Decision management is emerging as an important capability for delivering agile business solutions. Decision management is not a solution in its own right, but must be integrated into the solutions or business processes that it supports.

In this IBM® Redpapers™ publication, we describe the recommended best practices and integration concepts that use the business events, business rules, and other capabilities of IBM WebSphere® Operational Decision Management V7.5 (WebSphere ODM) to provide better decision making in those solutions and business processes.

Chapter 1. Decision management overview

Chapter 2. Development process overview

Chapter 3. Decision design

Chapter 4. Situation identification and response development

Chapter 5. Detect-Decide-Respond pattern design

Chapter 6. Business process design with rules and events

Chapter 7. Managing decision changes across rules, events, and processes