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IBM Operational Decision Manager

What’s new in IBM ODM 8.10.1

Updated on April 5, 2019

ODM 8.10.1

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– Released on March 22, 2019

– As a IBM Continuous Delivery update package

• Also available on IBM Support Fix Central as a fixpack

– Fully compatible with ODM 8.10.0

• See also: What’s new in ODM 8.10.0

– Also available in IBM Digital Business Automation for Multicloud V18.0.2

• Public announce

• Predefined ODM Docker images based on ODM 8.10.1

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ODM 8.10.1 Update Highlights

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Operational Intelligence

ODM support in Business Automation Insights

Improved visibility and control

New features for Business Console users

Operational Intelligence with ODM support in Business Automation Insights

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IBM Automation Platform for Digital Business

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CollectScalable cloud

capability to

capture end to end

business data from

different instances

of DBA platform

components into a

data lake.

VisualizeProvides real-time visibility to

Business Managers via pre-defined

or user configured dashboards.

MeasureCorrelate and measure

data based on collected

business and operational

metrics.

Learn & Guide Enable Data Scientists to apply MLs on the

operational data lake to make

recommendations to business managers and

knowledge workers

What Business Automation Insights (BAI) allows you to do:

Operational Intelligence with Business Automation Insights

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Digital Business Automation

deployment options

We offer multiple ways to deploy the automation platform

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On PremisesDBA Enterprise

DBA Express

MulticloudDBA for Multicloud

SaaSDBA on Cloud

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IBM Business Automation Insights

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BAI is delivered in DBA for Multicloud only

MulticloudDBA for Multicloud

BAI

IBM Business Automation Insights

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Data for BAI can come from:- DBAMC supported modules- On-prems supported products

DBA for Multicloud

BAI

On Premises

ODM

BAW

ODM

BAW

BAW: Business Automation Workflow

Cloud Private

BAI architecture overview

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Business Manager

Operational Visibility-Summaries

BAI Event Processor

EmitterEvent

Streams

CustomerData Lake

Data Scientist

Learn and guide

o Summarieso Time Serieso Raw Events

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Multi-cloud deployment scenarios

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What can ODM users do with BAI ?

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Visualize, Measure

Create dashboards about your business decisions.

Learn & Guide

Data analysts can use data from the data lake to analyze decisions, or to correlate

decisions with business outcome provided by other data sources.

Example of a dashboard with business data

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Business data monitoring

Another example of dashboard, with rules and business data

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Counts of executed rules

Predefined dashboard on executed decisions

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Health monitoring: decisions executed with/without errors

Example of data analysis enabled by BAI

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Using IBM Watson Studio and the customer data lake

ODM requirements for using BAI

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– ODM emitter available through:

• Either DBAMC 18.0.2,

• or ODM 8.10.1 running on-prems with WAS Liberty (no support yet for other app servers)

– ODM emitter compatible with :

• Rule Execution Server only (Not Decision Server Insights or Decision Runner)

• Decisions based on:

– Java Object Model only (not XML binding)

– Decision engine only (not Classic Rule Engine)

– Regular decision service or decision model service only

Path to leverage BAI for an ODM user

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Upgrade toODM 8.10.1 or DBAMC 18.0.2

Update Java XOM if not Jackson compatible Configure ODM

Install BAI on ICP

Or

Install Kafka + BAIon a supported Kubernetes platform

Install BAI

Nothing to do if decision service already uses JSON as input and output.

Not supported:• Non static

nested classes, also known as inner classes

• Cyclic links between three or more classes

More info here

Use the res-setup tool to configure the emitter plugin in Rule Execution Server

Or configure ODM in DBAMC with IBACC / Helm chart

Set some properties on each ruleset

Activate emissionfor selected rulesets

ODM on-prems: Use Liberty

Improved visibility and control for Business Console users

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Selecting rule properties to display in list of rules

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Each user can select the properties to be displayed

Configurable grid columns to display rule properties,in Decision Artifacts and Queries results tabs

Security improvement: automatic logout from Business Console

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Automatic logout after a period of inactivity:

Exporting and importing test suites and simulation artifacts

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Benefits:Ensure that all artifacts created in Decision Center can be:• Included in file backups• Copied from one repository to another

Decision Center repository

export

import

Zip

Contains decision service artifacts for a branch.Now includes test suites and simulation artifacts

Configuration settings now available in the Business Console

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Global settings: Decision Service settings:

New REST APIs to access repository contents

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– Enable creation of custom reports on decision service content, to audit your repository

– For example: generate lists of the project elements in a decision service:

• Rules,

• Folders,

• Decision operations,

• Etc.

Other updates in ODM 8.10.1

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New and improved documentation

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– One Knowledge Center for ODM 8.10.x

– New sections to facilitate upgrade and migration

– Decision Center content reorganization from features to use cases:

• Comparison between Enterprise Console and Business Console

• Introduction video on the Decision Governance Framework

Easier demo with new web client for the LoanValidation sample

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http://localhost:9090/loan-server/

Platform updates in ODM 8.10.1

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– Added support for JBoss EAP 7.1

– Support for Liberty 18.0.0.4

• Version now shipped in ODM 8.10.1 as supporting program

IBM Digital Business Automation User Community

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www.ibm.com/community/automation/digital-business-automation/

Get the latest news and participate in the discussions in the Decision Automation Group

(This group replaces ODM Developer Center, which is no longer updated)

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