Introducing Operational Decision Manager

Operational Decision Manager enables a business to respond to real-time data with intelligent, automated decisions. With Operational Decision Manager, IT and business users alike can manage the business decision logic that is used by operational systems within an organization.

Business agility

Business agility depends on responsive, intelligent decision automation. Operational Decision Manager helps manage decisions separately from business applications, and with more flexibility and responsiveness to the changing needs of the business.

Business decisions

Decision Server provides tools for designing, developing, and deploying business rule applications. Rule Designer is an Eclipse-based development environment in which you can develop and integrate decision services. Rule Execution Server provides the runtime environment for running and monitoring decision services.

Decision management and governance

Decision Center is a scalable decision management application and repository with collaborative web environments for authoring, managing, validating, and deploying business rules and events. In the Business console, business users can work with a ready-to-use approach to change management and governance, which is based on releases and change activities. This approach is called decision governance. Developers who continue to work with classic rule projects can still publish rule projects to Decision Center and manage and deploy them in the Enterprise console.

Business insight

In a customer-centric, mobile world, businesses need to analyze the ever growing influx of data and events that affect their key interests (customers, patients, employees). Decision Server Insights identifies risk and opportunity on a continuous basis and helps applications to decide and act at the precise moment the business needs it.

Roles and activities

Operational Decision Manager comprises a set of modules that operate in different environments. Each step of the development lifecycle requires a specific set of skills and these activities can be divided into different users or roles. Roles within the team must be established early on in the development cycle.