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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Business Rules Management category, the mindshare of FICO Blaze Advisor is 31.1%, down from 33.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Operational Decision Manager is 32.5%, down from 33.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Progress Corticon is 6.8%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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PIOTR SHUBIANOK - PeerSpot reviewer
The solution is stable and has the ability to extend the built-in logic, but is difficult to deploy
FICO needs to provide a better user experience and user interface. Unfortunately, our clients are not able to add customization by themselves. So this limits their ability to use the solution. FICO Blaze is a complex technology, so it's more about engineering work. This means that we need to hire developers who will learn FICO Blaze as technology and use it. Without development knowledge, it is impossible to use the solution. Our clients do not always have a budget to hire huge salaried engineers, and they want to be able to tune small changes by themselves, but unfortunately, they can't because again, Blaze is really a complex technology. Currently, the solution's interface allows for really simple changes to be made by our clients. I would like to have an easier user-friendly interface to allow for more changes to be made by the client without the need for an engineer. This is not true for all companies. We are talking about some real strategies when we have a lot of decision tables, rules, and decision graphs. Because it's really hard for our business users/customers to make low-level customizations by themselves. The main reason why we switched to other solutions is that we don't see the possibility with FICO Blaze Advisor and vector of FICA company that they think to improve this because they created the decision model. This is an extension of FICO Blaze with some new modern UI items, but it's still not working 100 percent. Unfortunately, we see that it's a huge gap nowadays with this old technology that's why we continue to search for new software which we'll use.
Bhasker ReddyPIdintla - PeerSpot reviewer
The solution provides an efficient, comprehensive way to manage polices for all the applications.
We use ODM to set complex business rules. For instance, we deploy this solution for most of our banking customers because there are frequent changes in the policies and business rules. These are complex to manage for enterprise applications.  ODM provides an efficient, comprehensive way to manage…
it_user7347 - PeerSpot reviewer
First Look – Progress Corticon Update
Progress Corticon Business Rules Management System (BRMS) v5.2 was delivered in February and focused on key enhancements for natural language support, mobility, and Progress Software integration.  Since the first version nearly a decade ago, Corticon has focused on offering easy-to-use tools to…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Insurance Company
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
30%
Insurance Company
14%
Healthcare Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Also Known As

Blaze Advisor
IBM Operational Decision Management, ILOG JRules, IBM ODM
Corticon BRMS, Corticon, Progress Corticon
 

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Sample Customers

Aviva, Absa, Nationwide Building Society
Odyssey Transportation & Logistics Corporation, Swiss Customs, Athletes' Performance, L_elo, Versicherungskammer Bayern
Tokio Marine, Cigna, Vitalbox, Adobe, D-reizen, Brocacef, Columbus Stainless, Redwood, Unum, eBay, UCS
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