Using the Decision Assistant

The Decision Assistant is designed to make it simple enough for anyone to build decision services. It includes generative AI capabilities that can interpret policy descriptions that are written in natural language and translate them into business rules.

The Decision Assistant is a chat-based interactive tool that can help you accelerate your decision-making processes. Simply provide a description of the decision that you want to automate and the assistant will generate a decision service in just a few minutes. If your decision is governed by a strict business policy, you can also paste the policy into the chat for an even more accurate result.

Decision Assistant interaction

The generated decision service contains:

  • A data model: A collection of data types representing the information required for your decision.
  • A decision implementation, which can be one of the following:
    • A decision model: Uses a decision diagram to define logic, rules, and dependencies between inputs and decisions.
    • A task model: Defines decision logic outside of a diagram and organizes it into business rules and ruleflows that control the sequence and conditions for executing tasks.

Starting from basic models, the assistant builds them step-by-step as you interact with it by adding data types, defining the structure of the decision, and authoring the decision logic that drives your decision.

When your decision service is complete, you can continue to refine it in Decision Designer, our fully fledged modeling environment. From Decision Designer, you will also be able to test, build, and deploy your decision service.

Decision services with task models can be as exported JSON specifications and used in IBM Operational Decision Manager. After you export the decision service, you use a REST API to apply the specification and create the corresponding decision service in Decision Center in Operational Decision Manager.