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."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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"ODM has probably been one of the more stable IBM products I have used."
"By using ODM, we get rules to our applications, then we get those applications to go to market a lot faster."
"With ODM as a centralized rules engine, it's easy to track. You can version the rules in the ODM engine itself."
"So far, the usability is great. It's also easy to set up."
"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."
"getNext removes some of the managements overheads as well as inbuilt reporting."
"It's not too expensive."
"Offers a unique environment where its entire architecture is very unified"
"In certain circumstances, it can be fairly straightforward to execute and deploy new modifications."
"We can use the rules as per the class."
"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."
"They're pretty easy to create, and they're pretty easy to deploy."
"It hasn't totally helped our decision-making."
"The solution's licensing cost needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"One area for improvement is master data integration. That should be more fluid. The others are hierarchical drop-down lists, and hierarchical master data."
"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."
"The UI has always been the weakest part."
"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 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."
"Containerization should be improved in relation to Pega because Camunda is deployable in the containerization deployment process."
"The UI needs reworking."
"Customers expect more out-of-box solutions to be readily available"
"I've spent some hands-on time with the platform, and you can do those things, and it is all low code, but is it as easy as they make it sound? No. That's my two cents. For example, if I want to do something, there is no way to switch from low code. I just want to do a simple If-Then-Else rule, but I have to go through their low-code tool and do dragging and dropping. I'm a development person, and in my opinion, even some business users could do this easier. There is no way to go back and forth to an editor where I can just type in an If-Then-Else rule, which would be much faster than drawing in their low-code editor. They don't support that. They lead you too much."
"We would like to have a better ability to customize PegaRULES."
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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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