IBM Operational Decision Manager vs. InRule

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.

Incentivized

With InRule, we are expecting to be able to move business logic out of the developer domain and back into the business domain. Business logic is currently captured in UI (data validation) and middleware layers. These are areas in any application where leveraging InRule's capabilities allow for changes in business logic to be made with little or no IT involvement.

• 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.

Incentivized

• It is easy to tweak business rule parameters.
• Create new logic with low barriers.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• Needs more debugging capabilities.

InRule's Support Portal provides a "one stop shop" for submitting support questions, accessing training information, managing licenses, and getting updates on InRule's roadmap.

Ease of use Ease of Administration

Incentivized

InRule offers a more organized software design, a well-structured framework in design, and is easier for new users to start contributing given documentation. Drools is spreadsheet-based and lacking the capability to do really advanced pseudo-programming.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• It is always reliable and efficient.
• Has won customers over.