IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.0.1 information roadmap

Understand the overall purpose, capabilities, and new features of Operational Decision Manager products.

Figure 1. IBM Operational Decision Manager products and components for improved decision management

• Operational Decision Manager product presentation page (Web page): IBM Operational Decision Manager provides the power to intelligently automate a wide range of decisions across business processes and applications.

• IBM Operational Decision Manager Pattern (Decision Server Hypervisor Edition on RHEL) presentation page (Web page): IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Pattern is a combination of IBM Operational Decision Manager and the operating system optimized to run in server virtualization environments.

• IBM Operational Decision Manager Pattern (Decision Center Hypervisor Edition on RHEL) presentation page (Web page): IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Pattern is a combination of IBM Operational Decision Manager and the operating system optimized to run in server virtualization environments.

• Operational Decision Manager for z/OS product presentation page (Web page): IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS provides comprehensive automation and governance of operational decisions that are made within mainframe applications.

• Overview: Operational Decision Manager product family (Information Center): To implement a decision management solution you must understand the various modules that make up the product line family and choose the architecture that best suits your needs.

• Overview: IBM ODM patterns on PureApplication System or IBM Workload Deployer (Information Center): IBM Operational Decision Manager (IBM® ODM) provides virtual system patterns to run the product in a private cloud. You can use IBM PureApplication System or IBM Workload Deployer to host IBM ODM patterns and images.

• Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics (Book-IBM Press): Decision Management Systems offers trusted advice for applying Decision Management to your own problems and environment. Both a practical how-to guide and a framework for planning, it shows how to refocus existing analytics and business rules initiatives for greater long-term value, and overcome the specific obstacles that can derail your Decision Management initiative.

• Making Better Decisions Using IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management (IBM Redbooks-Redbooks): Decision management is emerging as an important capability for delivering agile business solutions. Decision management is not a solution in its own right, but must be integrated into the solutions or business processes that it supports. In this IBM® Redpapers™ publication, we describe the recommended best practices and integration concepts that use the business events, business rules, and other capabilities of IBM WebSphere® Operational Decision Management V7.5 (WebSphere ODM) to provide better decision making in those solutions and business processes.

• Decision Management blog (Blog entry): A blog dedicated to improving the timing and quality of your most important operational decisions for better business outcomes; featuring a weekly drip of thoughtful opinion, insights and education related to the practice of decision management from people who are actually doing the work.

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Find out how to implement Operational Decision Manager in new and existing environments.

• What's new in Operational Decision Manager V8.0.1 (Information Center): Operational Decision Manager V8.0.1 includes new features for business users, developers, administrators, and system programmers.

• What's new in IBM Operational Decision Manager Pattern V8.0.1 (Information Center): Operational Decision Manager Pattern V8.0.1 includes extended support of platforms, new features, and changes to the topology of the pattern.

• Hardware and software requirements (System requirements): The list of supported releases of Operational Decision Manager and Operational Decision Manager for z/OS, V8.0.1 from which you can select specific detailed system requirements.

• Announcement letter, Operational Decision Manager for z/OS V8.0.1 (Web page): IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS V8.0.1 combines rules and events management on z/OS and adds new rule execution capabilities for mainframe applications.

• Announcement letter, Operational Decision Manager V8.0.1 (Web page): IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.0.1 provides a combined business rules and events management platform to automate a wide range of decisions.

• Announcement letter, IBM Operational Decision Manager Pattern V8.0.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server and on AIX (Web page): IBM Operational Decision Manager Pattern (ODM Pattern) V8.0.1 is a combination of IBM ODM and the operating system optimized to run in server virtualization environments.

• Readme (Information Center): These notes support IBM® Operational Decision Manager V8.0.1. Information in this document, including web addresses and other website references, is subject to change without notice and is provided for information purposes only.

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Follow step-by-step tutorials to become familiar with Operational Decision Manager products.

• Glossary (Information Center): Refer to the glossary to find quick descriptions of unfamiliar terms.

• Getting started with business rules, Decision Server (Information Center): This Getting started tutorial helps you to take your first steps with IBM WebSphere Decision Server V8.0.

