I rate IBM Operational Decision Manager eight out of 10. I recommend ODM because it's better at managing complex rules than any other product. Other solutions aren't adequate for the enterprise level. It can handle any rule at any level of complexity.

It is enterprise scale and provides amazing performance. 

In a process or case, there is decision logic. Without this tool, the business logic oftentimes gets coded into those tools, and now, it's no longer accessible to the business. While it compliments business process management and case management, managing business logic is separate and abstracted away from those processes. However, the tool is definitely used in conjunction with them.

Getting started with ODM can be a bit difficult without a little expertise. Most of our rules team have been working with it for a long time. In the end, it's well worth the investment to learn it, because it is the most capable solution. For nontechnical users, it's very easy to use. It is really the technical side of things to get it set up where the investment starts upfront and the usability ends up being the best experience in the end.

I recommend the solution to others and rate it a nine out of ten.

At this point, I would rate this solution a seven out of 10, because I see room for improvement. 

Regarding advice, it's great if you're going big. Just be careful about the merging.

With my current organization, because we have so many repeatable processes, repeatable requirements, I strongly feel we need to have a centralized ODM solution. We have had discussions with my leads and my higher-ups. ODM is in line, it is first in line. Obviously this is my preferred ODM solution. And I would recommend it to my colleagues as well, definitely.

Although costly, it is a very strong product in the BRMS domain.

We are really happy with it. It is easy to use.

We have integrated this solution with other solutions. It was very easy to do, once we had a base to work with.

It could help with compliance or governance issues. It just hasn't yet.

We hope to use it for automation projects in the future.

ODM is suitable for all sizes of companies. I would rate it as eight out of ten.

If you are looking for a good rule solution that is easy to implement if you do your homework, which also has good support, then I would say go for IBM ODM.

We are looking into using Decision Server Insights (DSI) within ODM going forward.

If our compliance department needed to have a better understanding of what rules were implemented, it would probably be easy just to pull them out of the one system, since they are not dispersed across multiple applications. Though, we have never had compliance ask for this type of information.

If implementing ODM, I'd recommend finding a partner with experience who understands the responsibilities and functions this product should provide, which can ease the transition. I would give ODM a rating of nine out of ten.

When looking for a vendor I want to have the confidence that they are competent and they have a proper team behind it, that they have a big team. So I know that in 10 years, the product will still be around, and we will not have to rebuild our solutions every two years because they change everything.

I give it an eight out of 10 overall. Software never gets a 10. They can still add a lot of things. There's a very good base, vanilla setup, but all the other things that are customer-specific, you need to add.

We would recommend this solution.

We went with this solution from IBM because IBM has a roadmap and because Watson is the best software for artificial intelligence. We expect that our company's efficiency will increase, given the roadmap: ODM, RPA, Watson, etc. And the scalability was also an important factor for us.

It works. I would recommend trying it.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: 

• Scalability
• The ability to migrate away from having developers be the only ones able to create rules. 
• The ability to free up our resources to look for other sources of rules which currently are not an effective aid.