Business Decision Requirements and Rule Evaluation

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Composed business decision processarchimate
Request and fact acquisitionarchimate
Verify and evaluate business factsarchimate
Approved decision brancharchimate
Denied decision brancharchimate
Deferred decision and exception reviewarchimate
Reevaluate new or challenged evidencearchimate
Notification and audit recordarchimate
Evidence verification and decisionarchimate
Decision scope and claimsarchimate
Eligibility and precedence evaluationarchimate
Policy constraints and decision servicearchimate
Decision policy ownerarchimate
Exception reviewing authorityarchimate
Authorized decision issuancearchimate
Decision service realizationarchimate
Logical application supportarchimate
Decision quality and accepted outcomearchimate

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Define trusted decision inputs, rule predicates, precedence, authority, positive and negative outcomes, and auditable review.

Purpose: specify an independently accountable business decision as an operational service with attributable facts, explicit eligibility rules, conflict precedence and bounded outcomes. It is not an opaque branch within a software workflow. Operating model: decision inputs are attributed and checked for authenticity and freshness; approved rules then yield approved, denied or deferred results. Deferred cases request further evidence through an independent reviewer; they are not interpreted as approval. Communicated decisions retain scope, authority, effective dates and replayable rationale. Reference limits: Arq models these as conceptual business activities and events, not a runnable DMN rules engine. Implementations must define decision tables, temporal obligations, schema contracts and negative conformance scenarios; this does not certify the correctness of an organization's decisions.

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Business Actor
Business decision requester
Role
Decision-making authority, Independent exception reviewer
Business Event
Decision requested, Approved decision outcome, Denied decision outcome, Deferred decision outcome
Process
Business decision service lifecycle
Activity
Collect decision facts, Validate facts and provenance, Apply effective decision rules, Resolve contested or missing evidence, Communicate scoped decision, Persist and reconcile decision
Business Object
Decision request, Verified decision evidence, Versioned decision record
Rule
Eligibility predicates, Authority and resource thresholds, Conflict and precedence rules
Policy
Business decision governance policy
Constraint
No implicit approval constraint
Capability
Governed business decision execution
Business Service
Decision determination service
Application
Decision support application
Measure
Decision quality and latency
Outcome
Authorized and justified decision