IBM Operational Decision Manager Reviews

Vendor: IBM

4.3 out of 5

15 reviews
100% willing to recommend

435 followers

What is IBM Operational Decision Manager?

IBM Operational Decision Manager is a comprehensive decision automation platform that helps you discover, capture, analyze, automate and govern rules-based business decisions. Anyone can work with it―from IT to business-line leaders. In seconds, it can authorize a loan, decide on a promotion or detect a cross-sell opportunity with high precision and customization. With IBM Operational Decision Manager, your applications will continuously remain up to date and well aligned with the changing business objectives of your organization. It is available in editions for both cloud and private cloud environments.

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IBM Operational Decision Manager is the #3 ranked solution in top Business Rules Management solutions. PeerSpot users give IBM Operational Decision Manager an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 15 most recent IBM Operational Decision Manager reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.1. (Among the highest in the category). IBM Operational Decision Manager is most commonly compared to Pega Platform: IBM Operational Decision Manager vs Pega Platform. IBM Operational Decision Manager is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 85% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 33% of all views.

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IBM Operational Decision Manager

December 2024

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Featured reviews

Bhasker ReddyPIdintla

Technical Delivery Head at Tech Mahindra Limited

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…

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Rajeev Lochan

BRMS Specialist (IBM Ilog, Drools, Corticon) at Capgemini

Rules authoring and governance Very flexible for business users in terms of business rules authoring. Designing orchestration. For more than eight years, I have used version 7.5 onwards. No. No. A six out of 10. No. However, I have used other rules engines. Little more costly than other…

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JayBirchmeier

Partner at Acorn Solutions Group (acornsg.com)

There is some promise of how decisions could take advantage of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). 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. Today we augment some ODM decisions with AI and with analytics, but I expect that in the next several years we will see much more growth in this area. ODM has recently released support for Decision Modeling and Notation (DMN) models that can be authored and executed right within the product. This too is an area that is in its early stages and I expect will mature quickly to an enterprise level.

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IBM Operational Decision Manager mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of IBM Operational Decision Manager in the Business Rules Management category stands at 46.1%, up from 44.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Comparison	IBM Operational Decision Manager vs FICO Blaze Advisor	Jan 4, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Pega Platform	4.1	N/A	91%	82 interviews Add to research
FICO Blaze Advisor	4.1	46.4%	77%	8 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"The solution's licensing cost needs improvement."
"ODM could be improved with better integration with other platforms."
"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."

Pricing

"It is an expensive solution."
"ODM's pricing could be more competitive as there are open-source business rules engines that are becoming standard."
"It was not a large cost. It was a one-time cost."

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