Higson vs. IBM Operational Decision Manager

Hyperion is great for Financial report consolidation and also for generating reports. It also has built in regulatory and other compliance rules which helps us reduce costs overall. The OLAP engine can easily be used for a full scale project management requirement. Since the data is stored in clusters in the cloud, read and write speeds are high and we use that speeds to generate multiple Business Models in just a few mintues.

IBM Operational Decision Manager can be used to manage complex business processes with less use of IT infrastructure and more use of centralized decision making. Decision-making depends on a logical framework and the creation of commands for better futuristic decisions with less time consumption and more precision and accuracy. IBM's Operational decision manager application is well suited for such scenarios where complex processes have to be streamlined.

Incentivized

• Separation of business logic from the app's code
• Decision table performance
• Good GUI

• Converting business policy to business rule.
• Intelligent and responsive automation decision.
• Reduction of duplicated functionality.

Incentivized

• Pretty high entry threshold
• A few bugs in GUI
• UX might be better in some places

• There is some confusion for users as they have many different tools and consoles to use and write/edit rules. There is the rule designer, an enterprise console, a business console, etc and there is overlapping functionality between the consoles.
• There needs to be support added for creating models using the decision modeling notation (DMN). Businesses need to be able to represent the knowledge using a model and DMN is a standard way of representing the information.
• Also to be able to import and export models that have been created using DMN. There are tools that companies use to create DMN models and represent the business domain and logic. This tool needs to be able to import those models and provide execution runtime for the same.

Incentivized

It's a very good tool to manage business rules. There are certain GUI bugs and a code boilerplate, but overall it does its job really well.

There is documentation on the site to help learn about the tool. There is also an email to ask for help or any other questions. The team responds quickly with a full answer.

Hyperon has got far better performance. It also has far better GUI to manage business rules. On the other hand, Drools has a bigger community to help you with your problems.

A lot of firms will have their own pseudo-rule engines that are tailored to the application, but adopting open source frameworks like Drools IBM Operational Decision Manager includes an English-like rule language, an IDE for defining vocabulary and rules, an easy interface for creating rule applications from scratch and deploying them, as well as tools for testing them locally, through API, and via simulations.

Incentivized

• Shorter time to market with new features
• Business users might change things without the help of developers

• Improved Time to Market for new products.
• Operational efficiency.
• Cost savings in application maintenance.

Incentivized