Governing changes in decision logic
Decisions can change at any time. They reflect policies, market conditions, laws and regulations, business knowledge and experience, seasonal discounts, promotions, and so on. In fact, an important value-add of using decision automation is the ability to change a decision taken at a fast pace, without any impact on the apps calling into the decision, and with little reliance on further developments.
However, changes need to be tracked. Who made the change, for what reason, with which other changes does this one need to be deployed to production, and which tests have been performed to validate the correctness of the change: those are the areas that the governance of decision models addresses.
Collaboration
Decision Designer is a web-based tool, part of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, designed for collaboration. This means that, as one user starts a new project (a container holding the various decision artifacts needed for developing...