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Chapter 1. About Red Hat Decision Manager for Oracle WebLogic Server

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.

  • Decision Central is the graphical user interface where you create and manage business rules.
  • Decision Server is the server where the rules and other artifacts are stored. Decision Server is used to instantiate and execute rules and solve planning problems.
  • Red Hat Business Optimizer is a lightweight, embeddable planning engine that optimizes planning problems.

This guide explains how to install Decision Server on a full profile version of Oracle WebLogic Server.

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.