POLICY ENGINE
OWMS validates any decision against your business logic in under 100ms, without touching your existing stack. One endpoint. Every policy enforced.
Policy check response time
<100ms
Native data source types
4
Decision audit coverage
100%
Stack changes required
Zero
THE PROBLEM
Policy logic lives in spreadsheets, code, and tribal knowledge. When rules conflict or someone acts outside them, no one knows until the damage is done.
Policy changes require a developer
A credit limit changes. A discount threshold is updated. Now you need a Jira ticket, a developer, a release cycle, and a hope that nothing else breaks. Business logic that changes quarterly cannot live inside code that deploys quarterly.
Finance, sales, and operations each follow a different version
The margin policy Finance wrote in Q2 is not the one Sales is applying on the ground. The credit limit Operations uses is not the one in the ERP. When policies live in spreadsheets and email threads, there is no single version that anyone actually enforces.
When an audit happens, no one can reconstruct the decision
A regulator asks why a distributor was extended credit beyond their limit. The honest answer is a trail of calls, approvals on WhatsApp, and a spreadsheet no one is sure is current. OWMS logs every decision — who asked, what policy applied, and what the outcome was — at the moment it happened.
WHAT OWMS DOES
OWMS Studio lets business teams author rules. OWMS Server enforces them via REST API at the exact moment of every decision.
OWMS Studio — Rules authored by the business, not engineering
Finance managers, compliance leads, and operations teams define approval logic, thresholds, and exception handling through a visual editor. No SQL. No code. Rules are version-controlled — every change is timestamped, attributed, and reversible.
OWMS Server — One endpoint, every policy
A single REST API endpoint: POST /check_policy. Your application sends decision context, OWMS returns approved, denied, or escalate in under 100ms. Deploy on-premise, Azure, AWS, or GCP. Works with any language or framework. Integration takes one afternoon.
Multi-Source Data — Rules that reference your live data
Policy logic can pull reference data from CSV, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, or MySQL. Credit limits from your ERP. Discount tiers from your pricing table. Approval hierarchies from your HR system. Rules stay current because they read from the same sources your business already trusts.
Policy Packs — Portable, auditable, deployable anywhere
Every policy compiles into five JSON files: schema, rules, conditions, exceptions, metadata. Portable across environments. Version-stamped. Readable by compliance teams without engineering involvement. One Policy Pack can be deployed across multiple systems simultaneously.
Real-Time Enforcement — At the moment of the decision, not after it
Every pricing decision, every credit extension, every discount approval is checked against live policy at the exact moment it is made. No batch reconciliation. No end-of-day correction. The policy is enforced before the transaction is confirmed, not after an exception report is reviewed.
Full Audit Trail — The evidence compliance teams have always needed
Every /check_policy call is logged with timestamp, input context, policy pack version, rule applied, and outcome. Compliance teams pull audit reports directly — no engineering involvement, no data reconstruction. When a regulator asks why a transaction was approved, the answer is already in the log.
HOW IT WORKS
Business teams own the rules. Engineering integrates once. Every decision is enforced automatically thereafter.
1
STEP 1
Author in Studio
Your finance, compliance, or operations team defines approval logic, thresholds, and exception handling in the OWMS Studio visual editor. No developer required. Rules go live when the business is ready — not when the next release is scheduled.
2
STEP 2
Package as a Policy Pack
Rules compile into a Policy Pack — five JSON files, version-stamped and auditable. Deploy the same pack across multiple environments. Roll back to any previous version in seconds if a rule needs to be reversed.
3
STEP 3
Call /check_policy
Your application sends decision context to the OWMS Server via a single REST API endpoint. One integration. Works with any language, any framework, any existing stack. Engineering integrates once. The business manages rules from that point forward.
4
STEP 4
Get the verdict
OWMS returns approved, denied, or escalate — with the exact rule applied, the input context evaluated, and a full audit record — in under 100ms. The decision is made. The evidence is logged. No follow-up required.
INTEGRATION
Integrate in an afternoon. No new infrastructure, no proprietary data layer, no vendor lock-in. OWMS Server deploys wherever your application runs and enforces policy across every system that calls the API.
Works with any language or framework
Deploy on-premise, Azure, AWS, or GCP
Multi-tenant policy packs per business unit or geography
JSON response with decision reason codes and rule reference
SAP-compatible context schema included
REST API
Python
Node.js
Java
SAP-compatible
Multi-tenant
POST /check_policy
REQUEST
{
“decision”: “discount”,
“amount”: 4200,
“customer_tier”: “gold”
}
RESPONSE
{
“result”: “approved”,
“rule”: “discount.gold.max”,
“elapsed_ms”: 38
}
APPROVED
Resolved in 38ms
