Key features
The following table shows the primary features in Decision Center. Unless otherwise indicated, you can find these features in the Business console.
To customize Decision Center, contact your cloud support team. They can modify features for handling data and editing rules to better match the interface and performance of the component to your business.
| Feature | Decision Center | |
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| Authoring | Creating rule projects |
You can view and edit decision services. |
| AI development |
You can use decision services that are defined in IBM Decision Intelligence, a development system powered by watsonx AI. You work on them in the Decision Center Business console. |
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| Authoring rules |
You use the Intellirule editor to build rules. |
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| Working with ruleflows |
You can create ruleflows and add different types of elements to control the execution of rules. |
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| Working with technical rules |
You can see and update technical rules. |
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| Working with functions |
You can see and update functions. |
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| Validating | Running tests and simulations |
You can validate your rules using test suites and simulations. |
| Deploying | Creating deployment configurations |
As a Decision Center administrator, you can create and edit deployment configurations. |
| Managing servers |
As a Decision Center administrator, you can manage the list of servers available to Decision Center and who has access to them. |
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| Managing | Governing changes |
You can use the decision governance framework, a predefined release workflow that is based on change and validation activities. |
| Managing custom permissions |
The Business console provides permission profiles that you can combine with the decision governance framework. |
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| Managing dependencies between projects |
As an administrator or configuration manager, you can set up project dependencies to make projects available in different decision services or branches. A decision service can contain several projects, which are linked together by default. |
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| Managing branches |
You can create and merge branches to manage the evolution of projects over time. |
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| Creating decision operations |
You can create decision operations, which include the settings that define the contents of a ruleset and its parameters. |
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| Working with dynamic domains |
You can update dynamic domains and your project in the Business console. |
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| Taking snapshots |
You can take snapshots to capture the state of a branch at a specific moment in time. |
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| Deprecated Following streams and posting comments |
You can follow streams and post comments that other users can reply to. |
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| Using decision artifacts |
You can use the decision artifacts to navigate through a decision service. You can use the search bar or queries to find project elements according to specific criteria, and display the properties that you want to see by selecting the columns in your user profile. |
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| Creating and running queries |
You can use queries to search through the elements in your projects. |
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| Configuring | Running diagnostics |
As a Decision Center administrator, you can run diagnostics on different parts of Decision Center to check the state of your system. |