Managing Decisions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.9 WB401G

This course is designed for business analysts.

• 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
• Manage user access and permissions in the Business console

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

• Course introduction
• Modeling for business rules
• Exercise: Building the model on paper
• Exercise: Implementing the model
• Understanding decision services
• Exercise: Setting up a decision service
• Working with the BOM
• Exercise: Working with the BOM
• 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
• Exercise: Authoring decision tables
• Exercise: Authoring rules: Putting it all together
• Running tests and simulations
• Exercise: Running tests and simulations in the Business console
• Introducing decision governance
• Exercise: Working with the decision governance framework
• Course summary