Developing Decision Services in IBM Operational Decision Manager–I

• Course introduction
  
  • Unit 1. Introducing IBM Operational Decision Manager
    Exercise 1. Operational Decision Manager in action
    
  • Unit 2. Developing decision services
    Exercise 2. Setting up decision services
    
  • Unit 3. Programming with business rules
    
  • Unit 4. Orchestrating ruleset execution
    Exercise 3. Working with ruleflows
    
  • Unit 5. Developing object models
    Exercise 4. Working with the BOM
    Exercise 5. Refactoring
    
  • Unit 6. Authoring rules
    Exercise 6. Exploring action rules
    Exercise 7. Authoring action rules
    Exercise 8. Authoring decision tables
    
  • Unit 7. Enabling tests and simulations
    Exercise 9. Enabling rule validation
    
  • Course summary

This course is designed for developers.

Before taking this course, you should have:

• Experience with the Java programming language and object-oriented concepts
  -Basic knowledge of Extensible Markup Language (XML)

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the benefits of implementing a decision management solution with Operational Decision Manager
  
• Identify the key user roles that are involved in designing and developing a decision management solution, and the tasks that are associated with each role
  
• Describe the development process of building a business rule application and the collaboration between business and development teams
  
• Set up the Business Object Model (BOM) and vocabulary for rule authoring
  
• Implement the Execution Object Model (XOM) that enables rule execution
  
• Orchestrate rule execution through ruleflows
  
• Author rule artifacts to implement business policies
  
• Set up and customize rule validation for business users to ensure that rulesets produce the expected outcome