What's new

Learn about new features and enhancements for IBM Decision Intelligence.

June 2026 release

Accelerate updates to existing decision services with the enhanced Decision Assistant

The Decision Assistant now supports multi-turn interactions, making it faster and easier to create and update decision services. You can refine decision services, decision and data models, and business rules in just a few steps by using natural, conversational prompts. Learn more

Interact with Decision Designer through an MCP server

Decision Intelligence now includes an MCP server that enables AI applications to interact with Decision Designer. Using the MCP server, you can manage and update decision services, decision and data models, and rules through conversational commands. Learn more

Monitor deployed decision services from Decision Designer

You can now view and manage deployed decision services from the Decision deployments page:

• Promote decision services to the test and production deployment spaces.
• Review the metadata that is associated with deployed decision services.
• Enable decision execution metrics tracking.
• Undeploy decision services.

Learn more

New endpoints available for deployed decision services

The following endpoints allow customers to explore decision services that are deployed to the decision runtime:

• GET /decisionServices/{decisionServiceId}
• DELETE /decisionServices/{decisionServiceId}
• GET /decisionServices

For more information, see the Decision Services Management section in the Decision runtime API reference manual in Reference.

Test decision services more efficiently

Business-led testing is now available for decision services allowing you to define expected outputs and automatically validate results with clear pass and fail indicators. You can run assertions both on demand from the Run tab or during deployment. This helps ensure accuracy and confidence before deploying your decision services. Learn more

Assign access to user groups

You can now grant access to decision automations by assigning user groups in addition to individual users. Learn more

Define reusable actions in data models

You can now create actions as a new type of business function within data models. These reusable actions can be applied across business rules and decision tables, helping you standardize logic and improve consistency across your decision services. Learn more

Reuse decision artifacts across decision automations

Decision artifacts can now be shared across multiple decision services, regardless of whether they belong to the same decision automation or different automations. This enhancement enables better modularity and reduces duplication when building decision logic. Learn more

Compare revisions of decision artifacts

You can now compare different revisions of a decision artifact to identify what changes were made over time. Learn more

Set default values for data type properties in definition files

You can now specify default values for data type properties by using the default key. Default values are automatically applied during schema import and reflected in the generated JSON schema and OpenAPI documentation. Learn more

Learn how to use Decision Intelligence

• The following tutorials are now available to help you get started and build best practices:
  • Best practices for modeling decisions
  • Best practices for defining the decision logic
  • Using a definition file to create a data model
• Interactive product demos are now available from the Get help menu in Decision Intelligence.

March 2026 release

Create business functions

In addition to static data types, you can now create business functions that encapsulate reusable logic within your data models. A dedicated expression language is available to author these functions in a business-friendly, declarative format. Learn more

Reuse artifacts across decision services

You can now publish individual decision artifacts from versioned decision automations and reuse them across other decision services within your automation. This update helps standardize decision logic, reduce duplication, and simplify maintenance. Learn more

Improved execution traces

Objects in the execution trace are now fully represented up to an approximate size limit of 10 MB. After this limit is reached, objects are represented by their hash code instead of their full state. Learn more

Promote decision services to multiple deployment spaces

Decision Intelligence now provides three deployment spaces: development, test, and production, allowing you to deploy decision service archives:

• From development to test or production
• From test to production

You can use deployment spaces for testing or production to maintain a strict separation from the development environment. Learn more

Decision Insights supports new aggregation types

The Variance and Standard deviation aggregations provide statistical measures of data dispersion. They help you understand how much numeric values vary from their average, providing extra analytical context beyond basic aggregations such as Sum or Average. Learn more

Learn how to use Decision Intelligence

The following tutorials are now available in the documentation:

• Importing a PMML file to create a transparent predictive model
• Using generative AI within decisions

The Creating, deploying, and monitoring a decision service tutorial has also been expanded to include instructions on how to use Decision Insights.

December 2025 release

Connect AI agents to IBM Decision Intelligence

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Decision Intelligence now enables AI applications, such as IBM watsonx Orchestrate and Anthropic Claude AI, to seamlessly discover and execute deployed decision services. Learn more

Generate task models with the Decision Assistant for IBM Operational Decision Manager  Beta 

In addition to decision models, you can now use the Decision Assistant to generate task models. These models, along with project specifications, can be exported from Decision Intelligence to be used by IBM Operational Decision Manager. Learn more

Improved user experience in the Decision Assistant  Beta 

• No policy document to provide? The Decision Assistant now creates policy documents automatically.
• You can now access your business policy at any time, whether you provided it or the assistant generated it, right from the new Policy tab.
• From the Policy tab, you can also view how and where each part of the business policy is applied within the decision service, providing clear visibility into its usage.
• Learn more

Build dashboards to track business KPIs and metrics

You can now monitor and analyze the performance of your decision services with interactive dashboards. Decision Insights provides real-time visibility into decision outcomes, KPIs, and trends, helping you detect anomalies and optimize performance. You can use customizable visualizations, apply filters, and share dashboards for collaboration and transparency. Learn more

Set and track goals in dashboards

You can now define business goals and associate them with charts in your dashboards. Goals help you align dashboards with organizational objectives by adding purpose, scope, and structure. It helps you visualize progress at a glance, group-related charts, and filter goals by category, priority, or due date. Learn more

Offline collaborative editing of decision tables

You can now export decision tables from Decision Designer and edit them directly in Microsoft Excel. Updated decision tables can be imported back into Decision Intelligence, with changes automatically reflected. This feature improves collaboration between technical and nontechnical users by using familiar tools like Excel. Learn more

Work with collaborators more easily

You can now retrieve the list of users available for collaboration on a decision automation, making it easier to add collaborators and assign roles. Learn more

Import decision services

You can now bring your existing decision services into Decision Intelligence in just a few clicks. Learn more

Pin decision automations to the Decision Intelligence home page

You can now pin up to four decision automations to your home page for quick access. Learn more

Find references to data types in the decision logic Tech preview

You can now locate where data types and attributes are used in the decision logic of decision nodes. Enabling this feature in decision service settings improves traceability and makes it easier to understand how data is used throughout your decision service. Learn more