IBM Decision Manager Open Edition vs. IBM Operational Decision Manager

Overview
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IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
ScoreĀ 9.0Ā outĀ ofĀ 10
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IBM Decision Manager Open Edition (formerly Red Hat Decision Manager) is a business rules management and CEP option. Announced in 2022, the product is transitioning to IBM.N/A
IBM Operational Decision Manager
ScoreĀ 6.8Ā outĀ ofĀ 10
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IBM Operational Decision Manager is presented as a comprehensive decision automation solution that helps users discover, capture, analyze, automate and govern rules-based business decisions, on premises or on cloud. It is formerly known as the IBM Websphere Operational Decision Management, and before that as the ILOG JRules Business Rules Management System (BRMS).N/A
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Free/Freemium Version
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Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
Chose IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
Red Hat Decision Manager offers better breadth and depth of features to support complex business rules when compared to Camunda. Also it requires less customization than Camunda to build business workflows
Chose IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
IBM ODM is very expensive
IBM Operational Decision Manager
Chose IBM Operational Decision Manager
A lot of organizations will have home grown pseudo rules engines which will be specific to the application, using open source framework like Drools helps to make that better and a tool like RHDM takes it to the next level.

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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
ScoreĀ 9.0Ā outĀ ofĀ 10
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
ScoreĀ 9.0Ā outĀ ofĀ 10
Enterprises
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
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IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
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User Ratings
IBM Decision Manager Open EditionIBM Operational Decision Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
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6.4
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Likelihood to Renew
8.2
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Usability
8.7
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Support Rating
5.6
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Implementation Rating
7.0
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User Testimonials
IBM Decision Manager Open EditionIBM Operational Decision Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
Red Hat Decision Manager is well suited for developing a microservices-based application architecture where reusable components / APIs can be used across different end-user applications. It however may not be well suited for use cases where business users need low code / no-code environment to maintain business rules themselves without any developer / IT team support
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IBM
IBM Operational Decision Manager can be used to manage complex business processes with less use of IT infrastructure and more use of centralized decision making. Decision-making depends on a logical framework and the creation of commands for better futuristic decisions with less time consumption and more precision and accuracy. IBM's Operational decision manager application is well suited for such scenarios where complex processes have to be streamlined.
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Pros
IBM
  • Business rule management for filtering the candidate
  • Automate the possible decision making which reduces the time and increase the productivity
  • Whenever business rule changes based on the client requirement.
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IBM
  • Excellent stability and performance, as well as the possibility to deploy more quickly.
  • Simple but effective web-based user interface that enables us to make direct updates to our policies or rules.
  • Effective rule Execution Server, which allows us to assess the rules and their performance
  • After the rules are delivered, business users can make changes and keep them up to date without having to know a lot about technology.
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Cons
IBM
  • It should be easy to use because it needs more knowledge
  • You should be trained to your partner well
  • Well Documentations are needed
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IBM
  • Business rule application development available only in Java, .net, and Cobol.
  • Integration supports with legacy system need to be improved (Mainframe).
  • Migration to latest -version (iLog JRules to ODM).
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
Red Hat Decision Manager can be scaled and adapted to meet the automation needs of the organization as it grows by reusing the components and business rules data which provides a high ROI on the renewal costs.
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IBM
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Usability
IBM
Implementation phase is very difficult .Of course ,you need to know bunch of things about cloud,container,automatization
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Support Rating
IBM
The support for Red Hat decision Manager can be improved to be more omnichannel with better response times for the customers.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
For high volume and / or complex set of legacy business rules, plan for adequate time for data migration activities.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
If you have a low budget to invest probably JBoss BRMS is the option for you, if your budget is not restricted you'll probably like to consider Bizagi
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IBM
When compared to other vendors in the business rule management system, IBM Operational Decision Manager stands out in dimensions of rule engine capabilities, deployment flexibility, and ease of maintenance. It offers a wide spectrum of configuration options to build applications that can be used by developed by technical and non-technical/business users.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Quickly write business rules
  • Computers can take decision
  • Complex event processing
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IBM
  • It has a positive impact as it provides a great way to define business rules, execute them, update them, manage different versions of rules.
  • Depending on the complexity of the applications, you can have thousands of rules.
  • It provides a nice way to test the rules, run simulations with different scenarios, different scales of requests and verify the decisions, performance, etc., and that helps a lot.
  • Since the decisions can be exposed through REST interface, it makes it very convenient to integrate with different applications, applications using different technologies.
  • The Business console makes it easy for business users to be able to define, modify rules and not have to depend on IT to do a lot of that work. This helps in bringing the time to change and use the rules to be very short as well as lets IT do more IT related tasks and provide better value to the organization.
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