Developing Rule Solutions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.9 WB400G

This course is designed for application developers.

• 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 and customize 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
• Debug business rule applications to ensure that the implemented business logic is error-free
• Set up and customize testing and simulation for business users
• Package and deploy decision services to test and production environments
• Integrate decision services for managed execution within an enterprise environment
• Monitor and audit execution of decision services

• Experience with the Java programming language and object-oriented concepts
• Knowledge of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE)
• Basic knowledge of the REST API and RESTful architecture

• Course introduction
• Developing decision services
• Exercise: Setting up decision services
• Programming with business rules
• Developing object models
• Exercise: Working with the BOM
• Exercise: Refactoring
• Orchestrating ruleset execution
• Exercise: Working with ruleflows
• Authoring rules
• Exercise: Exploring action rules
• Exercise: Authoring action rules
• Exercise: Authoring decision tables
• Customizing rule vocabulary with categories and domains
• Exercise: Working with static domains
• Exercise: Working with dynamic domains
• Working with queries
• Exercise: Working with queries
• Debugging rules
• Exercise: Executing rules locally
• Exercise: Debugging a ruleset
• Enabling tests and simulations
• Exercise: Enabling rule validation
• Managing deployment
• Exercise: Managing deployment
• Exercise: Using Build Command to build RuleApps
• Executing rules with Rule Execution Server
• Exercise: Exploring the Rule Execution Server console
• Auditing and monitoring ruleset execution
• Working with the REST API
• Exercise: Executing rules as a hosted transparent decision service (HTDS)
• Introducing decision governance
• Course summary