The ever popular IBM Redbooks publication Governing Operational Decisions in an Enterprise Scalable Way has been updated by a team of ODM experts.

The book focuses on decision governance and how to configure, manage, and automate it using the latest features of ODM V8.9. It’s written with several audiences in mind:

• IT project managers—understand Decision Governance and IT Governance and how ODM straddles both worlds to facilitate agility
• IT technical architects—design solutions with ODM positioned inside both the IT and business worlds
• business analysts—understand and use processes for changing business policies with Decision Center
• rule development team—structure rule projects for scalability and easy maintenance

Watch this video for a quick overview of the book in the authors’ own words.

Summary of the updates

If you’re already familiar with the book, here’s a quick summary of the updates.

New chapters:

• Chapter 2, “Decision governance for project managers” covers planning for rule governance and setting up a Center of Excellence.
• Chapter 4, “Securing Decision Center” explains how to create roles and apply users and security to Decision Center.
• Chapter 7, “Decision Governance Framework” takes a deep dive into the Decision Governance Framework and explains how to use it for both simple and complex projects.
• Chapter 9, “ODM DevOps” provides DevOps guidance on automating the build and deployment of decision services, both from IT and business-centric environments.
• Chapter 10, “ODM on Cloud” details how to govern decision services on the cloud.

Revised chapters:

• Chapter 3, “Roles and responsibilities in governing decisions” explains roles and responsibilities for ODM.
• Chapter 5, “Designing decision services” explains how to define rule projects for scalability and maintainability.
• Chapter 6, “Processes” explains the processes involved in delivering decision services, both from an IT and business perspective.
• Chapter 8, “Deployment” covers deploying decision services to the rule execution environment.
• Chapter 11, “Branching and merging” details how to use the advanced repository management features of Decision Center when the Decision Governance Framework is not used.

Other IBM Redbooks publications on ODM

Once you’ve read this one, you might like to check out other books about ODM from IBM Redbooks, which are listed in the page IBM Redbooks.