What’s New in SAS Business Rules Manager 2.2

Overview

SAS Business Rules Manager 2.2 runs on the second maintenance release of SAS 9.4. Major features for this release include the ability to manage versions and support for SAS Workflow. New features and enhancements in this release enable you to perform the following tasks:
  • send rule flows through approval workflows and track workflow tasks
  • manage versions of rule sets and rule flows
  • deploy rule flows as stored processes
  • run a wizard to generate and import vocabularies, rule sets, and rule flows from a data table by using the Decision Tree, Scorecard, Market Basket Analysis, or Recency Frequency Monetary discovery technique
  • execute rule flows inside the databases by using the SAS In-Database Code Accelerator for Teradata or the SAS In-Database Code Accelerator for Greenplum
  • selectively include rule sets in a rule flow
  • save rule flow tests and display the results of previous tests
  • display the rules that were fired for specific output records
  • import vocabularies from an input data table, including domain values
  • display the terms and lookup tables that are used in a rule set
  • see where rule sets are used in rule flows
  • search for rule sets by term
  • create libraries and register tables in the SAS Metadata Repository

Manage Workflows and Track Workflow Tasks

You can send rule flows through approval workflows from within SAS Business Rules Manager. You can claim tasks that are defined for the workflows and perform the actions associated with the tasks. Tasks that you have claimed are displayed in the My Tasks category. For more information, see Overview of Using Workflows.

Manage Versions of Rule Sets and Rule Flows

On the Versions pages, you can display detailed information about a version. For rule sets, you can lock versions and add new versions. For rule flows, a new version is created each time you publish a rule flow. See Managing Rule Set Versions and Managing Versions of a Rule Flow for more information.

Deploy Rule Flows as Stored Processes

When you save a rule flow as a stored process, the rule flow is made available as a stored process on the SAS Stored Process Server. Other applications can then execute the rule flow and receive and process the results. See Deploy a Rule Flow as a Stored Process for more information.

New Rule Discovery Wizard

SAS Business Rules Manager now provides a New Discovery wizard that enables you to use analytical techniques to generate and import rule flows from a data table. You can use the Decision Tree, Scorecard, Market Basket, or Recency Frequency Monetary (RFM) technique to generate and import business rule data into the rules database. This wizard generates a vocabulary, as many rule sets as are needed, anda rule flow. See Create a Rule Flow by Using Discovery Techniques for more information.

Execute Rule Flows inside the Databases

SAS Business Rules Manager 2.2 executes rule flows inside the databases by using the SAS In-Database Code Accelerator for Teradata or the SAS In-Database Code Accelerator for Greenplum when possible. Some complex rule flows cannot be executed inside the database.

Support for Additional Operators

SAS Business Rules Manager now supports the LIKE operator in condition expressions. It also supports leading + (plus) and – (minus) operators in action expressions.
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