We performed a comparison between FICO Blaze Advisor and IBM Operational Decision Manager 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."The most valuable feature is the IDE."
"The solution is very stable."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it has a fast engine for decisioning."
"FICO Blaze Advisor's most valuable features are the analytics, the code change is not required, and even a business analyst can do that change in the rules when we set it up."
"The rules management application is the best feature because BAs or even, perhaps, a businessperson, can directly create rules, change rules, and deploy them to production directly."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the algorithm they use in the retail version. The execution there is very optimized - so even though we have a huge service with huge counter rules, we still get the results in milliseconds. That is something amazing I found about this tool."
"The solution is customizable, so you can create your own data items and variables to suit your needs."
"Its ability to untangle hard coded rules and put them in a more manageable structure."
"By using ODM, we get rules to our applications, then we get those applications to go to market a lot faster."
"With ODM as a centralized rules engine, it's easy to track. You can version the rules in the ODM engine itself."
"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."
"ODM has probably been one of the more stable IBM products I have used."
"So far, the usability is great. It's also easy to set up."
"Its ability to use decision tables to codify the rules and manage them better."
"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."
"The initial setup of FICO Blaze Advisor was somewhat complex. The implementation took approximately three to four months. However, I left halfway through the process, I am not sure of the exact timeframe."
"Lacks notifications when code changes have been made."
"I would like to see more help on the internet and more training over the internet. They only have a few blogs there, so that should be increased."
"FICO needs to provide a better user experience and user interface."
"More online support such as a knowledge base should be available."
"FICO Blaze Advisor is still missing things for maintaining the version of something. For example, we have gates for programming, for storing, or scripts. In there, one developer can prepare a file or a piece of code or something, and another developer can work on the same code or on the same text file or something, and you can manage it. This is missing in FICO Blaze Advisor."
"The developer's tools on their optimized version should be a little bit more user friendly. Additionally, it really doesn't pick up the actual exception or error of what the developers are getting."
"I think there should be a facility for business to really create rules from scratch. The only part for IT should be to make sure the platform is stable, the technology platform, but everything else, the business should be able to create those rules."
"The platform is good. Its footprint is a little heavy. Other than that, the product works great."
"ODM could be improved with better integration with other platforms."
"If merging could be just like SVN, that would help. It should be a lot simpler. That's the only thing I don't like about ODM, merging from our local computer up to the Decision Server. I feel like it could be a lot easier."
"An area for improvement is that the documentation for ODM is huge and not very clear."
"I think it's stable, but if they could beef it up a little bit for bigger businesses, that'd be great, because we have so much in there. We have products that we have to split up because they are too big for it to handle sometimes. But that's just in development, within ODM. Again, processing has been fine, but I wish things were a little bit beefier."
"I would like to have integration of the user interfaces, and they are putting them together in the next version of the solution."
"It hasn't totally helped our decision-making."
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FICO Blaze Advisor is ranked 2nd in Business Rules Management with 8 reviews while IBM Operational Decision Manager is ranked 3rd in Business Rules Management with 15 reviews. FICO Blaze Advisor is rated 8.2, while IBM Operational Decision Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of FICO Blaze Advisor writes "The solution is stable and has the ability to extend the built-in logic, but is difficult to deploy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Operational Decision Manager writes "The solution provides an efficient, comprehensive way to manage polices for all the applications". FICO Blaze Advisor is most compared with PegaRULES and Versata BRMS, whereas IBM Operational Decision Manager is most compared with PegaRULES, Progress Corticon and Versata BRMS. See our FICO Blaze Advisor vs. IBM Operational Decision Manager report.
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