patent Office: 596 Days
• Field of Search: 706 45
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0816 the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for modeling and deploying decision services. One computer-implemented method includes creating a connection between a decision service manager and a managed system, establishing a signature of a decision service, developing, using at least one computer, the decision service based upon the established signature of the decision service, performing a deployment readiness check, transferring generated code implementing the decision service to the managed system upon a determination that the deployment readiness check was successful, inserting the generated code into the managed system, and retrieving a deployment status from the managed system.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

creating a connection between a decision service manager and a managed system;

establishing a signature of a decision service;

developing, using at least one computer, the decision service based upon the established signature of the decision service;

performing a deployment readiness check;

transferring generated code implementing the decision service to the managed system upon a determination that the deployment readiness check was successful; and

inserting the generated code into the managed system, wherein the inserting takes place while another decision service is in use.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising installing a business rule service package on the managed system.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the deployment readiness check is based upon criteria associated with the managed system and the developed decision service, the criteria including at least one of:

that the definition and implementation of the decision service is free of any error messages, that defined limitations are not used within the decision service, the availability of the managed system, or that the managed system responds with an acknowledgement prior to performing the deployment.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising locking objects associated with the decision service and locking the managed system.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the inserted generated code has an as-of date indicating when the inserted generated code is permitted to execute on the managed system.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising releasing the locks from objects associated with the decision service and the managed system.

7. A computer-program product, the computer program product comprising computer-readable instructions embodied on tangible, non-transitory media, the instructions operable when executed to perform operations to:

create a connection between a decision service manager and a managed system;

establish a signature of a decision service;

develop, using at least one computer, the decision service based upon the established signature of the decision service;

perform a deployment readiness check;

transfer generated code implementing the decision service to the managed system upon a determination that the deployment readiness check was successful; and

insert the generated code into the managed system, wherein the inserting takes place while another decision service is in use.

8. The computer-program product of claim 7, further comprising operations operable to install a business rule service package on the managed system.

9. The computer-program product of claim 7, wherein the deployment readiness check is based upon criteria associated with the managed system and the developed decision service, the criteria including at least one of:

that the definition and implementation of the decision service is free of any error messages, that defined limitations are not used within the decision service, the availability of the managed system, or that the managed system responds with an acknowledgement prior to performing the deployment.

10. The computer-program product of claim 7, further comprising operations operable to lock objects associated with the decision service and locking the managed system.

11. The computer-program product of claim 7, wherein the inserted generated code has an as-of date indicating when the inserted generated code is permitted to execute on the managed system.

12. The computer-program product of claim 10, further comprising operations operable to release the locks from objects associated with the decision service and the managed system.

13. A system, comprising:

memory operable to store at least one decision service; and

at least one hardware processor interoperably coupled to the memory and operable to;

create a connection between a decision service manager and a managed system;

establish a signature of a decision service;

develop, using at least one computer, the decision service based upon the established signature of the decision service;

perform a deployment readiness check;

transfer generated code implementing the decision service to the managed system upon a determination that the deployment readiness check was successful; and

insert the generated code into the managed system, wherein the inserting takes place while another decision service is in use.

14. The system of claim 13, further operable to install a business rule service package on the managed system.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the deployment readiness check is based upon criteria associated with the managed system and the developed decision service, the criteria including at least one of:

that the definition and implementation of the decision service is free of any error messages, that defined limitations are not used within the decision service, the availability of the managed system, or that the managed system responds with an acknowledgement prior to performing the deployment.

16. The system of claim 13, further operable to lock objects associated with the decision service and locking the managed system.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the inserted generated code has an as-of date indicating when the inserted generated code is permitted to execute on the managed system.

18. The system of claim 16, further operable to release the locks from objects associated with the decision service and the managed system.