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IBM Operational Decision Manager

IBM Operational Decision Manager

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What is IBM Operational Decision Manager?

IBM 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,…

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IBM Operational Decision Manager and Watson Cognitive on Bluemix

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IBM Operational Decision Manager on Cloud - overview demo

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IBM Operational Decision Manager on Cloud demonstration

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Product Details

What is IBM Operational Decision Manager?

IBM 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).

ODM, available standalone and as part of IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation, helps users analyze, automate and govern rules-based business decisions. The solution can authorize a loan, decide on promotional offers or detect a cross-sell opportunity with precision and customization.

IBM Operational Decision Manager Technical Details

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Reviews and Ratings

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February 10, 2023

Empowering the business users!

Verified User
Manager in Product Management
Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Operational Decision Manager works well for empowering your business teams to establish, refine and deploy rules in a shared platform without relying on IT teams. The hosted version of IBM Operational Decision Manager offers advanced capabilities to manage complex rules and is well suited for large organizations. It also offers a cloud-based version with limited features which is well suited for smaller organizations that want to avoid investment in infrastructure.
April 21, 2022

A good software to manage complex business processes and decision making.

Dr. ROOPESH RAO | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dr. ROOPESH RAO
Head Industry Institute Initiatives/Training and placement officer
Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Education Management, 51-200 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
April 19, 2022

Meets business need - IBM Operational Decision Manager

Balaji Venugopal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Balaji Venugopal
RPA Sr Solution Architect
Cognizant (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Appropriate case: Evolving business rules for any system can be easily integrated into IBM Operational Decision Manager which can be easily tested and traced using logs. Inappropriate case: Legacy system consolidation of rule (Mainframe or As400) and standard protocol API services offers are available like (FTP, HTTP, SOAP, SMTP) and missing token or Oauth-based authentication options.
April 19, 2022

A stateless business rules management system that is easy to use and straightforward to understand

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As a component of Cloud Pak for business automation, it enables organizations to achieve maximum automation by combining it with IBM RPA as a rules engine for external applications and IBM BPM as a rules engine for organization workflows. Additionally, it can be integrated with other applications, resulting in an incredible experience that no other application can provide.
April 18, 2022

IBM ODM VS others

Mohamed Abdelwahed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mohamed Abdelwahed
Business Solutions Manager
Valleysoft | Center of Excellence (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In a loans system that was created by IBM BPM, the IBM operations decision management was the perfect solution for rules of the program's loan as it is different from program to program based on many parameters such as profession, years of experience, employment type and this effect on the rate of the loan, all this as variables can be controlled and changed by the business user using IBM ODM.
March 01, 2019

User friendly, intuitive stateless business rules management system

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
ODM is well suited wherever there is business logic involved, specifically if the logic does not have a state. If there are business rules that can be defined, the context known and returns the same decision every time the same inputs are provided (stateless), it would be a good fit.
If there are a lot of business rules, set of rules that need to be executed in an order, rules that may need to execute conditionally, etc., basically complex rules and rule flows or decision tables, this is a great product. It helps businesses to manage and make changes to those rules dynamically and quickly and easily to adapt to changes.
When it may not be suitable is if rules can't be verbalized or if there is state or decision changes based on time or location or need context to be built. In that case a complex event processing engine might be a better fit.
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