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    Higson

    Score5.1 out of 10
    N/AHigson, formerly Hyperon is a tool for managing business rules: the instructions that tell an enterprise software how a company runs, like which customers are eligible for which products, or how to dynamically price services in response to changing conditions. Higson aims to make it easy for line managers to fine-tune these rules in real-time, responding to a rapidly changing operating environment without needing to wait for changes in the software’s code. The vendor describes…N/A

    IBM Operational Decision Manager

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM 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 Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFor pricing contact Higson Sales. They also have a partnership program for software companies.—
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    HigsonIBM Operational Decision Manager
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    Chose IBM Operational Decision Manager
    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 …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    HigsonIBM Operational Decision Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.0
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    HigsonIBM Operational Decision Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Decerto
    Hyperon is less appropriate in smaller projects that do not contain a lot of business logic. However, if there are a lot of business rules to manage, many things that might be frequently changed, then Hyperon is a good tool to address it.
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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
    Decerto
    • Separation of business logic from the app's code
    • Decision table performance
    • Good GUI
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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
    Decerto
    • Pretty high entry threshold
    • A few bugs in GUI
    • UX might be better in some places
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    IBM
    • Compatibility with third party software.
    • Use interface can be simplified.
    • Better Error handling framework.
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    Usability
    Decerto
    It's a very good tool to manage business rules. There are certain GUI bugs and a code boilerplate, but overall it does its job really well.
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    Support Rating
    Decerto
    There is documentation on the site to help learn about the tool. There is also an email to ask for help or any other questions. The team responds quickly with a full answer.
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    IBM
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    Alternatives Considered
    Decerto
    Hyperon has got far better performance. It also has far better GUI to manage business rules. On the other hand, Drools has a bigger community to help you with your problems.
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    IBM
    Ease of use Ease of Administration
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    Return on Investment
    Decerto
    • Shorter time to market with new features
    • Business users might change things without the help of developers
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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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