A decision service manager authenticating at a managed system hosting a decision service, in case of a successful authentication, the decision service manager sending a first status request to the managed system and receiving, in response to the first status request, a first indication of a current status of the managed system and authenticating at a target managed system, in case of a successful authentication at the target managed system, the decision service manager sending a second status request to the target managed system and receiving a second indication of a current status of the target managed system, the decision service manager performing a deployment readiness check comprising comparing the first and the second indication, and if a current status of the target managed system allows the target managed system to host the decision service, automatically deploying the decision service to the target managed system.