Likelihood to Recommend 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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Read full review Oracle BPM is well suited to organizations and environments that have a good understanding of their business processes and organizational structures. Trying to introduce a tool such as Oracle BPM into the organization without a good grasp on how the business operates is a recipe for disaster as the implementation will uncover all of the dirty secrets of an organizations business processes and bring them to light. BPM is not to be utilized for smaller service orchestrations or technical service implementations, these should be handled by the Oracle SOA Suite using the BPEL process manager, leaving BPM to handle the organizational business processes, referring to and including lower level services and BPEL processes as needed.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review Oracle BPM [Suite] can support unlimited number of cases. No limitations in cases raised. Oracle Weblogic can handle multiple traffic. [It] can handle lots of heavy load[s]. Oracle BPM has extensive integration with database[s]. Huge number[s] of customization can be created. Read full review Cons Business rule application development available only in Java, .net, and Cobol. Integration supports with legacy system need to be improved (Mainframe). Migration to latest -version (iLog JRules to ODM). Read full review Oracle BPM is left behind by other tools more modern in terms of user experience, usability and ability to integrate with everything else. To really harvest the potential of Oracle BPM you need to do it in JDeveloper and with ADF. This restricts its usage to very technical people. The administration of the Oracle BPM tools has really put a burden on our team. It is running on Weblogic and we experience issues very often either with performance or with a bad configuration of the system. As with all Oracle products, the price can be an issue for smaller shops. Read full review Likelihood to Renew In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain.
Read full review Usability Not easy to debug errors.
Read full review Implementation Rating Overall satisfactory
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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 applications that can be used by developed by technical and non-technical/business users.
Read full review We evaluated Bonita and found that it might fit a smaller-sized company better; we found that Oracle
BPM Suite scaled much more evenly. We almost went with one of the competitors, but in the end chose Oracle
BPM Suite after we factored in the cost of VMware licensing. There are literally tons of analytics on the back end which are great for upper management, but not so much for average users, but this fits our business model quite well.
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review You'll most certainly need a deep dive and extensive training before your users can even think of using the product and they are very expensive. Lack of documentation makes it very difficult to manage the application if any error is encountered which will result in you ending up hiring a dedicated person to look into the application once it's deployed. For a very large org., if properly implemented and used, it can help identify the cost-intensive and inefficient processes. Read full review ScreenShots