Decision Management
Decision Management is a business discipline and methodology that focuses on automating, managing, and improving business decisions using technology. It involves defining, modeling, executing, monitoring, and optimizing decisions to enhance operational efficiency, consistency, and agility. This approach often leverages rules engines, decision models, and analytics to separate decision logic from application code.
Developers should learn Decision Management when building systems that require complex, frequently changing business rules, such as in finance (loan approvals), insurance (claims processing), or e-commerce (pricing strategies). It enables faster updates to decision logic without code changes, improves compliance through transparent rule management, and supports data-driven optimizations using analytics and machine learning.