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IBM Decision Manager Open Edition

IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
Formerly Red Hat Decision Manager

Overview

What is IBM Decision Manager Open Edition?

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.

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10 out of 10
May 20, 2022
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we use hybrid cloud solutions .We have on prem and cloud applications that being used for our customers .it benefited us about …
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Product Details

What is IBM Decision Manager Open Edition?

Fast development of rules and logic

IBM Decision Manager Open Edition (formerly Red Hat Decision Manager) is a comprehensive platform for business rules management, business resource optimization, and complex event processing (CEP). Organizations can incorporate sophisticated decision logic into line-of-business applications and quickly update underlying business rules as market conditions change.

The solution is designed to enable organizations to:

  • Deploy decision services across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
  • Improve business agility.
  • Make consistent and efficient decisions.
  • Quickly build resource optimization solutions.
  • Shorten development cycles for faster time to market.

Decision Manager includes web-based graphical tools that provide clear visibility into the rules that govern business applications. Simple metaphors, such as decision tables, scorecards, and domain-specific languages help IT and business users quickly create and change business rules.

Announced in 2022, the product is transitioning to IBM.

IBM Decision Manager Open Edition Features

  • Supported: Optimize
  • Supported: Automate
  • Supported: Integrate

IBM Decision Manager Open Edition Video

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IBM Decision Manager Open Edition Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

IBM Operational Decision Manager and Pega Platform are common alternatives for IBM Decision Manager Open Edition.

The most common users of IBM Decision Manager Open Edition are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
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We used Red Hat Decision Manager for managing complex business rules for various front office and back office applications in our organization to automate business processes. Red Hat Decision Manager serves as the single source of truth to abstract and centralize any business and decision magic logic from the underlying applications that can be reused across different experiences.
  • Managing complex business rules
  • Automate decision logic
  • Configuration options for customization
  • Interoperability and integration with other tools
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
  • Business Rules Engine
  • Microservices Architecture
  • Red Hat Decision Manager has helped reduce maintenance costs for our Business Applications
  • Red Hat Decision Manager has helped improve time to market for launching new offerings
Red Hat Decision Manager offers better breadth and depth of features to support complex business rules when compared to Camunda. Also it requires less customization than Camunda to build business workflows
550
Red Hat Decision Manager is used by IT and Business Users (Operations, Finance, Marketing, Product) to develop rules and workflows that can automate their processes and drive efficiency.
50
Skills required to maintain Red Had Decision Manager are expertise in configuring and administering process flows, Decision Tables, business rules etc. It also required experience with Software development Life cycle processes like Testing, rule simulation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
  • Automating Approvals Processes
  • Single Source of Truth for Business Rules and Logic
  • Developing business workflows
  • Developing Framework for Rules Driven Credit Management Decisions
  • Compute discount eligibility for customers
  • Manage Product Configurations rules for Building Quotes
  • Pricing rules to compute accurate invoices
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.
Yes
Red Hat replaced a home grown legacy application which monolithic and not scalable for our business growth.
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Prior Experience with the Product
Red Hat Decision Manager provides diverse options and features to configure workflows for different use cases and business functions. Also it can be administered by business users for lower complexity rules which provides a quicker turnaround time to launch new business capabilities without high development costs.
I would have also evaluated the quality of service and support for the product to better understand what SLAs we can expect for our service requests.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
Leverage product support documentation and training material to provide both offline and live in person training workshops
  • Migrating data from legacy rules engine
  • Rolling out to users with local language interface
For high volume and / or complex set of legacy business rules, plan for adequate time for data migration activities.
The support for Red Hat decision Manager can be improved to be more omnichannel with better response times for the customers.
We did not purchase premium support because we did not see value in the cost-benefit analysis for it
Yes
It was resolved but required back and forth several times
In one case, Red Hat provided quick resolution to a production support issue which was impacting our business metrics.
Red Hat provides configurable rules and workflow interface that be used by Non-technical users like Operations, Finance etc to develop and automate their operational processes.
  • Decision Engine
  • Authoring Rules
  • Configuring Decision Server
No
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