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Drools vs Pega Platform

Drools
10 Ratings
Pega Platform
202 Ratings

Drools

10 Ratings
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Score 8.2 out of 100

Based on 10 reviews and ratings

Pega Platform

202 Ratings
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Score 8.3 out of 100

Based on 202 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

    Reporting & Analytics

    Drools

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    8.3

    Pega Platform

    83%
    Pega Platform ranks higher in 3/3 features
    Pega Platform ranks higher in 3/3 features

    Dashboards

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.9
    89%
    61 Ratings

    Standard reports

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.0
    80%
    61 Ratings

    Custom reports

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.0
    80%
    60 Ratings

    Process Engine

    Drools

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    8.3

    Pega Platform

    83%
    Pega Platform ranks higher in 8/8 features
    Pega Platform ranks higher in 8/8 features

    Process designer

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.5
    85%
    63 Ratings

    Process simulation

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0
    90%
    55 Ratings

    Business rules engine

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0
    90%
    63 Ratings

    SOA support

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    7.0
    70%
    49 Ratings

    Process player

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.5
    85%
    47 Ratings

    Support for modeling languages

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    5.4
    54%
    6 Ratings

    Form builder

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0
    90%
    58 Ratings

    Model execution

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.5
    95%
    54 Ratings

    Collaboration

    Drools

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    8.0

    Pega Platform

    80%
    Pega Platform ranks higher in 1/1 features
    Pega Platform ranks higher in 1/1 features

    Social collaboration tools

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.0
    80%
    49 Ratings

    Content Management Capabilties

    Drools

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    4.4

    Pega Platform

    44%
    Pega Platform ranks higher in 1/1 features
    Pega Platform ranks higher in 1/1 features

    Content management

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    4.4
    44%
    9 Ratings

    Attribute Ratings

    • Pega Platform is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

    Likelihood to Recommend

    8.0

    Drools

    80%
    3 Ratings
    8.7

    Pega Platform

    87%
    72 Ratings

    Likelihood to Renew

    Drools

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    10.0

    Pega Platform

    100%
    7 Ratings

    Usability

    Drools

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0

    Pega Platform

    90%
    1 Rating

    Support Rating

    Drools

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.7

    Pega Platform

    97%
    13 Ratings

    Online Training

    Drools

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.0

    Pega Platform

    80%
    1 Rating

    Implementation Rating

    Drools

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    10.0

    Pega Platform

    100%
    1 Rating

    Likelihood to Recommend

    Drools

    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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    Pega Platform

    Pega Platform has introduced the low code feature, using app studio seasonal and professional developer can develop application easily and quickly. The initial application can be build by Business analyst and product owner who has less knowledge of Pega Platform, further application can be enhanced/extended by professional developer. We can develop end to end application and promote to higher environment. Easily we can perform parallel development using branch.

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    Pros

    Drools

    • Writing rules with business focus
    • Rules evolution and maintenance
    • separate business logic from program code

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    Pega Platform

    • Quick development time. Much of the Pega "rules" are easy to configure and implement.
    • Visually friendly and modern. Much of the UI/UX elements in the system are continuously supported and updated, giving a nice feel to the apps.
    • Many of the configurations and rules Pega gives to the developers can also be delegated to business users. The organization and structure of the client's business can easily be adapted in the Pega platform.

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    Cons

    Drools

    • 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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    Pega Platform

    • Need more learning materials. For Beginners who have previous programming experience with another language takes more time to learn.
    • If the developer is met with an issue in pega platform , they have to rely on Pega supporting team to fix it.
    • Customization is available but is not encouraged. Pega does not support faults that occur in customized solutions.

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    Pricing Details

    Drools

    General

    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level set up fee?
    No

    Starting Price

    —

    Drools Editions & Modules

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    Additional Pricing Details
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    Pega Platform

    General

    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    —
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    —
    Entry-level set up fee?
    No

    Starting Price

    $90 Per User Per Month

    Pega Platform Editions & Modules

    Edition
    Starter$90.001
    1. Per User Per Month
    Additional Pricing Details
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    Likelihood to Renew

    Drools

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Pega Platform

    Pega Platform 10.0
    Based on 7 answers
    Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals

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    Usability

    Drools

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Pega Platform

    Pega Platform 9.0
    Based on 1 answer
    Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..

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    Support Rating

    Drools

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Pega Platform

    Pega Platform 9.7
    Based on 13 answers
    It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.

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    Online Training

    Drools

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Pega Platform

    Pega Platform 8.0
    Based on 1 answer
    The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.

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    Implementation Rating

    Drools

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Pega Platform

    Pega Platform 10.0
    Based on 1 answer
    Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement

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    Alternatives Considered

    Drools

    I did not participate in drools choice. I can only compare drools with the previous situation which was using nothing.

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    Pega Platform

    We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.

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    Return on Investment

    Drools

    • 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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    Pega Platform

    • For one of the applications we worked on, we were able to reduce the processing time on a case from 2 days to 20 minutes by utilizing Pega
    • We were able to resolve the issue of the routing of cases to users based on a specific algorithm by use of Pega
    • Pega case management feature was extensively used in one of the application to establish a parent-child relationship which was very helpful for all the business users

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