Developing Rule Solutions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6

An updated version of this course is available. For more information, click Developing Rule Solutions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.7 .

This course is also available as classroom course, Developing Rule Solutions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.0 .

This course introduces developers to IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6. In this course, you learn the concepts and skills that you need to design, develop, and integrate a business rule solution with Operational Decision Manager.

Profil uczestnika

This intermediate course is designed for application developers.

Agenda

• Course introduction
• Introducing IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6
• Exercise: Operational Decision Manager in action
• Getting started with business rule application development
• Exercise: Setting up rule projects
• Programming with business rules
• Developing object models
• Exercise: Working with the BOM
• Exercise: Refactoring
• Orchestrating ruleset execution
• Exercise: Working with ruleflows
• Authoring rules
• Exercise: Exploring action rules
• Exercise: Authoring action rules
• Exercise: Authoring decision tables and decision trees
• Customizing rule vocabulary with categories and domains
• Exercise: Working with static domains
• Exercise: Working with dynamic domains
• Queries and ruleset extraction
• Exercise: Queries and ruleset extraction
• Debugging rules
• Exercise: Executing rules locally
• Exercise: Debugging a ruleset
• Enabling tests and simulations
• Exercise: Enabling tests and simulations
• Managing deployment
• Exercise: Managing deployment
• Executing rules with Rule Execution Server
• Exercise: Exploring the Rule Execution Server console
• Exercise: Executing rules with Rule Execution Server in Java SE
• Exercise: Executing rules with Rule Execution Server in Java EE
• Exercise: Executing rules as a hosted transparent decision service (HTDS)
• Auditing and monitoring ruleset execution
• Exercise: Auditing ruleset execution through Decision Warehouse
• Working with the REST API
• Exercise: Working with the REST API
• Introducing decision governance
• Exercise: Working with decision services
• Course summary

Wymagane przygotowanie uczestników

You should have:

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

Zagadnienia

• 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 the testing and simulation environment for business users
• Package and deploy rulesets to testing and production environments
• Integrate decision services for managed execution within an enterprise environment
• Build client applications to invoke ruleset execution
• Test, monitor, and audit execution of decision services
• Work with Operational Decision Manager features that support decision governance, including the decision governance framework for decision services