Managing Decisions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6

Course details

This course introduces business analysts to IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6. You learn the concepts and skills that are necessary to capture, author, validate, and manage business rules with Operational Decision Manager.

Target Audience:

This intermediate course is designed for business analysts.

Prerequisites:

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 V8.6
• Exercise: Operational Decision Manager in action
• Modeling for business rules
• Exercise: Building the model on paper
• Exercise: Implementing the model
• Understanding rule projects
• Exercise: Setting up a rule project
• 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
• Reviewing rules
• Exercise: Reviewing rules
• Running tests and simulations with Decision Validation Services
• Exercise: Running tests and simulations
• Introducing Enterprise console management features
• Exercise: Working with Enterprise console management features
• Introducing decision governance
• Exercise: Working with the decision governance framework
• Course summary