IBM Operational Decision Manager is a fully featured and easy-to-use platform for capturing, automating and managing common, repeatable business decisions. It consists of two components, IBM Decision Center and IBM Decision Server. They provide the platform for managing and enforcing business rules and business activities to help you make faster decisions, improve responsiveness, minimize risks and seize opportunities.

IBM Operational Decision Manager improves operational quality and process decisions and helps determine the appropriate course of action for customers, partners and internal interactions. It develops business insights and results and helps you identify opportunities and risks. It also enables you to implement, test and deploy decision changes, understand how decisions are made, and apply them consistently in processes and practices.

IBM Decision Server combines business rules management and business event tracking technologies. It helps you flexibly create automated and intelligent responses to identify risks, help prevent fraud, create promotions, set priorities and other tasks.

IBM Decision Server provides runtime and development to automate decision management. It enables the detection of actionable business situations and control of final decisions based on the particular commitment of an interaction.

IBM Decision Server enables organizations to:

• Business network monitoring to take action based on event-driven data models.
• Process information against hundreds or even thousands of business rules to determine how to respond in both front-end and back-end systems.

IBM Decision Center provides runtime and development components to automate decision logic. It enables the detection of actionable business situations and the response of definitive decisions based on the specific context of an interaction.

IBM Decision Center provides runtime and development components to automate decision logic. It enables the detection of actionable business situations and the response of definitive decisions based on the specific context of an interaction.

IBM Decision Center:

• It enables collaboration among business users through dynamic activity streams and improves ease of use to search, view and make rule changes.
• It helps develop and manage decisions for business analysts and managers.
• It provides business rules decisions, such as transaction language rules, rule flows, and decision tables, to be written and edited using Microsoft Office.
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