Building decision models

Decision models allow you to capture business decisions in a decision diagram, an easily understood representation that includes the data that is needed to make these decisions.

The modeling process is made of five steps that are performed iteratively until you have a complete and coherent model:

Diagram depicting the modeling workflow, from designing a decision to validating it
  1. Design the decision that you want to automate. Think about how you can break your decision into smaller decisions to make your model simpler to manage and identify the data that is needed to make this decision.
  2. Create a data model and populate it with data types to represent the data that is necessary to make your decision.
  3. Create a decision model and build a diagram that represents your decision, its subdecisions, and the data that influences them.
  4. Add the decision logic to define how each decision is made by creating business rules and decision tables.
  5. Create test data sets to run your decision and make sure it works as expected.