IBM Decision Manager Open Edition vs. Pega Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
IBM 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
Pega Platform
Score 5.9 out of 10
N/A
Pega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.
$35
per month per user* (or $0.45 per case**)
Pricing
IBM Decision Manager Open EditionPega Platform
Editions & Modules
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Low-code Factory Edition
$35
per month per user* (or $0.45 per case**)
Standard Edition
$90
per month per user* (or $0.80 per case**)
Enterprise Edition
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Decision Manager Open EditionPega Platform
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details*500 named user minimum. Additional users available in blocks of 100. Billed annually. Based on a 3-year term. **350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.
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IBM Decision Manager Open EditionPega Platform
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Features
IBM Decision Manager Open EditionPega Platform
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
8.7
62 Ratings
7% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings9.061 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.661 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings8.660 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
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Ratings
Pega Platform
8.7
64 Ratings
3% above category average
Process designer00 Ratings9.463 Ratings
Process simulation00 Ratings9.655 Ratings
Business rules engine00 Ratings9.663 Ratings
SOA support00 Ratings7.049 Ratings
Process player00 Ratings9.447 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings5.46 Ratings
Form builder00 Ratings9.658 Ratings
Model execution00 Ratings9.854 Ratings
Collaboration
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IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
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Ratings
Pega Platform
8.0
49 Ratings
2% below category average
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings8.049 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
4.4
9 Ratings
60% below category average
Content management00 Ratings4.49 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Decision Manager Open EditionPega Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(5 ratings)
4.4
(72 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.6
(2 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Decision Manager Open EditionPega Platform
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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Pegasystems
Pega Platform has introduced the low code feature, using app studio seasonal and professional developer can develop application easily and quickly. The initial application can be build by Business analyst and product owner who has less knowledge of Pega Platform, further application can be enhanced/extended by professional developer. We can develop end to end application and promote to higher environment. Easily we can perform parallel development using branch.
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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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Pegasystems
  • Quick development time. Much of the Pega "rules" are easy to configure and implement.
  • Visually friendly and modern. Much of the UI/UX elements in the system are continuously supported and updated, giving a nice feel to the apps.
  • Many of the configurations and rules Pega gives to the developers can also be delegated to business users. The organization and structure of the client's business can easily be adapted in the Pega platform.
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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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Pegasystems
  • Need more learning materials. For Beginners who have previous programming experience with another language takes more time to learn.
  • If the developer is met with an issue in pega platform , they have to rely on Pega supporting team to fix it.
  • Customization is available but is not encouraged. Pega does not support faults that occur in customized solutions.
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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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Pegasystems
Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals
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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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Pegasystems
Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..
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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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Pegasystems
It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.
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Online Training
IBM
No answers on this topic
Pegasystems
The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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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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Pegasystems
Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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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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Pegasystems
We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Quickly write business rules
  • Computers can take decision
  • Complex event processing
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Pegasystems
  • For one of the applications we worked on, we were able to reduce the processing time on a case from 2 days to 20 minutes by utilizing Pega
  • We were able to resolve the issue of the routing of cases to users based on a specific algorithm by use of Pega
  • Pega case management feature was extensively used in one of the application to establish a parent-child relationship which was very helpful for all the business users
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