Empowers organizations to automate, optimize and govern repeatable business decisions.
Organizations have benefited enormously from information technology but as the business world continues to change, and it becomes harder and harder to be competitive, traditional software applications cannot deliver the flexibility and agility required to react quickly to changing environments and customer requirements. IBM Operational Decision Manager adds flexibility and performance to your business systems, so that you can respond quickly and accurately, gaining the competitive advantage.
(+) Challenges without IBM ODM
Externalizing Decisions from Applications into Business Rules
- Rules written in software code cannot be read by business people
- Hard coded rules are difficult to change
- Rules intertwined within applications cannot be reused by other systems
Externalizing Decisions from Processes into Business Rules
- Decisions are locked in processes
- Programming skills are needed to create & modify decision logic
- Speed of business change is limited by process change
- Manual intervention increases costs & reduces customer satisfaction
(+) Results with IBM ODM
(+) Agility
- Operationalize policy changes in days versus months
- Decrease cost of implementing business practices, policies & regulations
- Respond quickly to changing market conditions
(+) Efficiency and Productivity
- Improve straight-through-processing
- Involve business users for change requests with built-in governance
- Reuse decision assets across processes
(+) Decision Quality and Precision
- Implement more fine-grained, targeted decisions
- Perform what-if and impact analyses prior to deployment
- Empower business people to own, author and update decision services
(+) Consistency
- Automate and consistently enforce decision policies
- Ensure policies and associated semantics are consistent across channels
(+) Transparency, Auditability, Compliance
- Track what decisions were made and why (runtime)
- Track what policies were changed and by whom (rule management)
