How to Model Decisions in Oracle Integration?

In Oracle Integration, you can model decisions in two ways: within a project or externally.

Prerequisites

To use decisions in Oracle Integration, you must enable Process Automation for your Oracle Integration instance. Additionally, you must assign the predefined, Process Automation roles (namely, ServiceDeveloper or ServiceAdministrator) to the required users or groups so that they can access the Decision feature on your instance. For detailed instructions, see Enable Process Automation with Oracle Integration 3 in Administering Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Process Automation.

Ways to Use Decisions

After completing the prerequisites, you can model decisions in Oracle Integration within these two contexts:

  • Projects: You can model decisions in the context of projects using the Decision feature. A project serves as the central hub for all your automation work, including designing decisions and integrations. Each project targets a specific business objective. It offers convenient deployment and unified observability, facilitating teamwork in building, deploying, and monitoring integrations and decisions. To learn more about projects, see Get Started with Projects in Using Integrations in Oracle Integration 3.

    Use project-based decisions when calling decisions from an integration or external client application. This guide focuses on how to model decisions in projects. See Design Decision Models.

  • Process: You can create decision applications in Process. The Process feature in Oracle Integration enables you to rapidly design, automate, and manage business processes in the cloud.

    Use decision applications when calling decisions from a process application. To create decision applications, see Model Decisions in Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Process Automation.