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 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 most valuable feature is the IDE."
"The solution is customizable, so you can create your own data items and variables to suit your needs."
"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 solution is very stable."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it has a fast engine for decisioning."
"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."
"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."
"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 solution has reduced the backlog for IT."
"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."
"So far, the usability is great. It's also easy to set up."
"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."
"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."
"FICO needs to provide a better user experience and user interface."
"Lacks notifications when code changes have been made."
"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."
"More online support such as a knowledge base should be available."
"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."
"An area for improvement is that the documentation for ODM is huge and not very clear."
"The solution's licensing cost needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
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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, Versata BRMS and Progress Corticon , 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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