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IBM Operational Decision Manager vs TIBCO Streaming comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 25, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Operational Decision Ma...
Ranking in CEP
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Business Rules Management (3rd)
TIBCO Streaming
Ranking in CEP
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Streaming Analytics (26th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the CEP category, the mindshare of IBM Operational Decision Manager is 10.9%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Streaming is 20.9%, down from 26.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CEP Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
TIBCO Streaming20.9%
IBM Operational Decision Manager10.9%
Other68.2%
CEP
 

Featured Reviews

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…
MK
Good stability and scalability with the capability to combine with Spotfire
The ability for StreamBase to combine with Spotfire is its most valuable aspect. The ability to handle data in motion and the entirety of data at the same time is very good. If you don't integrate the two together it's just a monitoring tool, but if they're combined together it becomes a powerful analytical tool. When you can combine live data from streaming data sources with standing data from the customer's primary database then you can calculate some KPIs or thresholds based on the previous information. We can do data science, machine learning methods or just clever queries. You can view all this online. If a KPI hits a redline, you can send alerts, which is the solution's most functional feature.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It has benefited our organization by having less coding changes. Thus, we save time and don't have to hire as many people."
"Its ability to untangle hard coded rules and put them in a more manageable structure."
"Its ability to use decision tables to codify the rules and manage them better."
"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."
"There are absolutely benefits to managing business rules with IBM ODM instead of hard coding them into our applications. Business can change things on the fly and they don't have to deal with us in IT to do so."
"So far, the usability is great. It's also easy to set up."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The ability for StreamBase to combine with Spotfire is its most valuable aspect. The ability to handle data in motion and the entirety of data at the same time is very good. If you don't integrate the two together it's just a monitoring tool, but if they're combined together it becomes a powerful analytical tool."
 

Cons

"An area for improvement is that the documentation for ODM is huge and not very clear."
"Extracting specific rules could be better. We've had to do a lot of custom work on that. The testing, we've played a little bit with it, but we have our own testing methods. If it could be as simple as we have for our custom work, that would be great."
"I would like to have integration of the user interfaces, and they are putting them together in the next version of the solution."
"It hasn't totally helped our decision-making."
"The platform is good. Its footprint is a little heavy. Other than that, the product works great."
"ODM could be improved with better integration with other platforms."
"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."
"The solution should be more user-friendly for developers. Right now, you need a strong programmer to tune the solution. It's complicated product. I'm not sure if it can be done via self-service with BI. Because I'm from BI, I want more simplicity."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It was not a large cost. It was a one-time cost."
"We made a lifetime purchase. We purchased it by number of PVUs for our stage and product environments."
"It is an expensive solution."
"ODM's pricing could be more competitive as there are open-source business rules engines that are becoming standard."
"We have a client who had a three-month ROI on this tool, just in additional sales, from sort of the next best action of what product that they should offer to their clients. ROI can be very quick with this product."
"It will definitely improve the cash flow of our clients, thereby it will improve the cash flow to us."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Insurance Company
15%
Healthcare Company
5%
Outsourcing Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
27%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Performing Arts
10%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise15
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Also Known As

IBM Operational Decision Management, ILOG JRules, IBM ODM, IBM WebSphere Business Events
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Sample Customers

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