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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
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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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