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IBM Operational Decision Manager vs. Progress Corticon Business Rules Engine

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    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

    Progress Corticon BRE

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AProgress Software, headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, offers the Progress Corticon Business Rules Engine (BRE), a business rules management option.N/A
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    IBM Operational Decision ManagerProgress Corticon BRE
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    5.3
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Operational Decision ManagerProgress Corticon BRE
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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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    Progress Software
    Suited for any place where complex business rules need to be separated for ease of flexibility.
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    Pros
    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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    Progress Software
    • Handle complex business rules.
    • Test different scenarios after changes have been made.
    • Allow for version control and auditing of queries and responses.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Compatibility with third party software.
    • Use interface can be simplified.
    • Better Error handling framework.
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    Progress Software
    • The UI could be made more appealing.
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    IBM
    Ease of use Ease of Administration
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    Progress Software
    Corticon is way easier and allows for testing.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Progress Software
    • It has definitely had a positive ROI. Instead of having developers try to figure out these complex rules and how to code them in a flexible way, we now have business analysts using Corticon.
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