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."It reduces operating costs because you are taking some of this work out of the high cost IT people, freeing them up to work on new initiatives and getting them out of maintenance mode. Now, the business people are the ones making business decisions on what needs to change. They are hands on making these changes."
"I like the fact that I don't have to deal with business rules, and then our business partners deal with it. I'm a developer, so I don't have to deal with that kind of stuff. I just make the code, then our business people take care of the business side. It's a great split."
"By using ODM, we get rules to our applications, then we get those applications to go to market a lot faster."
"The solution has reduced the backlog for IT."
"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."
"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 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."
"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 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."
"Case Management is the most valuable feature of PegaRULES, which is not found in other BPM tools."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment."
"It's not too expensive."
"getNext removes some of the managements overheads as well as inbuilt reporting."
"We find the product to be scalable."
"The new PEGA underwriting platform replaced the former underwriting system and helped to integrate other legacy systems and functionalities in one application. It also helped to save licence costs for other legacy systems."
"ODM could be improved with better integration with other platforms."
"One area for improvement is master data integration. That should be more fluid. The others are hierarchical drop-down lists, and hierarchical master data."
"I would like to have integration of the user interfaces, and they are putting them together in the next version of the solution."
"Get to the cloud."
"It hasn't totally helped our decision-making."
"The platform is good. Its footprint is a little heavy. Other than that, the product works great."
"An area for improvement is that the documentation for ODM is huge and not very clear."
"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."
"What PegaRULES should work on is the integration aspect. I can integrate it with other platforms, but that can take time. It would be good if integration could be automated or if the tool had more out-of-the-box integration features."
"The UI has always been the weakest part."
"The usability of the solution for developers is sometimes difficult to work with because instead of fixing the existing bugs in the previous version, there is always a rush to push out a new version leaving the bugs in the old versions unresolved."
"PegaRULES need to improve its JVM. It needs to enhance the operation speed and memory size."
"The UI needs reworking."
"PEGA claims that they provide a LOW-CODE-PLATFORM which is easy to use - even for "citizen developers" (i.e. business employees). If you really want to use all the features out of this platform, you definitely need a lot of experience and a lot of training."
"The UI needs improvement."
"Customers expect more out-of-the-box solutions."
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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, Progress Corticon and Versata BRMS, 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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