Training: Public Courses

Blaze Advisor Fundamentals

Applicable Version: 6.5
Delivery: Classroom. The course consists of a combination of lecture, hands-on labs and group discussions.
Location: San Diego, CA / San Rafael, CA / New York, NY / London, UK / Singapore

Duration: 4 Days
Price: $3200 USD per person

Audience: Rule writers and developers responsible for creating and maintaining rule projects in the Builder IDE.
Prerequisites: None
Required Skills: Some Java programming background and familiarity with object oriented concepts is a must.

Course Description:
This class provides students with a solid foundation for developing their first Blaze Advisor™ system enabled application. Included within this class are sections devoted to rule writing, rule authoring, and rule deployment. Students will write rules within the Integrated Development Environment, create easy-to-use templates that allow non-technical business users to create new, or modify existing rules. And finally, the students will have an introductory lesson on deploying the rule project as a rule service.

Topics:

  • Blaze Advisor overview
  • Business rule repository and repository best practices
  • Business object model
  • Rule Flow
  • Rules and Rulesets
    • Introduction to rule writing
    • Advanced rule writing 1 – quantified conditions
    • Advanced rule writing 11 – patterns
    • Best practices
  • Testing
    • BrUnit Test
    • Verification
  • Decision metaphors
    • Decision table
    • Decision tree
    • Score model
  • Rule engine modes
  • Functions
  • Debugging and performance tracking
  • Introduction to rule maintenance application
  • Management properties and queries and filters
  • Introduction to Lifecycle Management
  • XML and JDBC business object models
  • Introduction to Advisor rule service deployment
  • PMML Import

Schedule:
For a complete schedule of dates and locations, please refer to the Event Calendar.

Fees and Other Information:
Cost is $3,150 for a 4-day course.

For more information or to register, please contact us.