We performed a comparison between IBM Operational Decision Manager and PegaRULES based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Rules Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."ODM's most valuable features are that it's easy to define and divide business rules, and it can handle very large numbers of transactions per second."
"The most valuable features are the Decision center, a web UI that allows us to make direct edits to our policies or rules; the Rule Execution Server, which allows us to analyze the rules and performance; and Rule Designer, where you can write rules and decision tables."
"Its ability to untangle hard coded rules and put them in a more manageable structure."
"Its ability to use decision tables to codify the rules and manage them better."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The effects of allowing business users to update business rules instead of IT are business users have a closer relationship with what rules they need and are able to make those rules a lot quicker in the tools that ODM provides than if an IT person had to do it, and do it in code, requiring compiling code and deploying it."
"By using ODM, we get rules to our applications, then we get those applications to go to market a lot faster."
"The most valuable feature is the deployment part because it is very easy to deploy. Even a businessperson or someone from a non-technical background can easily deploy it and the rules will work."
"In certain circumstances, it can be fairly straightforward to execute and deploy new modifications."
"One of the key advantages of PegaRULES is its out-of-the-box capabilities, which eliminate the need to build certain functionalities from scratch. For instance, features like "get next" in process flows allow for the seamless continuation of a flow without the requirement of additional activity creation. This serves as an illustration of how existing components can be leveraged rather than starting from scratch. It provides a solid foundation, to begin with, and allows for enhancements at a higher level, making it a beneficial starting point."
"We find the product to be scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment."
"The latest releases of PegaRULES are scalable, advanced, and can be easily integrated into your environment."
"They're pretty easy to create, and they're pretty easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the product is that it's very customer-centric. It's easy to use for a customer or a user. It's also easy for someone who is developing an application. You can develop different features in just one place. You don't have to go to different places."
"The visualization of the business process and the collaboration aspects of the solution are its most valuable features."
"The only thing we have trouble with is integrating IBM ODM with the cloud. The product is on-prem, and we need to migrate the rules to the cloud. It's a hectic process."
"Get to the cloud."
"The platform is good. Its footprint is a little heavy. Other than that, the product works great."
"It hasn't totally helped our decision-making."
"Extracting specific rules could be better. We've had to do a lot of custom work on that. The testing, we've played a little bit with it, but we have our own testing methods. If it could be as simple as we have for our custom work, that would be great."
"An area for improvement is that the documentation for ODM is huge and not very clear."
"The errors I get from time to time are not easy to debug or easy to understand. They are very vague because if a XOM file is missing or there is a deserialization problem, on the client's side I only get a 500 Internal Server Error. To learn where the problem is, I have to go on the Rule Execution Server and test it myself. The deserialization issue is very vague. The error messages should be more straightforward and easy to understand."
"There is some promise of how decisions could take advantage of machine learning and artificial intelligence. That has been slow to develop. It is still not clear where the market will take it, but that is something that I am looking forward to down the road."
"The UI needs improvement."
"The solution needs to invest more in its technology. For public and private clouds, for example, the development environment is slow. Saving events should take one to two seconds, max, and because you are making changes often, the slowness cuts down on productivity because we have to wait for things to save before continuing."
"We would like to have a better ability to customize PegaRULES."
"Implementation is a challenge due to the handling of the code"
"PegaRULES need to improve its JVM. It needs to enhance the operation speed and memory size."
"I've spent some hands-on time with the platform, and you can do those things, and it is all low code, but is it as easy as they make it sound? No. That's my two cents. For example, if I want to do something, there is no way to switch from low code. I just want to do a simple If-Then-Else rule, but I have to go through their low-code tool and do dragging and dropping. I'm a development person, and in my opinion, even some business users could do this easier. There is no way to go back and forth to an editor where I can just type in an If-Then-Else rule, which would be much faster than drawing in their low-code editor. They don't support that. They lead you too much."
"Customers expect more out-of-the-box solutions."
"Containerization should be improved in relation to Pega because Camunda is deployable in the containerization deployment process."
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IBM Operational Decision Manager is ranked 3rd in Business Rules Management with 15 reviews while PegaRULES is ranked 1st in Business Rules Management with 16 reviews. IBM Operational Decision Manager is rated 8.6, while PegaRULES is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Operational Decision Manager writes "The solution provides an efficient, comprehensive way to manage polices for all the applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PegaRULES writes "Seamless flows, high level capabilities, and straightforward installation". IBM Operational Decision Manager is most compared with FICO Blaze Advisor and Progress Corticon , whereas PegaRULES is most compared with FICO Blaze Advisor and Versata BRMS. See our IBM Operational Decision Manager vs. PegaRULES report.
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