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IBM Operational Decision Manager pros and cons

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JB
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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it_user841917 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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PS
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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it_user841893 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Architec71ce - PeerSpot reviewer
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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SystemsA8acd - PeerSpot reviewer
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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DataMana2ddf - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Bhasker ReddyPIdintla - PeerSpot reviewer
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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RAUL JERONIMO VARGAS - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 2, 2022
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.
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it_user840855 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 20, 2018
Its ability to use decision tables to codify the rules and manage them better.
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IBM Operational Decision Manager Cons review quotes

JB
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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it_user841917 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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PS
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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it_user841893 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Architec71ce - PeerSpot reviewer
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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SystemsA8acd - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 21, 2018
Get to the cloud.
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DataMana2ddf - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Bhasker ReddyPIdintla - PeerSpot reviewer
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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RAUL JERONIMO VARGAS - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 2, 2022
ODM could be improved with better integration with other platforms.
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Vikram Mamilla - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 1, 2023
An area for improvement is that the documentation for ODM is huge and not very clear.
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