Managing Decisions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.7.1

Course Code: ZB396G
Duration: 40 Hours
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Course Description

  • An updated version of this course is available. For more information, click Managing Decisions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.9 (ZB401G).

    This course is also available as classroom course Managing Decisions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.7.1 (WB396G).

    This course introduces business analysts to IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.7.1. You learn the concepts and skills that are necessary to capture, author, validate, and manage business rules with Operational Decision Manager.

    IBM Operational Decision Manager provides a complete platform for managing business rules by helping to automate and govern decisions across processes and applications.

    This course focuses on the iterative nature of working collaboratively with business policy experts and development teams on rule projects. Through instructor-led presentations, product demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises, you learn about the core features of Operational Decision Manager. You also receive intensive training in modeling business rule vocabulary, rule discovery, rule authoring, and rule governance and management. The course uses realistic scenarios and a case study to illustrate the principles and good practices for discovering, analyzing, and authoring business rules.
    The lab environment for this course uses Windows 2008 Server R2 Standard.

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Objectives

  • After completing this course, you should be able to:

  • Describe the benefits of implementing an Operational Decision Manager solution, and the collaboration that is required between the business and development teams
  • Identify the main user roles that are involved in designing and developing an Operational Decision Manager solution, and the tasks that are associated with each role
  • Explain modeling concepts and the UML notation that is relevant to modeling for business rules and events
  • 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
  • Customize the vocabulary that is used in rules
  • Discover and analyze business rules for implementation
  • Use the Operational Decision Manager rule editors to author business rules and decision tables
  • Run tests and simulations in the Decision Center Enterprise console to validate decision logic and rule changes
  • Explain governance issues and work with Operational Decision Manager features that support decision governance

Audience

  • This course is designed for business analysts.

Prerequisites

  • Before taking this course, you should have:

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

Content

  • Course introduction
    Introducing IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.7.1
    Exercise: Operational Decision Manager in action
    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 Decision Center
    Exercise: Exploring the Decision Center Business console
    Exercise: Exploring the Decision Center Enterprise console
    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 and trees
    Exercise: Authoring decision tables and trees
    Exercise: Authoring rules: Putting it all together
    Running tests and simulations in the Enterprise console
    Exercise: Running tests and simulations in the Enterprise console
    Introducing decision governance
    Exercise: Working with the decision governance framework
    Course summary