Collaborating on decision services

Decision Intelligence Client Managed Software provides enhanced collaboration workflows and greater control over decision files.

Decision Intelligence allows different users to collaborate on decisions across users, departments, and disciplines.

Collaboration between business users

Collaboration between business users is essential to the success of decision services. In Decision Designer, they can work together on a decision service by sharing and managing decisions in the same repository. Collaborators work locally in the application and can decide when to share their changes to make them available to others.

Working in a shared space not only makes it easier to track changes made by other users, it also simplifies the management of decision automation versions and the resolution of conflicts that are caused by competing changes to a file.

Collaboration between business users and IT users

Decision Intelligence relies on close collaboration between business users and IT users to simplify the implementation of decisions and reduce time to deployment.

Decision development and deployment activities are distributed between these two roles, as shown in the following table.

Table 1. User roles for the development of decision automations
Role	Activities	Description
Business user	Model Author Run Share Load	Business users have the following responsibilities: Set up the data model that is used as the rules vocabulary. Model decisions and author the business logic. Embed machine learning models. Run decisions to ensure that they yield the expected results. Share changes to make their work available to collaborators. Load changes made by collaborators.
IT user	Install Configure Manage	IT users have the following responsibilities: Install and configure the environment for Decision Intelligence. Configure credentials. Configure and manage a CI/CD stack to automate builds and deployments. Set up the build environment. Manage user access to decision automations.