• Getting started with event rules, Decision Server (Information Center): In the tutorial, you build a small application around the scenario of an insurance company identifying business opportunities by using business event processing.

• Getting started with business rules, Decision Center (Information Center): This Getting started tutorial helps you to take your first steps with Decision Center Enterprise console.

• Getting started with business rules, Decision Center Business console (Information Center): This tutorial shows you how to create snapshots, add comments, and do searches as you review, manage, and create business rules in the Decision Center Business console.

• Site map: Getting started tutorials (Information Center): The getting started tutorials are aimed at beginners and users who want to learn the basic workflows of Operational Decision Manager. They are designed to give you quick exposure to the products and give you an introductory understanding of the steps required to create a decision service.

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Follow step-by-step tutorials to explore the functionality available in Operational Decision Manager products.

• Site map: Tutorials (Information Center): The following tutorials are designed to transfer knowledge and should be used as an aid in the learning process. The tutorials seek to teach by example and provide instructions to complete a set of tasks.

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The product offers samples that demonstrate common enterprise application tasks. Many samples also provide instructions for deployment and coding examples.

• Site map: Samples (Information Center): Use this site map to help you locate the samples that are of interest to you. The following samples make use of example code and example applications to help you to learn how to use the Operational Decision Manager APIs, and accelerate your own development or administration tasks.

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The resources in this section provide information about troubleshooting problems with Operational Decision Manager and its components.

• WebSphere Operational Decision Management Forums (Forum-Site): This forum is for technical discussions around the WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS and WebSphere ILOG Rules for .NET BRMS family of products. It includes support for the trial versions of available products.

• Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Decision Server Events (Support document-Technote): The following list includes frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Decision Server Events to help you troubleshoot potential problems and enhance your use of the product.

• Troubleshooting and support in Operational Decision Manager (Information Center): Find information on how to troubleshoot Operational Decision Manager or get support from IBM®.

• Accessibility (Information Center): Accessibility features enable people with disabilities, such as restricted mobility and limited vision, to work successfully with Operational Decision Manager.

• Support portal for Operational Decision Manager (Web page): View product overview content on the support portal for Operational Decision Manager.

• Support portal: Patterns for IBM Operational Decision Manager (Web page): This document provides access to the support information for a Pattern that is available for IBM Operational Decision Manager software .

• Troubleshooting topics for Operational Decision Manager (Web page): These resources can help diagnose and resolve troublesome issues.

• Troubleshooting and support for Decision Center for z/OS (Information Center): Decision Center for z/OS® provides a number of tools to help you diagnose and debug issues.

• Troubleshooting and support for Decision Server for z/OS (Information Center): Decision Server for z/OS® provides a number of tools to help you diagnose and debug issues.

• Operational Decision Manager V8.0.1 known limitations (Support document-Technote): This page covers late changes to the product, problems found in releases, and missing information in the documentation.

• Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Decision Center (Support document-Technote): The following list includes frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Decision Center to help you troubleshoot potential problems and enhance how you use the product.

• Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Decision Server Rules (Support document-Technote): The following list includes frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Decision Server Rules to help you troubleshoot potential problems and enhance your use of the product.

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The resources in this section provide information about training and education for Operational Decision Manager products.

• Education Assistant for Operational Decision Manager (Web page): IBM Education Assistant is a collection of multimedia educational modules designed to help you gain a better understanding of IBM software products and use them more effectively to meet your business requirements.

• Certification (Web page): The IBM Certification Program will assist in laying the groundwork for your personal journey to become a world-class resource to your customers, colleagues, and company, by providing you with the appropriate skills and accreditation needed to succeed.

• Developing Rule Solutions in IBM Operational Decision Manager (for developers) (Training course): Learn how to develop business rule applications with Operational Decision Manager products.

• Managing Decisions in IBM Operational Decision Manager (for business analysts) (Training course): Learn how to capture, manage, and govern business rule and event-based decision logic based on organizational knowledge and best practices, using Operational Decision Manager products.

• Developing Event Solutions in IBM Operational Decision Manager (Training course): Learn how to develop event applications with Operational Decision Manager products.

