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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 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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Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Decision management for business users.
  • Business rule application development.
  • Managing Tasks and roles.
  • Compatibility with third party software.
  • Use interface can be simplified.
  • Better Error handling framework.
Dr. ROOPESH RAO | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Business decisions.
  • Business analytics.
  • Software management.
  • Event management.
  • Logical execution.
  • Execution management.
  • Complex structure.
  • Usability
  • Graphical user interface.
Balaji Venugopal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Converting business policy to business rule.
  • Intelligent and responsive automation decision.
  • Reduction of duplicated functionality.
  • 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).
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
  • Some of our needs lead to a new package for the product. It would be great if it could be changed like how the governance framework can be changed.
  • It is not really Cloud Native, and not all features and functionalities are accessible across deployment platforms.
  • There should be further support for developing models using the decision modeling notation (DMN). Businesses must be able to model their knowledge, and DMN provides a common method to do so.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Provides users ability to define business objects and generates an execution object model behind the scenes so they don't have to worry about it.
  • It provides an English like rule language to define the rules.
  • It provides a Rule designer, an eclipse based IDE for technical users to create projects to have a decision service, rules, rulesets, etc, test it and deploy it on the server. You can use it on a local server or on a server environment to the RES runtime. It provides a context map that tells you what to do next and click on the icon or link to take you there and helps you finish the task. It is intuitive and user friendly.
  • It provides a Business console that can be used by non technical users or business users to view, edit and deploy the rules on the RES. They can also create versions and save it in the decision center.
  • It provides a way for users to define vocabulary so that the rules can use a user-friendly text instead of names of entity defined in the business object model.
  • There is some confusion for users as they have many different tools and consoles to use and write/edit rules. There is the rule designer, an enterprise console, a business console, etc and there is overlapping functionality between the consoles.
  • There needs to be support added for creating models using the decision modeling notation (DMN). Businesses need to be able to represent the knowledge using a model and DMN is a standard way of representing the information.
  • Also to be able to import and export models that have been created using DMN. There are tools that companies use to create DMN models and represent the business domain and logic. This tool needs to be able to import those models and provide execution runtime for the same.
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