Managing Business Decisions with WebSphere Operational Decision Management 8.0 Training

Upon completion of the course, students will:

• Describe the benefits of implementing an Operational Decision Management 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 Management solution, and the tasks that are associated with each role
• Explain modeling concepts and the Unified Modeling Language (UML) notation that is relevant to modeling for business rules and events
• Define and implement object models for business rules and event rules
• Use good practices to discover and analyze business rules for implementation
• Set up the rule authoring environment in Designer by working with rule and event projects, and synchronizing across development and business environments
• Customize the vocabulary that is used in rules
• Use the Operational Decision Management rule editors to author business rules, decision tables, and event rules
• Run tests and simulations in Decision Center and Business Space to validate decision logic and rule changes
• Use various Decision Center features that support project management, such as permission management, version control, smart folders, and multiple release management
• Explain governance issues and identify Operational Decision Management features that support decision governance and lifecycle management

You should have:

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