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Find out how to install Operational Decision Manager products.

• Installing Operational Decision Manager (Information Center): You can install Operational Decision Manager using the Launch Pad and IBM Installation Manager.

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Find information about setting up your Operational Decision Manager environment.

• Configuring Operational Decision Manager (Information Center): On a distributed platform, you deploy and configure the provided archives for the supported application servers in order to test and execute your rule applications in the environment that you use in production On z/OS, you must configure the execution environments after you install the products.

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Find out how to migrate applications developed in previous versions to the current version.

• Migrating and upgrading your applications (Information Center): After you have installed V8.0.1 of Operational Decision Manager, you can then migrate your applications from previous versions. These applications can be developed in WebSphere Operational Decision Management, JRules, Rules for .NET, or WebSphere Business Events.

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Various programming interfaces are available to enrich your applications and use the services provided by Operational Decision Manager products.

• Programming reference, Decision Server for z/OS (Information Center): A set of reference topics for managing business rule and event applications running on z/OS.

• Programming reference, Decision Server Rules (Information Center): A set of reference topics that includes API, libraries, rule languages, and user interfaces.

• Programming reference, Decision Server Events (Information Center): A set of reference topics for configuring, building, and monitoring event applications.

• Programming reference, Decision Center (Information Center): Refer to these topics for public API for Decision Center and Rule Solutions for Office.

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Operational Decision Manager complements other IBM products to empower businesses to automate, manage and improve the decision cycle in the face of growing complexity and change.

• Synergies with other IBM products (Information Center): Operational Decision Manager complements other IBM products to empower businesses to automate, manage and improve the decision cycle in the face of growing complexity and change.

• Integrating with other IBM software (Information Center): Decision Server Events supports integration with several other IBM software products.

• Overview: Business Rules Embedded (Information Center): Business Rules Embedded is an SDK that allows its underlying Operational Decision Manager business rules technology to be integrated into another application or IBM product. Developers can define a business language, author business rules, and execute them in the context of their application. A Decision Server license is required to use the Business Rules Embeddedrun time. Rules developed by using Business Rules Embedded can be exported to Operational Decision Manager to allow more sophisticated decisions and a full range of management capabilities.

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Operational Decision Manager comes with specific interfaces that have their own online helps.

• Rule Execution Server Console online help (Information Center): This online help describes the user interface and the tasks that you can perform using the Rule Execution Server web application.

• Decision Center Business Console online help (Information Center): This online help describes the user interface and the tasks that you can perform using the Decision Center Business Console.

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Understand and analyze performance data, troubleshoot performance problems, develop applications that perform better, and tune many aspects of the Operational Decision Manager environment.

• Performance guidelines, Decision Center (Information Center): You can improve the performance of Decision Center by adapting the architecture to suit your usage.

• Performance guidelines, Decision Server Rules (Information Center): Business rule applications perform better if you design the organization of your application into rule projects, and limit the size of the resources that are eventually deployed to the execution environment.

• IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management V8.0 Performance Tuning Guide (IBM Redbooks-Redpaper): WebSphere® Operational Decision Management (WODM) V8.0. is a family of products used by IT and Business users to create and manage business decision logic used throughout their organization. This book offers advice on all aspects of performance, including hardware, architecture, authoring, quality of service, monitoring and tuning. The advice is based upon preferred practices and experience gained from real customer situations.

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Find general resources for the WebSphere community.

• Global WebSphere community (Web page): Share with the WebSphere users community.

• IBM WebSphere RedBooks (Web page): Find IBM Redbooks for WebSphere products.

• IBM PartnerWorld (Web page): Put the power of IBM behind your business. Discover the benefits and resources available to IBM Business Partners.

• Consumability survey (HTML page): Provide feedback on your experience with IBM products, from the initial installation and configuration to long-term operations. By sharing your experience and priorities with us, you help ensure that future releases of our products meet your needs.

• Information center feedback form (HTML page): Use this form to submit comments about the information center. Your comments are sent directly to the authors to help improve IBM product information.

• Notices (Topic): Legal notices for Operational Decision Manager products.

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