Chapter 1. Introduction

Red Hat Decision Manager is an open source decision management platform that combines business rules management and complex event processing. It includes decision management and business resource optimization capabilities. With Red Hat Decision Manager, you can automate business decisions and make that logic available to the entire business.

Red Hat Decision Manager uses a centralized repository for storing all resources. This ensures consistency, transparency, and the ability to audit across the business. Business users can modify business logic and business processes without requiring assistance from IT personnel.

Red Hat Decision Manager is made up of Decision Central, Decision Server, and Red Hat Business Optimizer.

This guide explains how to install Decision Server on IBM WebSphere Application Server (IBM WebSphere).

For information about running the Decision Central standalone JAR file, see Installing Red Hat Decision Manager on premise. For information about installing Red Hat Business Optimizer, see Installing and configuring Red Hat Business Optimizer.

IBM WebSphere is a flexible and secure web application server that hosts Java-based web applications and provides Java EE-certified run time environments. IBM WebSphere 9.0 supports Java SE 8 and is fully compliant with Java EE 7 since version 8.5.5.6.