IBM WB404G - Developing Rule Solutions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.10.5

Course Outline

• Introducing IBM Operational Decision Manager
• Exercise 1. Operational Decision Manager in action
• Developing decision services
• Exercise 2. Setting up decision services
• Modeling decisions
• Exercise 3. Modeling decisions
• Programming with business rules
• Developing object models
• Exercise 4. Working with the BOM
• Exercise 5. Refactoring
• Orchestrating ruleset execution
• Exercise 6. Working with ruleflows
• Authoring rules
• Exercise 7. Exploring action rules
• Exercise 8. Authoring action rules
• Exercise 9. Authoring decision tables
• Customizing rule vocabulary with categories and domains
• Exercise 10. Working with static domains
• Exercise 11. Working with dynamic domains
• Working with queries
• Exercise 12. Working with searches and queries
• Debugging rulesets
• Exercise 13. Debugging a ruleset
• Enabling tests and simulations
• Exercise 14. Enabling rule validation
• Managing deployment
• Exercise 15. Managing deployment
• Executing rules with Rule Execution Server
• Exercise 16. Exploring the Rule Execution Server console
• Working with transparent decision services
• Exercise 17. Executing rules using the REST service
• Auditing and monitoring ruleset execution
• Exercise 18. Auditing ruleset execution through Decision Warehouse
• Applying decision governance
• Course summary

Objective

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 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
• Work with Operational Decision Manager features that support decision governance

Exercises

• Exercise 1. Operational Decision Manager in action
• Exercise 2. Setting up decision services
• Exercise 3. Modeling decisions
• Exercise 4. Working with the BOM
• Exercise 5. Refactoring
• Exercise 6. Working with ruleflows
• Exercise 7. Exploring action rules
• Exercise 8. Authoring action rules
• Exercise 9. Authoring decision tables
• Exercise 10. Working with static domains
• Exercise 11. Working with dynamic domains
• Exercise 12. Working with searches and queries
• Exercise 13. Debugging a ruleset
• Exercise 14. Enabling rule validation
• Exercise 15. Managing deployment
• Exercise 16. Exploring the Rule Execution Server console
• Exercise 17. Executing rules using the REST service
• Exercise 18. Auditing ruleset execution through Decision Warehouse

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have:

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

Audience

This course is designed for developers.