ODM's pricing could be more competitive as there are open-source business rules engines that are becoming standard, like Drooms from the Java Open Source Enterprise Suite, although ODM is a better product than those.
IBM has offered ODM on Cloud for over three years now. They have a really attractive pricing model that allows our customers to get started very quickly without the need to worry about hardware provisioning and software installation.
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I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten.
ODM's pricing could be more competitive as there are open-source business rules engines that are becoming standard, like Drooms from the Java Open Source Enterprise Suite, although ODM is a better product than those.
It was not a large cost. It was a one-time cost.
IBM has offered ODM on Cloud for over three years now. They have a really attractive pricing model that allows our customers to get started very quickly without the need to worry about hardware provisioning and software installation.
We made a lifetime purchase. We purchased it by number of PVUs for our stage and product environments.