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Simplify, Accelerate, Scale Decisions on Cloud

Key Points

  • Digital leaders value rapid, agile responses to market changes, requiring expert business knowledge to be embedded in every transaction and interaction.
  • By moving decision logic to the cloud, companies—like an insurer that increased policy update frequency from quarterly to weekly—gain a competitive edge through faster packaging and pricing adjustments.
  • IBM’s Operational Decision Management on Cloud differentiates itself with three core attributes: a simple, business‑focused UI, high‑speed content creation without IT overhead, and scalable rule execution across many applications and users.
  • The platform uniquely adds governance and change‑management capabilities, allowing business users to confidently create, deploy, and manage decision rules at scale.
  • This cloud‑based solution democratizes advanced decision‑technology, making sophisticated rule‑management tools accessible not just to large enterprises but to midsize firms and even solo entrepreneurs.

Full Transcript

# Simplify, Accelerate, Scale Decisions on Cloud **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFv4_lozyc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFv4_lozyc) **Duration:** 00:02:50 ## Summary - Digital leaders value rapid, agile responses to market changes, requiring expert business knowledge to be embedded in every transaction and interaction. - By moving decision logic to the cloud, companies—like an insurer that increased policy update frequency from quarterly to weekly—gain a competitive edge through faster packaging and pricing adjustments. - IBM’s Operational Decision Management on Cloud differentiates itself with three core attributes: a simple, business‑focused UI, high‑speed content creation without IT overhead, and scalable rule execution across many applications and users. - The platform uniquely adds governance and change‑management capabilities, allowing business users to confidently create, deploy, and manage decision rules at scale. - This cloud‑based solution democratizes advanced decision‑technology, making sophisticated rule‑management tools accessible not just to large enterprises but to midsize firms and even solo entrepreneurs. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFv4_lozyc&t=0s) **Speed, Simplicity, Scale** - The speaker explains how cloud‑based operational decision platforms let businesses rapidly incorporate expert knowledge and business rules, enabling frequent policy changes and greater agility through a simple, fast, and scalable interface. ## Full Transcript
0:01digital leaders prize the ability to 0:04move quickly to seize new opportunities 0:07speed agility of / mount inside this 0:11sort of unprecedented change in a 0:12business climate it's also critical that 0:15businesses bring the expert teams at the 0:18edge of the business what that means is 0:20folks like subject matter experts and 0:22others that operate the business are 0:25involved and their expertise is captured 0:28in every business transaction and every 0:30business interaction for example an 0:32insurance company that we're working 0:34with has thousands of rules what they do 0:36is they use these policies and business 0:39rules to change the packaging and 0:42pricing to the way they present their 0:43services to the client in fact they've 0:45moved from being able to change those 0:46policies once a quarter to once a week 0:49and that's differentiating we're now 0:53steaming at a significant moment in time 0:56based on the ability of cloud to take 0:58these capabilities and not only provide 1:00them and make them available to large 1:01companies but also for mid-sized 1:04enterprises all the way down to 1:06companies of one there are three 1:07attributes that make our operational 1:09decision has been on cloud special the 1:12first is simplicity 1:13the second is speed and the third is 1:15scale from a simplicity standpoint we 1:19have a very powerful user interface 1:21that's aimed at the business that enable 1:23them to very quickly get going it 1:25enables them to focus on the things they 1:27do best which is provide that business 1:29logic in the form of policies to operate 1:31the business 1:33from a speed standpoint it is all about 1:36being able to focus on creating that 1:38content because we did IBM energy IT 1:41operations of that system for you scale 1:46is not just about being able to run 10 1:48mm of rules across dozens of 1:50applications it is also about being able 1:53to enable the business users across the 1:56business to be able to participate in 1:58the Oscar mean the deployment and the 2:00management of those rules that add 2:02agility to your business in a way that 2:05allows you to capture new opportunities 2:07our IBM operational decision manager on 2:11cloud not only has a powerful and 2:13unparalleled business user experience 2:15but it also does something that no one 2:17else in the planet does and that's 2:19provides governance and change 2:21management around your ability to create 2:23and scale business decisions I think 2:28we'll look back at the launch of our 2:29operational decision management on cloud 2:31platform as a time that was significant 2:34in decision technology it's significant 2:37because it's no longer well kept secret 2:39for large enterprises it's now a 2:41business rule system for everyone 2:46[Music]