New SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management to Empower Business Experts to Control Decision Logic Across Enterprise Applications

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New SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management to Empower Business Experts to Control Decision Logic Across Enterprise Applications

SAP NEWSBYTE - August 21, 2012 | SAP - Database Technology

Helping organizations to quickly react to changing business and regulatory requirements and adapt processes in enterprise applications, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management. The software aims to allow organizations to move decision logic that determines the process behavior in enterprise applications into a central location. From there, SAP intends to enable business owners and IT experts to easily and instantaneously set up and change decision logic. The approach is planned to provide a cost-effective and simplified alternative to extensive application customizing, custom coding and application embedded business rules.

In the past, changes to decision logic in enterprise applications were done exclusively by IT experts. SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management is intended to empower domain experts to define and change decision logic without any IT staff involvement. This aims to not only speed up changes in automated business processes, but also to improve the efficiency of IT and business staff within the organization. Additionally, SAP plans to enable users to continuously optimize the decision services and make them available without requiring costly downtime of the connected enterprise applications. To avoid time-consuming, error-prone duplication, it is planned that decision services being used by multiple connected enterprise applications will only need to be created once.

"The ability to react and adapt to new business requirements is more important now than ever," said Sethu M, deputy chief technology officer, SAP AG. "SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management intends to give organizations the ability to continuously and quickly optimize their business processes by empowering business experts to implement and change automated operational decisions in enterprise applications."

To help organizations identify high-ROI opportunities, SAP has partnered with professional services firms such as Decision Management Solutions.

"Taking control of operational decisions is increasingly a source of competitive advantage," said James Taylor, CEO, Decision Management Solutions. By combining decision management technologies like SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management and a decision-centric approach, we provide tremendous value to organizations by allowing them to take their existing systems to the next level and build the agile and adaptive systems they need to succeed."

SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management is currently available via the SAP Ramp-Up program.

For more information on the consulting service offered by Decision Management Solutions, visitwww.decisionmanagementsolutions.com/sap. To learn more about the SAP Ramp-Up program for SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management, visit SAP Community Network.

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HP Helps Hospitals Improve Patient Flow

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HP Helps Hospitals Improve Patient Flow with Central Logic

Central Logic software integrated with HP touchscreen technology can save hospitals time and money

Topics: Touchscreen Technology

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- HP today announced it is working with Central Logic, a leading healthcare software provider, to help hospitals improve patient care, increase hospital efficiency and reduce costs.

HP is integrating Central Logic Core™, an intuitive, web-based bed management system, into its HP Z600 Workstations. Hospital staff can replace their whiteboards with this HP touchscreen technology solution to more easily manage patient case processing and bed capacity optimization.

Hospitals of all sizes can choose from any number of display options including the HP TouchSmart 9300, HP 47-inch touch capable digital signage displays and the highly mobile HP Slate 2.

Central Logic’s software will be sold exclusively on HP hardware through HP Healthcare Specialist Partners and distributors such as Ingram-Micro.

“The combination of Central Logic Core software and HP technology answers hospital community demands to deliver reliable solutions that leverage touch technology,” said Chris Mertens, vice president, Healthcare Practice, Personal Systems Group, HP. “Touchscreen solutions can save hospitals valuable time and money and result in maximum patient flow optimization.”

“We see this solution as a way of automating bed management processes and replacing the whiteboards you typically see throughout hospitals with functional, dynamic, digital displays that all nurses and doctors can easily use,” said Darin Vercillo, chief executive officer, Central Logic. “Central Logic’s patient flow solutions operated with HP’s touch technology provides tremendous value and will greatly increase hospital productivity.” 

Central Logic offers a full suite of patient flow software solutions utilizing HP TouchSmart PCs and digital signage displays to help manage patients throughout their hospital stay. Central Logic’s ForeFront™ software is the industry’s leading patient transfer and admission solution, Central Logic Edge™ software assists with patient transport and dispatching, Central Logic Connect™ aids the discharging process, and Central Logic Insight™ centralizes physician scheduling and availability.

More information on HP Healthcare solutions is available at: www.hp.com/go/hphealthcare

About Central Logic, Inc.

Central Logic is the healthcare industry’s leading provider of innovative patient flow software and consultative expertise. Since 2005, the company’s solutions have transformed patient transfer processes for some of the United States’ most respected medical systems and hospitals. Central Logic works collaboratively with physicians, administrators and staff to design and deliver patient flow solutions that increase patient throughput while conserving internal resources. For more information, please visit http://www.centrallogic.com/.