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IBM Operational Decision Manager vs TIBCO Streambase CEP comparison

IBM and TIBCO are both solutions in the CEP category. IBM is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0, while TIBCO is ranked #2. IBM holds a 11.4% mindshare in C, compared to TIBCO’s 20.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.
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Categories and Ranking

IBM Operational Decision Ma...
Ranking in CEP
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Business Rules Management (3rd)
TIBCO Streambase CEP
Ranking in CEP
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the CEP category, the mindshare of IBM Operational Decision Manager is 11.4%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Streambase CEP is 20.5%, down from 30.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Bhasker ReddyPIdintla - PeerSpot reviewer
The solution provides an efficient, comprehensive way to manage polices for all the applications.
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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MK
Good stability and scalability with the capability to combine with Spotfire
The ability for StreamBase to combine with Spotfire is its most valuable aspect. The ability to handle data in motion and the entirety of data at the same time is very good. If you don't integrate the two together it's just a monitoring tool, but if they're combined together it becomes a powerful analytical tool. When you can combine live data from streaming data sources with standing data from the customer's primary database then you can calculate some KPIs or thresholds based on the previous information. We can do data science, machine learning methods or just clever queries. You can view all this online. If a KPI hits a redline, you can send alerts, which is the solution's most functional feature.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"With ODM as a centralized rules engine, it's easy to track. You can version the rules in the ODM engine itself."
"I like the fact that I don't have to deal with business rules, and then our business partners deal with it. I'm a developer, so I don't have to deal with that kind of stuff. I just make the code, then our business people take care of the business side. It's a great split."
"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."
"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."
"Its ability to untangle hard coded rules and put them in a more manageable structure."
"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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"The ability for StreamBase to combine with Spotfire is its most valuable aspect. The ability to handle data in motion and the entirety of data at the same time is very good. If you don't integrate the two together it's just a monitoring tool, but if they're combined together it becomes a powerful analytical tool."
 

Cons

"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."
"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 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."
"I would like to have integration of the user interfaces, and they are putting them together in the next version of the solution."
"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."
"The solution's licensing cost needs improvement."
"Get to the cloud."
"An area for improvement is that the documentation for ODM is huge and not very clear."
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"The solution should be more user-friendly for developers. Right now, you need a strong programmer to tune the solution. It's complicated product. I'm not sure if it can be done via self-service with BI. Because I'm from BI, I want more simplicity."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We made a lifetime purchase. We purchased it by number of PVUs for our stage and product environments."
"It was not a large cost. It was a one-time cost."
"ODM's pricing could be more competitive as there are open-source business rules engines that are becoming standard."
"We have a client who had a three-month ROI on this tool, just in additional sales, from sort of the next best action of what product that they should offer to their clients. ROI can be very quick with this product."
"It will definitely improve the cash flow of our clients, thereby it will improve the cash flow to us."
"It is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
28%
Insurance Company
15%
Healthcare Company
8%
Computer Software Company
5%
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IBM Operational Decision Manager
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Also Known As

IBM Operational Decision Management, ILOG JRules, IBM ODM, IBM WebSphere Business Events
Streambase CEP
 

Overview

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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TIBCO StreamBase is an industry-leading event processing platform for applying mathematical and relational processing to real-time data streams. It enables organizations to rapidly build and deploy event-driven applications for the automated Fast Data process at a fraction of the cost and risk of alternatives.
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Sample Customers

Odyssey Transportation & Logistics Corporation, Swiss Customs, Athletes' Performance, L_elo, Versicherungskammer Bayern
Betfair, BlueCrest, BM&FBOVESPA, City Index, CMC Markets, CME Group, ConvergEx, GAIN Capital, Geneva Energy Markets, Kosmos, Nest Investimentos, Linden Lab, PhaseCapital, Potamus Trading, RBC Capital Markets, Santiago Stock Exchange, SunGard, Thomson Reuters
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