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IBM Operational Decision Manager pros and cons

Vendor: IBM

4.3 out of 5

15 reviews
100% willing to recommend

IBM Operational Decision Manager Pros review quotes

Architect at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 20, 2018

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.

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Technical Lead at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 21, 2018

With ODM as a centralized rules engine, it's easy to track. You can version the rules in the ODM engine itself.

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Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 21, 2018

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.

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Systems Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 21, 2018

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.

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CEO/President

Jun 18, 2019

So far, the usability is great. It's also easy to set up.

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Partner at Acorn Solutions Group (acornsg.com)

Jun 20, 2019

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.

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Data Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Jun 18, 2019

It has benefited our organization by having less coding changes. Thus, we save time and don't have to hire as many people.

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Prakash RaoShelke

Software Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 23, 2020

The most valuable feature is the deployment part because it is very easy to deploy. Even a businessperson or someone from a non-technical background can easily deploy it and the rules will work.

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IBM ODM Rules Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 1, 2023

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.

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Bhasker ReddyPIdintla

Technical Delivery Head at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

May 26, 2022

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.

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Architect at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 20, 2018

One area for improvement is master data integration. That should be more fluid. The others are hierarchical drop-down lists, and hierarchical master data.

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Technical Lead at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 21, 2018

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.

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Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 21, 2018

If merging could be just like SVN, that would help. It should be a lot simpler. That's the only thing I don't like about ODM, merging from our local computer up to the Decision Server. I feel like it could be a lot easier.

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Systems Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 21, 2018

Get to the cloud.

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CEO/President

Jun 18, 2019

It hasn't totally helped our decision-making.

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JB

Partner at Acorn Solutions Group (acornsg.com)

Jun 20, 2019

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.

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Data Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Jun 18, 2019

I would like to have integration of the user interfaces, and they are putting them together in the next version of the solution.

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Prakash RaoShelke

Software Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 23, 2020

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.

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IBM ODM Rules Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 1, 2023

An area for improvement is that the documentation for ODM is huge and not very clear.

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Bhasker ReddyPIdintla

Technical Delivery Head at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

May 26, 2022

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.

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