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    IBM Decision Manager Open Edition

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Decision Manager Open Edition (formerly Red Hat Decision Manager) is a business rules management and CEP option. Announced in 2022, the product is transitioning to IBM.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
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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    IBM Decision Manager Open EditionIBM Operational Decision Manager
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
    Red Hat Decision Manager offers better breadth and depth of features to support complex business rules when compared to Camunda. Also it requires less customization than Camunda to build business workflows
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    IBM ODM is very expensive
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    IBM
    Chose IBM Operational Decision Manager
    A lot of organizations will have home grown pseudo rules engines which will be specific to the application, using open source framework like Drools helps to make that better and a tool like RHDM takes it to the next level.

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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    IBM Decision Manager Open EditionIBM Operational Decision Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (5 ratings)
    5.3
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
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    Usability
    8.9
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    Support Rating
    5.2
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    Implementation Rating
    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Decision Manager Open EditionIBM Operational Decision Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Red Hat Decision Manager is well suited for developing a microservices-based application architecture where reusable components / APIs can be used across different end-user applications. It however may not be well suited for use cases where business users need low code / no-code environment to maintain business rules themselves without any developer / IT team support
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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
    IBM
    • Business rule management for filtering the candidate
    • Automate the possible decision making which reduces the time and increase the productivity
    • Whenever business rule changes based on the client requirement.
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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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    Cons
    IBM
    • It should be easy to use because it needs more knowledge
    • You should be trained to your partner well
    • Well Documentations are needed
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    IBM
    • Compatibility with third party software.
    • Use interface can be simplified.
    • Better Error handling framework.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    Red Hat Decision Manager can be scaled and adapted to meet the automation needs of the organization as it grows by reusing the components and business rules data which provides a high ROI on the renewal costs.
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    Usability
    IBM
    Implementation phase is very difficult .Of course ,you need to know bunch of things about cloud,container,automatization
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    The support for Red Hat decision Manager can be improved to be more omnichannel with better response times for the customers.
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    For high volume and / or complex set of legacy business rules, plan for adequate time for data migration activities.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    If you have a low budget to invest probably JBoss BRMS is the option for you, if your budget is not restricted you'll probably like to consider Bizagi
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    IBM
    Ease of use Ease of Administration
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Quickly write business rules
    • Computers can take decision
    • Complex event processing
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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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