BRF+@S/4?

[guenter_schepers]

Hi all,

in our Company the question Comes up if BRF+ will be part of S/4 - the next Generation of SAP Business Software. Has anyone informations about this question or give me a hint where i can get them?

Kind regards

Günter

[christianlechne · Accepted solution]

Hi Günter,

BRFplus is part of S/4HANA and according to the principle of one it is set as the business rules engine when it comes to S/4 applications.

There are also some things that are enhanced in BRFplus due to S/4, I think knows more about what might come

BR

Christian

[JarleiN]

There is a good example with TDF (Tax Declaration Framework)  - will run just in Hana and the recomendation way to integrate with the internal modules is using BRF+.

[carsten_ziegler]

BRFplus is the default BRMS in S4H. There will be some more features (e.g. we work on Fiori UI controls and HANA integration). More to come soon.

[Ashutosht09]

Carsten, based on your response should we still expect for HRF or BRF+ in S/4 is called HRF?

[carsten_ziegler]

Not sure I got the question. But BRFplus will be there in S4H and currently we work on the integration of HRF capabiuliities into BRFplus. HRF may though also be used standalone without an S4H context. Naming may change as our marketing departments follow the fads.

[Former Member]

Hi Carsten,

There is still a long way to go till we can make use of it,

but I have one more question regarding the (interesting) DSM - HRF Integration:

Will that be an explicit integration (i.e. new dedicated HRF expression types) or implicit one (e.g. internal conversion of DB lookup / decision tables expressions to HRF)?

Regards,

Shai

[carsten_ziegler]

Hello Shai,

You are asking the right questions! We have been struggling with the integration approach for quite a while. The first 2 attempts were not considered sucessfull or powerful yet convenient enough. So we changed the architecture several time. Now, we follow a concept that would let us define an expression such as a decision table once (in one UI) and use it in operational (BRFplus, ABAP) and analytical (HRF, SQL) scenarios as well as probably in combinations of both where one decision service produces the combination of ABAP and SQL code for execution. It is still too early to explain it generally in a blog and there is still some risk that we hit road blocks. But I am confident we can demo and explain it soon.

Regards,
Carsten

[Ashutosht09]

Thanks Carsten. Perhaps I need to understand more about HRF. I was under an assumption that HRF will be the Rules framework used on HANA platform and will replace BRF+, but sounds like that is not the case.

[carsten_ziegler]

DSM/BRFplus and HRF are strategic components for SAP. We will not force our customers into any migration or so but instead add many options for them by merging the two.

Soon we will start explaining this with more details.