Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review Well Suited Scenarios IBM Cloud Pak shines in scenarios where complex workflows, such as project management in web design, require automation. It's also highly effective for collaborative content creation, enabling seamless content approval. Less Appropriate Scenarios Conversely, it may be less suitable for organizations with simpler task management needs that do not fully leverage its robust capabilities. Also, companies with limited IT resources might face challenges during setup and customization.
Read full review Pros Writing rules with business focus Rules evolution and maintenance separate business logic from program code Read full review I like how this tool provides us with automation capabilities to all our business processes hence improves our productivity. Helps us to analyze complex workflows for our clients. Accelerate our growth to digital transformation. Reduce clients wait time. Hence we are able to deliver on time. Read full review Cons 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. Read full review For heavy load, the performance should be improved The integration with the messaging system is a bit tricky and hence example documentation could be provided It is a very nice and powerful tool however still not very known, marketing needs to be improved Read full review Likelihood to Renew IBM Cloud Pak provides modernization in collecting, organizing and analyzing data. This product provides to unify market leading services such as data management, DataOps, governance, business analytics and automated AI. IBM Cloud Pak is best for resource and infrustructure optimization. IBM Cloud Pak is capable to accomodate our business automation needs.
Read full review Alternatives Considered I did not participate in drools choice. I can only compare drools with the previous situation which was using nothing.
Read full review There are various products that are similar to IBM Cloud, but IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation stands out overall. IBM Cloud offers valuable features such as analytics, cognitive abilities, and data management capabilities. Additionally, it places a strong emphasis on security and compliance, with features such as role-based access control and encryption. Moreover, it allows for easy integration with other systems and platforms.
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review Quick to automate repetitive tasks and finish them with speed and accuracy hence saving time and operational cost. Bots are life saviours because they are able to learn fast without feeding any information most of the manual work is done accurately and diligently. Reduce human errors by reducing how we manually input data into all our business processes. Read full review ScreenShots