Introducing the Business console

The Business console offers a collaborative and secure environment for business users and rule developers to author, manage, test, and deploy rules.

In the Business console, you access decision services that contain all the elements necessary to author and manage business rules. These elements are contained in a rule repository, which is a database that is connected to Decision Center.

Changes to business rules are not reflected back automatically to the client applications that call them. They must first be deployed. In the Business console, users with the appropriate rights can deploy rules to a production environment. Other users can deploy rules to nonproduction servers to validate their changes.

The rules that you work on are organized as part of a greater set of rules, starting with a decision service, and then in a branching mechanism that handles changes over time. See Identifying a set of rules for more information.