We performed a comparison between FICO Blaze Advisor and IBM Operational Decision Manager 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."The most valuable feature is the IDE."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it has a fast engine for decisioning."
"The rules management application is the best feature because BAs or even, perhaps, a businessperson, can directly create rules, change rules, and deploy them to production directly."
"The solution is very stable."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the algorithm they use in the retail version. The execution there is very optimized - so even though we have a huge service with huge counter rules, we still get the results in milliseconds. That is something amazing I found about this tool."
"The solution is customizable, so you can create your own data items and variables to suit your needs."
"FICO Blaze Advisor's most valuable features are the analytics, the code change is not required, and even a business analyst can do that change in the rules when we set it up."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"It has benefited our organization by having less coding changes. Thus, we save time and don't have to hire as many people."
"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."
"With ODM as a centralized rules engine, it's easy to track. You can version the rules in the ODM engine itself."
"Its ability to use decision tables to codify the rules and manage them better."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see more help on the internet and more training over the internet. They only have a few blogs there, so that should be increased."
"More online support such as a knowledge base should be available."
"The developer's tools on their optimized version should be a little bit more user friendly. Additionally, it really doesn't pick up the actual exception or error of what the developers are getting."
"FICO Blaze Advisor is still missing things for maintaining the version of something. For example, we have gates for programming, for storing, or scripts. In there, one developer can prepare a file or a piece of code or something, and another developer can work on the same code or on the same text file or something, and you can manage it. This is missing in FICO Blaze Advisor."
"The initial setup of FICO Blaze Advisor was somewhat complex. The implementation took approximately three to four months. However, I left halfway through the process, I am not sure of the exact timeframe."
"FICO needs to provide a better user experience and user interface."
"Lacks notifications when code changes have been made."
"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."
"ODM could be improved with better integration with other platforms."
"One area for improvement is master data integration. That should be more fluid. The others are hierarchical drop-down lists, and hierarchical master data."
"I would like to have integration of the user interfaces, and they are putting them together in the next version of the solution."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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FICO Blaze Advisor is ranked 2nd in Business Rules Management with 8 reviews while IBM Operational Decision Manager is ranked 3rd in Business Rules Management with 15 reviews. FICO Blaze Advisor is rated 8.2, while IBM Operational Decision Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of FICO Blaze Advisor writes "The solution is stable and has the ability to extend the built-in logic, but is difficult to deploy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Operational Decision Manager writes "The solution provides an efficient, comprehensive way to manage polices for all the applications". FICO Blaze Advisor is most compared with PegaRULES and Versata BRMS, whereas IBM Operational Decision Manager is most compared with PegaRULES, Progress Corticon and Versata BRMS. See our FICO Blaze Advisor vs. IBM Operational Decision Manager report.
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