ARMONK, N.Y., March 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced a new, experimental capability on Bluemix, IBM's
Cloud platform, which gives developers of varying skill sets
the ability to create apps that can instantly personalize a user's
experience – without the need to write complicated
code.
The new service, IBM Decision Composer, helps developers to
graphically model the data and logic which drives and shapes
decisions within an app. These models take the place of code,
allowing developers to use data to test multiple business scenarios
and their outcomes, and then deploy and automate specific decisions
directly into operations. These decisions could range from the
pricing of a product to how a customer-facing app is personalized
to each user.
For instance, if a customer is entitled to a discount based on
multiple criteria, such as status, location, age, or loyalty, this
logic can be very complicated to change or update because it is
likely embedded directly into application code. With Decision
Composer, the data and logic used to determine a discount can be
modeled and changed without involving a complex IT process, giving
developers the agility to more quickly respond to changes and to
develop much more intuitive apps.
Decision Composer is a new part of IBM's Business Rules
service on IBM Cloud, which helps developers to capture,
automate and govern frequent and repeatable business
decisions.
Building on IBM's experience in designing decision management
tools, Decision Composer features:
- An interactive and user-centric web interface to define
decision-driving data and logic.
- A cloud-based modeling application, eliminating the need for any
installation or local storage before beginning to model and test
decisions.
- A comprehensive template to bring together all elements needed to
model a decision, including data; visual diagrams to describe high
level decision structure; and business rules and decision tables
which define core parts of a decision's logic.
- The ability to test and deploy decisions on a larger scale.
Decision Composer is inspired by the Decision Model and
Notation standard (DMN), which is specifically devoted to
describing and modeling repeatable decisions.
This tool is now available as an experimental service on Bluemix
and accessible from the Business Rules service. IBM is aiming to
gather feedback from the decision modeling community around
Decision Composer, with the goal of making decision modeling as
accessible as possible.
Bluemix has rapidly grown to become one of the largest open,
public cloud deployments in the world. Based in open standards, it
features more than 150 tools and services spanning categories of
cognitive intelligence, blockchain, security, Internet of Things,
DevOps and more.
To test Decision Composer, start a Business Rules
service and click the button to launch Decision Composer, or
start using Decision Composer directly by clicking:
http://ibm.biz/DecisionComposer.
For more information, please visit ibm.com/cloud.
The media contact is:
Erin Lehr
IBM Media Relations
edlehr@us.ibm.com
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