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IBM Operational Decision Management

Software for business rules

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ16928000 ↗
Source-derived summary

IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) is IBM's Business Rule Management System (BRMS). IBM ODM also incorporates IBM's implementation of business event processing (also called complex event processing) capabilities.

IBM ODM can be installed both independently and as an application running on WebSphere Application Server.

This software is currently in V8.11.0 (as of October 2022).

Business rules and events

Rules

A business rule is a statement of logic that is used for a business decision to be made. This statement of logic is generally part of a business policy. Rules processing involves a piece of software using this pre-defined rule to make a real-time decision.

Example

A policy states that a borrower's initial loan must not exceed 3 times their annual salary.

The Business Rule would read:

if Loan > (Salary * 3) then disallow.

Events

A business event is a signal or collection of signals indicating that a change in state has occurred, and consists of a small message.

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This entry incorporates text from “IBM Operational Decision Management” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.