Managing Decisions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6 - ZB391G

Description

This course is also available as classroom course Managing Decisions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6 (WB391G).

This course introduces business analysts to IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6. You learn the concepts and skills that are necessary to capture, author, validate, and manage business rules with Operational Decision Manager.

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Course introduction
Introducing IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6
Exercise: Operational Decision Manager in action
Modeling for business rules
Exercise: Building the model on paper
Exercise: Implementing the model
Understanding rule projects
Exercise: Setting up a rule project
Working with the BOM
Exercise: Working with the BOM
Introducing Decision Center
Exercise: Exploring the Decision Center Business console
Exercise: Exploring the Decision Center Enterprise console
Introducing rule authoring
Exercise: Understanding the case study
Discovering and analyzing rules
Exercise: Discovering rules
Exercise: Analyzing rules
Working with conditions in rules
Exercise: Working with conditions in rules
Working with definitions in rules
Exercise: Working with definitions in rules
Writing complete rules
Exercise: Writing complete rules
Authoring decision tables and trees
Exercise: Authoring decision tables and trees
Exercise: Authoring rules: Putting it all together
Reviewing rules
Exercise: Reviewing rules
Running tests and simulations with Decision Validation Services
Exercise: Running tests and simulations
Introducing Enterprise console management features
Exercise: Working with Enterprise console management features
Introducing decision governance
Exercise: Working with the decision governance framework
Course summary

Aim

Describe the benefits of implementing an Operational Decision Manager solution, and the collaboration that is required between the business and development teams
Identify the main user roles that are involved in designing and developing an Operational Decision Manager solution, and the tasks that are associated with each role
Explain modeling concepts and the UML notation that is relevant to modeling for business rules and events
Define and implement object models for business rules
Set up the rule authoring environment in Designer by working with rule projects, and synchronizing across development and business environments
Customize the vocabulary that is used in rules
Use good practices to discover and analyze business rules for implementation
Use the Operational Decision Manager rule editors to author business rules and decision tables
Run tests and simulations in Decision Center to validate decision logic and rule changes
Use various Decision Center features that support project management, such as smart folders and user options
Explain governance issues and work with Operational Decision Manager features that support decision governance

Participant requirements

You should have:

Experience with identifying and defining business policies and rules
A basic understanding of business models

Participant

This intermediate course is designed for business analysts.