Key features

Decision Center enables business users to work directly on decision services. Learn about its key features for developing, managing, and deploying rule applications.

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
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.

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Deploying Creating deployment configurations

As a Decision Center administrator, you can create and edit deployment configurations.

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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.

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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.

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A decision service can contain several projects, which are linked together by default.

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.

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