Learn how to create and manage business rules in the Decision Center Enterprise console and Rule Solutions for Office.
The getting started tutorial helps you to take your first steps with the Decision Center Enterprise console. It includes detailed instructions to create and manage decisions in a business environment.
The scenario of the getting started tutorial is based on the fictitious web-based application of an online lender. The application is called Miniloan. The Miniloan application aims at defining whether a customer is eligible for a loan according to several criteria such as the amount of the loan, the yearly income of the borrower, and the duration of the loan.
The project provided in this tutorial is only available in English (United States).
Prerequisites
To check that the required products, getting started projects, and the sample server have been installed, see Checking your installation.
For more information about the required products and their modules, and how to install them, see Installing Operational Decision Manager.
In this tutorial, when a URL contains the <PORT> placeholder, you must replace <PORT> with the port number. The default port number for WebSphere® Application Server is 9080 but it can be different depending on your installation.
A was.properties file is created when you start the server for the first time. To know the port number to use, open <WAS_InstallDir>/profiles/ODMSample<version>/data/was.properties, and check the value of the server.port property.
Audience
This tutorial is aimed at business users (rule authors, policy managers, business analysts).
Learning objectives
In Decision Center, you explore the rules in a project, and you check the execution flow. Then, you create action rules and decision tables. You manage changes using queries, you compare different versions of your rules, and create custom views to display only the artifacts that you are interested in.
With Rule Solutions for Office, you can edit rules in Microsoft Office documents. You use the editors integrated with Microsoft Word or Excel to edit business rules, ruleflows, and decision tables with a natural language syntax.
The following figure shows the workflow and the interaction between Decision Center, Rule Execution Server, and Rule Solutions for Office.
To perform this tutorial, you must first start the sample server and sign in to Decision Center.
Time required
This tutorial should take approximately 3 hours to complete.