A powerful decision management platform

Streamline decision authoring and editing, with enterprise-grade features such as a traceability, simulation, versioning and auditing. IBM ODM helps organizations build precise decisions that help organizations increase efficiency, manage compliance, and improve operational agility. ODM, available standalone and as part of IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation, helps you analyze, automate and govern rules-based business decisions. The solution can authorize a loan, decide on promotional offers or detect a cross-sell opportunity with high precision and customization. When critical decisions need to be made, IBM decisioning solutions like ODM and Automation Decision Services (ADS) become the catalysts for success. When integrated with watsonx Orchestrate’s conversational capabilities, through Cloud Pak for Business Automation in SaaS, users can more efficiently interact with the system, calling upon decision engines, and obtaining insights without the need for manual intervention.

Features

• **Simplicity and ease of management: **Take advantage of interfaces that enable you to quickly author, develop and test decisions.
• **Support for complex decisions: **Leverage Operational Decision Manager for your most demanding applications.
• **Built-in testing and simulation: **Use testing and simulation capabilities to help validate business logic against well-defined usage scenarios and key performance indicators.
• **Flexible deployment options: **Deploy on OpenShift®, Certified Kubernetes, app servers, embedded in Java code, on compute grids, z/OS or SaaS.
• **Role-based permission management: **Enable stakeholders to participate in authoring, updating, deploying and managing rules.
• **Built-in governance process: **Scale business decisions using built-in governance and change management capabilities.

Benefits

• **Improve effectiveness: **Detect and adapt quickly to market changes: adjust customer experience, update loyalty programs, or create more personalized and contextual offers. Increase decision speed and reliability.
• **Improve efficiency: **Run business operations faster, consistently and at scale. Automate approvals, process claims, onboard employees and clients faster, reduce noncompliance costs and prevent credit losses.
• **Manage compliance: **Support auditing and compliance with documented proof of how decisions were made. Change policies quickly as regulations evolve. Drive consistency and detect fraud systematically.

Editions

• **On premises: **Opt for the full-featured decision management solution, with rules-based decision services.
• **On the cloud: **Capture and manage repeatable business decisions as a hosted and fully managed solution.
• **IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation: **Automate decisions as part of a global project that includes RPA, workflow and more.