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    Drools

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ADrools is an open source business rules management system developed by Red Hat.N/A

    FICO Blaze Advisor

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AFICO Blaze Advisor, from San Jose based FICO, is a business rules management solution.N/A
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    DroolsFICO Blaze Advisor
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    User Testimonials
    DroolsFICO Blaze Advisor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    As an open source rule engine and product suite, Drools is well suited for the small and middle scale business to manage and integrate the rules to build the rule-driven system which can process the business-critical data and events to produce the automated decision. It is better to use Drools in the well-secured environment (back-end behind the DMZ), not putting it on the customer-facing front or exposing it directly the to public where may bring direct security risk in the enterprise environment. Drools still needs a lot hardening on the security side.
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    FICO
    FICO Blaze Advisor is suitable for cases where you have to deal with rules and where you want to customise the rules based on the business need then this product is very good to use. Also it provide easy deployment so, wherever there is frequent changes in deployment then this tool is good to use since it provides the direct deployment.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Writing rules with business focus
    • Rules evolution and maintenance
    • separate business logic from program code
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    FICO
    • Large customisation
    • Create custom data item like variables
    • Nice GUI, and user friendly
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • Fusion doesn't support persistence of working memory, which brings some extra high availability risk to our business.
    • Guvnor still has a lot room to be implemented, it is not so user-friendly for non-technical people, so a lot of business users complain it is hard to master.
    • Rule execution server doesn't even have JMX implemented, hard to be monitored.
    • Drools is still lacking support for key Web services standards.
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    FICO
    • Slow response
    • Slow Notifications
    • Less documentation and support
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    I did not participate in drools choice. I can only compare drools with the previous situation which was using nothing.
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    FICO
    Overall using FICO Blaze Advisor is good experience since change in any existing things were very easy in FICO Blaze Advisor, and I was easily able to make the change and deploy the things directly so that was real quick to check the things in the production, and this is the best point about FICO Blaze Advisor.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • The IT department quickly adopted Drools as it is a very good java-based rule engine, which saves a lot of time to meet the project timeline and balanced our business requirements.
    • Recently we start considering the OpenRules, which may be more business user-friendly.
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    FICO
    • Overall positive impact
    • Increase the efficiency
    • Increase the productivity and quality
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