IDIOM Decision Manager

Product: the IDIOM Personal Edition

The IDIOM Self Service Model

IDIOM Personal Edition is a 'personal' version of the IDIOM Decision Manager, designed for analysts and developers who want to experience the benefits of decision driven development without needing to buy the full featured product.

IDIOM Personal allows unconstrained decision model development and includes the following features:

- decision model designer,
- formula builder,
- schema administration,
- in-line testing,
- auto design documentation (PDF format)

IDIOM Personal Edition does NOT include the following enterprise level features:

- export of decision models,
- multiple concurrent designer access to the repository,
- design change or audit logging,
- production release management for generated source code,

For these features you will need to either purchase one of the enterprise level 'IDIOM Decision Manager' editions, or contact IDIOM under the 'Technology Partner' program

IDIOM provides a substantial online and PDF manual and free access to the IDIOM best practice 'Knowledgebase' for self service education and trials.

You will need to 'get your hands dirty' with this approach, and build one or more decision models as part of your own self managed product evaluation. We suggest reading the demonstration notes and watching the video here before getting started with your first decision model. The IDIOM Decision Manager in-line debugger should be used to test any developed models to a reasonable degree of accuracy. When a decision model has been built and tested to satisfaction, it can be remotely generated as C# or Java code, and then implemented through one or more of a variety of methods, including:

- in-line method calls;
- web services;
- message queue services (eg MSMQ, MQ Series, Sonic ESB);
- dll's;
- plug-in's for a wide range of process management tools;
- and application platforms including Portrait, Talend, Flex, Domino, CA-Plex.
IDIOM supplies a range of adapters or reference code samples that can be used to implement these integration methods for free - these are available from the Customer Resources library.

Service calls will be provided free although we reserve the right to limit this facility. The IDIOM 'Knowledgebase' of best-practice tips and techniques is also freely available for you to use.