6. Design and Implement Decision Services

An organization with a decision inventory for a line of business or a related set of business processes is ready to create Decision Management Systems. Those decisions that have been prioritized for implementation represent the requirements for one or more Decision Management Systems. The characteristics and decomposition of those decisions provides a detailed specification of the decision, how it is made, its actions, and more.

At the core of these systems are Decision Services—service-oriented components that make decisions. The main step in implementing a Decision Management System is to define and build a Decision Service that delivers the selected decision as an IT component. This Decision Service ...

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