You're reading from Intelligent Automation with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation A practical guide to automating enterprise business workflows to deliver intelligent solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801814775

Length 450 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

IBM Automation

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (5):

Suzette Samoojh

Guilhem Molines

Stephen Kinder

Allen Chan

Kevin Trinh

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Business Automation and Cloud Pak Overview

2. Chapter 1: What Is Cloud Pak for Business Automation? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: RPA, Workflow, Decisions, and Business Applications

4. Chapter 3: Process Discovery and Process Mining

5. Chapter 4: Content Management and Document Processing

6. Part 2: Use Cases and Best Practices

7. Chapter 5: Task Automation with RPA

8. Chapter 6: Chatbot with RPA

9. Chapter 7: Workflow for Process Automation

10. Chapter 8: Automating Decisions to Speed Up Your Processes

11. Chapter 9: Manage Documents with Content Management

12. Chapter 10: Extract Meanings with Document Processing

13. Chapter 11: Engaging Business Users with Business Applications

14. Chapter 12: Workforce Insights

15. Part 3: Deployment Considerations

16. Chapter 13: On-Premises and On-Cloud Deployments

17. Chapter 14: Deployment Topologies, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery

18. Chapter 15: Automating Your Operations and Other Considerations

19. Index

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In general, decisions are the results of the rules and policies made as part of your day-to-day business operations. In decision automation, the goal is to provide a system where those rules and policies can be modeled, managed, executed, and monitored. Within IBM CP4BA, we have two related decision management platforms targeting different experiences – IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) and IBM Automation Decision Services (ADS). While both systems can be used for decision management, IBM ODM is more focused on enterprise-wide rules management and is more geared toward developers. On the other hand, IBM ADS is designed from the beginning to support a low-code/no-code experience to build enterprise decisions and is part of Business Automation Studio. In this book, we will focus more on IBM ADS.

In ADS, we provide a low-code design experience where automation developers can express the decisions based on the Decision Model & Notation (DMN), as defined by...