Feature Comparison

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Green Check

Supported

Red X

Unsupported

Blue Exclamation

See comments for explanation

Feature

Dovetail RuleManager

Amdocs Rulemanager

Comments

Evaluation and firing of business rules and Actions

Green Check

Green Check

 

Sending outgoing email (via Log Email or Business Rule notifications)

Green Check

Green Check

RuleManager works with any SMTP mail server (it does not require Outlook).

HTML emails

Green Check

Red X

See HTML Emails

Commitment warning and expiration notifications

Green Check

Green Check

 

Business Rule action types:

 

 

 

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Message

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Command Line

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Carrier Message

Green Check

Red X

Requires Dovetail Carrier

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Service Message/Run Service

Red X

Green Check

 

Business Rule notification methods:

 

 

 

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Email

Green Check

Green Check

RuleManager does not ship with a pager clerk executable. However, RuleManager can call on an existing pager clerk executable.

 

 

 

Note: SMS requires a Twilio account See SMS Notifications.

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Notifier

Green Check

Green Check

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Tone Pager

Blue Exclamation

Green Check

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Digital Pager

Blue Exclamation

Green Check

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Text Pager

Blue Exclamation

Green Check

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None

Green Check

Green Check

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Forward to my Supervisor

Green Check

Green Check

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SMS

Green Check

Red X

Notifications based on "Normal Business Hours" and "After Hours"

Green Check

Green Check

 

Notifications based "High", "Medium", and "Low" Urgency

Green Check

Green Check

 

Repeating Business Rule Notifications

Green Check

Green Check

 

Create Activity Log on Action

Green Check

Green Check

 

Business Rule Event Creation Times:

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Event Creation

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Contract Response

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Subcase Commit

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Subcase Warning

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Commitment Time

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Commitment Warning

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Renew Notification

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Quote Expiration Date

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Earliest Service End Date

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Support Program Response

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Process/Action Duration

Red X

Green Check

 

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Clarify Defined

Green Check

Green Check

 

Business Rule Calendars:

 

 

 

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Elapsed Time

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Customer Business Hours

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Support Business Hours

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Customer Spt Prog Hours

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Internal Spt Prog Hours

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Process Instance

Red X

Green Check

 

User Defined:

 

 

 

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Properties

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Recipient Alias

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Object Types

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Events

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Event Creation Times

Green Check

Green Check

 

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Calendars

Green Check

Green Check

 

Trend Tracker

Blue Exclamation

Green Check

RuleManager does not ship with a trend tracker executable. However, RuleManager can call on an existing trend tracker executable or bat file.

Dovetail Task Manager

Green Check

Red X

Requires Dovetail Carrier and Dovetail Agent applications

Tskmgr.exe (Clarify Task Manager)

Blue Exclamation

Green Check

RuleManager does not ship with a task manager executable. However, RuleManager can call on the Amdocs task manager executable (tskmgr.exe).

ClearBasic Scripts

Blue Exclamation

Green Check

RuleManager does not ship with any ClearBasic scripts. However, RuleManager can call on the Amdocs cbbatch executable to execute ClearBasic scripts.

Service Manager Executables

Blue Exclamation

Green Check

RuleManager does not ship with any Service Manager executables. However, RuleManager can call on the Amdocs Service Manager executables.

Report Execution

Red X

Green Check

 

Support for Custom Function-based Rule Properties

Green Check

Red X

 

Support for Configuration Item Rule Properties

Green Check

Red X

 

Holiday support in Business Calendar calculations

Green Check

Red X

 

See Also

Comparison to Amdocs Rulemanager

Specific Differences

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