Kursbeskrivning: Capturing and Authoring Business Rules in IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS V7.1

NOTE: THIS IS AN ONLINE SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THIS COURSE.

Self-paced virtual courses provide the same deep technical content as our classroom courses, but allow you to learn on your own schedule. You can stop and start a Self-Paced Virtual class as needed during the 60-day access period.

There is no live instructor for this course, so it may not be appropriate for students who require the guidance of a live instructor. In such cases, students should consider the alternative versions of this course:

• Classroom delivery: Capturing and Authoring Business Rules in IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS V7.1 (WB308)
• Instructor-led online delivery: Capturing and Authoring Business Rules in IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS V7.1 (VB308)

Course Overview:

This 5-day instructor-led course introduces business analysts to IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules Business Rule Management System (BRMS), and teaches the concepts and skills necessary to capture, author, validate, and manage business rules using IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS V7.1.

Through instructor-led presentations, product demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises, students learn the core features of WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS V7.1, and how to work collaboratively with business policy experts and development teams. Students receive intensive training in modeling business rule vocabulary, rule discovery, and rule authoring. A realistic case study is used throughout the course to demonstrate the principles and best practices for discovering, analyzing, and authoring business rules.

The course begins with an overview of JRules BRMS and the modeling concepts related to business rule applications. Students work with Unified Modeling Notation (UML) to document use cases and draw class diagrams. Students also work with real-life business models, use cases, and business policies during the rule discovery and analysis labs.

After learning how to transform business policy into rules, students get an in-depth look at rule authoring using Rule Team Server. Some rule authoring exercises are also performed in Rule Studio. Students work with rules that are based on an actual business model, enabling them to experience some of the questions and issues that arise when users author rules that reflect complex business decisions and models. Students also closely examine the business case study and its underlying business object model (BOM) to understand how the BOM is reflected in the Rule Team Server user interface. The rule authoring exercises build upon each other and demonstrate how the BOM and user interface relate to one another when rules are authored.

Hands-on exercises with Decision Validation Services enable students to run tests and validate rule changes directly in Rule Team Server. Students use the Rule Team Server supporting features that simplify rule maintenance, including project versioning, baselines, project analysis, reports, and permission management for sharing rules between multiple users. They also learn how to identify governance issues and use JRules BRMS features to support rule governance.

Online Enrollment:

THIS IS A SELF-PACED VIRTUAL CLASS.  ONCE YOU REGISTER, YOU HAVE 60 DAYS TO COMPLETE THE COURSE.

Before you enroll, review the system requirements listed below to ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for this course.

Within 48 hours of enrolling in the course, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing your online link, your ID and password, and additional instructions for starting the course.

Start the course at any time. Once you start the course, you have 60 days to complete it. You are billed for the course when you submit the enrollment form.

ONCE YOU ARE ENROLLED IN THIS COURSE, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CANCEL YOUR ENROLLMENT.

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This course is designed for business analysts.

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Students should have a basic understanding of business models, and experience in identifying, defining, and testing business policies and rules.

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• Describe the process of building a business rule application with JRules BRMS, including the collaboration that is required between the business and development teams
• Identify the key user roles involved in a business rule project, and the tasks associated with each role
• Define and implement a business object model
• Turn business policies into rules
• Create and edit business rules in Rule Team Server and Rule Studio
• Define rule-specific variables to use in other parts of a rule
• Develop appropriate condition and action statements when writing rules
• Use Business Action Language (BAL) appropriately in various parts of rules
• Use the vocabulary and business terms associated with the underlying business object model (BOM) when writing rules
• Create and edit decision tables in Rule Team Server
• Use the query features to locate, analyze, and change rules
• Use Decision Validation Services to run tests and simulations in Rule Team Server
• Use various Rule Team Server features that support rule management, such as versioning, baselines, project analysis, and reporting
• Explain governance issues and identify JRules BRMS features that support rule governance

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• Course introduction
• Introducing business rules
• Introducing JRules BRMS
• Modeling for business rules
• Exercise: Building the model on paper
• Exercise: Implementing the model
• Discovering and analyzing rules
• Understanding rule projects
• Working with the BOM
• Introducing rule authoring
• Getting comfortable with Rule Team Server
• Working with conditions in rules
• Working with definitions in rules
• Writing complete rules
• Authoring decision tables and trees
• Authoring rules: putting it all together (optional)
• Queries and checks
• Running tests and simulations with Decision Validation Services
• Authoring rules in Rule Studio
• Introducing Rule Team Server management features (optional)
• Introducing rule governance (optional)
• Course summary

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System requirements:

After you enroll in this course, you will be directed to a link to help you prepare your system to access the course.

The computer you use to access the labs should meet the following requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher
• Minimum 512 MB of memory
• Microsoft Internet Explorer V7 or higher, or Mozilla Firefox V3 or higher
• Citrix ICA Client installed
• Access to the Internet

If you are running Windows 2000, ensure that your Internet Explorer uses 128-bit encryption. You can verify this by opening Internet Explorer and selecting Help ) About Internet Explorer. If 128-bit is not listed, download and install the code from Microsoft.

The following network configurations will not work with these labs:

• Dialup connections
• Proxy Automatic Configuration (PAC) scripts loaded on the local machine (using file:// under Use automatic configuration script in Internet Explorer's Local Area Network (LAN) Settings); use a PAC script on a Web server (using http://) instead
• Web Proxy Auto Discovery (WPAD) only configurations; contact your location's network administrator about alternative configurations

The following configurations may or may not work with these labs, but are not supported:

• Citrix Clients under the following operating systems:
  • Windows 95
  • Linux
  • UNIX
  • Macintosh

• Web browsers other than Internet Explorer V7 or higher and Firefox V3 or higher

For information on other related WebSphere courses, visit the WebSphere Education Training Paths website:

http://www.ibm.com/software/websphere/education/paths/

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