Decision Playground is an Interactive Visual Tool for Real-Time Decision Optimization. It Empowers Business Users to Explore, Compare, and Optimize Business Decisions.
Decision Playground is a powerful new interactive component of the OpenRules Decision Intelligence Platform. It enables business users to visually experiment with decision scenarios, compare multiple alternatives, and find optimal solutions—all without requiring changes to underlying decision models.
Bridging the Gap Between Models and Reality
When critical business decisions need to be made, real-time constraints and conditions often differ from what decision models can anticipate. Decision Playground addresses this challenge by allowing business specialists to add last-minute constraints and explore multiple decision alternatives at the moment decisions are needed—even when there’s no time or expertise available to update the decision model itself.
Key Capabilities
- Interactive Decision Exploration Users can visually experiment with different scenarios in real-time, instantly seeing how additional constraints and parameter changes influence decision outcomes.
- Optimization with Alternatives Users select objectives to minimize or maximize, then view optimal decisions produced by the underlying model. If the optimal solution doesn’t align with business requirements, users can explore alternative, sub-optimal decisions that may better fit specific constraints and real-world conditions.
- Decision Pools for Comparison Save and compare multiple decision candidates for various operational scenarios. Users can visually compare alternatives, sort by different KPIs, and select the decision champion that best fits the current situation—complete with explanations for each decision.
- Flexible Constraint Management Add filters and constraints on-the-fly to tune decision models to specific decisioning situations without modifying the underlying model, supporting “what-if” analysis for best- and worst-case scenarios.
Why It Matters
Decision Playground recognizes that business specialists often have a clearer understanding of real-time constraints than even the most advanced decision models can capture. By providing an intuitive interface for exploring decision alternatives under uncertainty, Decision Playground empowers users to make informed choices that balance mathematical optimality with practical business realities.
The tool supports decision-making when users allow a degree of tolerance in recommended decisions and need to evaluate potential impacts of different choices quickly.
Technical Flexibility
Decision Playground works with different underlying Constraint solvers and Linear/MIP solvers, including open-source options like Constrainer and CLP correspondingly. Users can switch between solvers without changing decision models, providing flexibility for various optimization approaches.
Availability
Decision Playground is included in the Rule Solver installation and can be launched from any Rule Solver project. Sample projects are provided to help users get started, including:
- Inside/Outside Production
- Selecting a Loan
- Website Features
- Making a Burger
- Simple Arithmetic Problem
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About OpenRules
Since 2003, OpenRules has helped organizations worldwide incorporate sophisticated business logic into decision-making applications. The OpenRules Decision Intelligence Platform seamlessly integrates Business Rules, Machine Learning, and Decision Optimization components, processing millions of daily transactions in production environments for major corporations and government agencies across finance, insurance, telecommunications, healthcare, government, and e-commerce worldwide.
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