Managing Decisions in IBM Operational Decision Manager v8.9 - On-Demand Course

The Managing Decisions in IBM Operational Decision Manager v8.9 course is a 5-day course that is designed to provides students a complete platform for managing business rules by helping to automate and govern decisions across processes and applications. The focus of the course is on the iterative nature of working collaboratively with business policy experts and development teams on rule projects. Via instructor-led presentations and hands-on lab exercises, students will learn about the core features of Operational Decision Manager. Students also receive intensive training in modeling business rule vocabulary, rule discovery, rule authoring, and rule governance and management. This course uses realistic scenarios and a case study to illustrate the principles and good practices for discovering, analyzing, and authoring business rules.

• Describing the benefits of implementing an Operational Decision Manager solution
• Identifying the main user roles and tasks that are involved in designing and developing an Operational Decision Manager solution
• Explaining modeling concepts and the UML notation that is relevant to modeling for business rules
• Defining and implementing object models for business rules
• Setting up the rule authoring environment in Designer by working with decision services and synchronizing across development and business environments
• Transforming business policy into rule statements and make sure that they form a complete and coherent set of rules
• Using the Operational Decision Manager rule editors to author business rules and decision tables
• Running tests and simulations in the Decision Center Business console to validate decision logic and rule changes
• Working with Decision Center decision service administration tools
• Managing user access and permissions in the Business console
• Using Operational Decision Manager tools to support decision governance

Business Analysts

No prerequisites are required for this course.

At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Describe the benefits of implementing an Operational Decision Manager solution
• Identify the main user roles and tasks that are involved in designing and developing an Operational Decision Manager solution
• Explain modeling concepts and the UML notation that is relevant to modeling for business rules
• Define and implement object models for business rules
• Set up the rule authoring environment in Designer by working with decision services and synchronizing across development and business environments
• Transform business policy into rule statements and make sure that they form a complete and coherent set of rules
• Use the Operational Decision Manager rule editors to author business rules and decision tables
• Run tests and simulations in the Decision Center Business console to validate decision logic and rule changes
• Work with Decision Center decision service administration tools
• Manage user access and permissions in the Business console
• Use Operational Decision Manager tools to support decision governance

Please check the course description to find prerequisite information.