Before you start

Prepare for the tutorial by reading its description, and checking the audience and prerequisites.

The tutorial is based on a fictitious online lender. The lender uses business rules to determine whether a customer is eligible for a loan. To simulate the collaborative work that takes place in the Business console and to learn about decision services and workflows in the decision governance framework, you log in as two different users:
  • Bea: A rule author who implements changes to rules, tests the results, and deploys to a nonproduction environment for quality assessment.
  • Paul: A manager who creates releases, initiates and reviews changes, and deploys the result to production.

You should already be familiar with rule projects and rule editors. If not, see Getting started with decision services.

Learning objectives

You learn how to do the following tasks:
  • Work within a decision service to edit, test, and deploy sets of rules.
  • Manage changes to rules within the releases and activities of the decision governance framework.
  • Review and approve work.

Time required

This tutorial should take approximately 40 minutes to finish. If you explore other concepts related to this tutorial, it could take longer to complete.

Audience

This tutorial is for any user who wants an introduction to decision services and the decision governance framework in the Decision Center Business console.

Prerequisites

This tutorial is meant to be done in the sample server. Contact your administrator if you do not have Loan Validation Service available in your decision services. Before you start, make sure that you start the sample server (Opening Decision Center on the sample server) and are using a supported browser.
Note: The rule project and tutorial files are in U.S English.

Best practices

This tutorial includes the following best practices for exploring decision services in a governance workflow:
  • Make your rule changes in a change activity. Example...
  • Validate your changes with tests and simulations. Example...
  • Update the status of a decision service when you finish making changes. Example...
  • Run the final tests on a decision service in a validation activity. Example...
  • Deploy a decision service only after it is fully approved. Example...