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."With ODM as a centralized rules engine, it's easy to track. You can version the rules in the ODM engine itself."
"The business owns the rules and they're taken away from IT, so business doesn't need to ask IT to implement them, and IT doesn't need to implement them. So the business owns their decisions and their rules, and therefore, finally, they take proper ownership, and model and maintain them properly."
"Its ability to untangle hard coded rules and put them in a more manageable structure."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's easy to build, easy to adopt for the business. Business can change those rules. I think IBM has done a good job in re-architecting the product with Decision Center as its centralized view, where the business can make changes to the rules dynamically."
"The solution has reduced the backlog for IT."
"It has benefited our organization by having less coding changes. Thus, we save time and don't have to hire as many people."
"ODM provides an efficient, comprehensive way to manage all the applications. Regardless of the BPM tool we are using, we choose ODM because it's flexible."
"Case Management is the most valuable feature of PegaRULES, which is not found in other BPM tools."
"The visualization of the business process and the collaboration aspects of the solution are its most valuable features."
"The latest releases of PegaRULES are scalable, advanced, and can be easily integrated into your environment."
"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."
"What I found most valuable in PegaRULES is that it allows you to quickly make changes to an existing application. It's pretty easy to do any modification in the tool, which you cannot do in legacy solutions. For example, it takes a lot of time to do it in Java or in .NET. I have worked with both legacy technologies in the past, so that I can tell the difference."
"Offers a unique environment where its entire architecture is very unified"
"It's not too expensive."
"They're pretty easy to create, and they're pretty easy to deploy."
"Get to the cloud."
"The platform is good. Its footprint is a little heavy. Other than that, the product works great."
"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."
"One area for improvement is master data integration. That should be more fluid. The others are hierarchical drop-down lists, and hierarchical master data."
"It hasn't totally helped our decision-making."
"I would like to have integration of the user interfaces, and they are putting them together in the next version of the solution."
"ODM could be improved with better integration with other platforms."
"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."
"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."
"PegaRULES should provide a more drag-and-drop interface to make it a low-code, no-code product."
"PegaRULES need to improve its JVM. It needs to enhance the operation speed and memory size."
"Implementation is a challenge due to the handling of the code"
"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."
"Customers expect more out-of-box solutions to be readily available"
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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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