FICO Blaze Advisor vs. IBM Operational Decision Manager

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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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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• Large customisation
• Create custom data item like variables
• Nice GUI, and user friendly

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• 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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• Slow response
• Slow Notifications
• Less documentation and support

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• Compatibility with third party software.
• Use interface can be simplified.
• Better Error handling framework.

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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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Ease of use Ease of Administration

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• Overall positive impact
• Increase the efficiency
• Increase the productivity and quality

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• 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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