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IBM Operational Decision Manager vs TIBCO Streaming comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 30, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

IBM Operational Decision Ma...
Ranking in Complex Event Processing (CEP)
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Business Rules Management (3rd)
TIBCO Streaming
Ranking in Complex Event Processing (CEP)
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Streaming Analytics (24th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Complex Event Processing (CEP) category, the mindshare of IBM Operational Decision Manager is 14.8%, up from 6.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Streaming is 20.0%, down from 29.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Complex Event Processing (CEP) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
TIBCO Streaming20.0%
IBM Operational Decision Manager14.8%
Other65.2%
Complex Event Processing (CEP)
 

Featured Reviews

Bhasker ReddyPIdintla - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Delivery Head at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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…
MK
Head of Data and Analytics Solutions at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"ODM has probably been one of the more stable IBM products I have used."
"Its ability to untangle hard coded rules and put them in a more manageable structure."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It's easy to build, easy to adopt for the business. Business can change those rules. I think IBM has done a good job in re-architecting the product with Decision Center as its centralized view, where the business can make changes to the rules dynamically."
"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

"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."
"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 platform is good. Its footprint is a little heavy. Other than that, the product works great."
"One area for improvement is master data integration. That should be more fluid. The others are hierarchical drop-down lists, and hierarchical master data."
"An area for improvement is that the documentation for ODM is huge and not very clear."
"It hasn't totally helped our decision-making."
"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."
"ODM could be improved with better integration with other platforms."
"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

"It is an expensive solution."
"It was not a large cost. It was a one-time cost."
"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."
"ODM's pricing could be more competitive as there are open-source business rules engines that are becoming standard."
"It will definitely improve the cash flow of our clients, thereby it will improve the cash flow to us."
"We made a lifetime purchase. We purchased it by number of PVUs for our stage and product environments."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Insurance Company
13%
Healthcare Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
5%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise15
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Also Known As

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

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Odyssey Transportation & Logistics Corporation, Swiss Customs, Athletes' Performance, L_elo, Versicherungskammer Bayern
Blendtec, Brembo, CargoSmart, Hunt Oil, Autodata, Bank of Montreal