Managing changes
The Business console comes with features for managing changes to decision services.
- Decision services
A decision service contains one or more rule projects. Each rule project contains action rules and decision tables that you update directly. You can easily move among the projects to make changes, and deploy the decision service to a test or production environment. - Branches
Decision Center enables branching so that you can manage the evolution of projects over time. - Change management
In Decision Center, you can manage changes to rules over time through the creation and management of branches. The recommended way of managing changes is through releases and activities within a decision service. - Governance principles
The governance aspects of Decision Center are based on the states of releases and activities, and on the governance roles of participants who work on these releases and activities. - Decision operations
The decision operation defines which rules from a given branch are part of the ruleset. You choose which decision operation to use when creating a test suite, simulation, or deployment configuration. - Linked projects
When a decision service is published to Decision Center, it can contain linked (or dependent) projects. - Rule properties
Properties associate additional information with a project element, including the development status, storage location, and user group. - Snapshots
Snapshots capture the state of a branch at a specific moment in time.
Parent topic: Governing rules with the Business console