Decision
Center is
a scalable decision management application and repository with collaborative
web environments for authoring, managing, validating, and deploying
decision services. 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.
The following diagram illustrates the main tools and tasks for
decision management in Decision
Center.
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.
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- Get started
- To get started with the tools and processes for decision management,
follow a tutorial. To learn more about decision management in Decision
Center,
read its overview.
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Getting started with decision services
Exploring decision services in a governance workflow
Overview: Decision Center
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- Configure
- For business users to manage automated decisions, you configure
the projects and work environment to ensure ease of use and security.
You can configure and customize the model and vocabulary that is used
in the rules, and you can define permissions for different types of
users. You also set up the deployment configurations. Part of the
configuration can be done in Rule
Designer,
or in Decision
Center for
users with administrator privileges.
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Administering Decision Center
Security
Customizing Decision Center
Designing projects for rule authoring
Sample: Business console custom value editor
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- Synchronize
- Synchronization is the link between the IT cycle and the business
cycle. When the projects are ready on the IT side, you can publish
them to Decision
Center.
When you publish a decision service, you choose whether the decision
service is managed with regular branches, or with the decision governance
framework in the Business console.
- If you publish a classic rule project, only regular branches
are available to manage rules.
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Synchronizing and storing rules
Managing changes
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- Manage
- To manage decision services, you can use the decision governance
framework, a predefined release workflow that is based on change and
validation activities. You can also choose to use regular branches
for a customized change management workflow. The decision governance
framework is only available in the Business console.
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Overview: Identifying a set of rules
Managing changes
Exploring decision services in a governance workflow
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- Author
- Business users can author action rules and decision tables, and Decision
Center tracks
versions of rules. With the decision governance framework, you must
create a change activity within a release to modify rules.
Policy
managers and rule authors can author business rules in the Decision
Center Business
and Enterprise consoles. You can integrate business rule authoring
and management extensions that are developed in Rule
Designer into
the Decision
Center consoles.
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Working with rules
Getting started with decision services
Authoring extensions for Decision
Center
Business rule management extensions for Decision
Center
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- Validate
- Decision
Center includes
testing and simulation features that enable business users to validate
the behavior of rules. Business users must be confident that business
rules are written correctly and that any update does not break the
business logic encapsulated in the ruleset. Business users validate
the business logic against well-defined usage scenarios, by running
tests and simulations against their rules.
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Testing and simulating decisions
Testing sets of rules
Simulating business application results
Sample: Business console simulation
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- Deploy
- Business users can deploy decision services directly from the
Business console. In the context of the decision governance framework,
deployment to production can happen only when all activities and the
release are complete. You can set up nonproduction deployment configurations
that business users can use for test purposes.
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Deploying rules
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- Administer
- You administer user access and the configuration of the Decision
Center database.
The Decision
Center database
provides services that support auditing and rollback of business rules.
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Administering Decision Center
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