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

Exercises

• Exercise 1. Operational Decision Manager in action
• Exercise 2. Setting up decision services
• Exercise 3. Working with ruleflows
• Exercise 4. Working with the BOM
• Exercise 5. Refactoring
• Exercise 6. Exploring action rules
• Exercise 7. Authoring action rules
• Exercise 8. Authoring decision tables
• Exercise 9. Enabling rule validation