Nected vs Drools
Stop wrestling with code-heavy Drools setups that lock out your business teams. Nected delivers the same decision automation power with visual workflows, no-code rule management, and enterprise-grade reliability—ready to deploy in under a week.
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Current Drools users are hitting the same walls over and over. If you're researching alternatives, you've probably experienced these pain points firsthand:
Before you invest more time and money into Drools, consider what staying costs you:
Total Cost of Ownership
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| Time to First Value | 6–12+ months | 4–6 months | <1 week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Headcount | 2–4 FTEs | 1–2 FTEs | 0–0.5 FTEs |
| Iteration Speed | 2–3 weeks/change | 1–2 weeks/change | Live updates in minutes |
| Business User Access | No (dev-only) | No (custom UI) | Yes (visual) |
| Audit, Versioning, SLA | Manual / None | Custom impl. | Built-in controls |
| Total 5‑Year Cost | $350K–$440K+ | $260K–$350K+ | ~$100K–$150K |
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Provide personalized financial services by automating credit scoring, risk assessment, and dynamic pricing tailored to individual customers.
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Improve efficiency and accuracy. Nected's low-code platform empowers insurance companies to automate workflows and enhance claims processing.
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Deliver personalized shopping experiences with automated workflows that power dynamic discounts, targeted promotions, and customer segmentation.
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Enhance the customer travel experience with optimized pricing, seamless payment routing, and advanced risk management workflows.
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Improve patient care and engagement with workflows that streamline compliance, clinical decision-making, and onboarding processes.
Deliver smarter customer experiences with automated lead scoring, dynamic pricing for car sales, and advanced fraud detection workflows.
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Enhance customer deliveries with workflows that automate payment routing, risk management, and lead allocation for seamless logistics.
Streamline financial operations with automated risk assessment, credit scoring, and contract-based dynamic pricing. Adapt pricing structures based on transaction volumes, client tiers without manual oversight.
Optimize healthcare workflows with automated underwriting, claims processing, and regulatory compliance. Implement real-time decisioning for insurance approvals, patient onboarding, and medical billing automation.
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Drive healthcare innovation with workflows designed for compliance, clinical rule engines, and patient onboarding, improving operational accuracy and efficiency.
Enhance your business operations with automated workflows that optimize pricing strategies, promotional campaigns, and inventory management for seamless scalability.
Streamline aviation operations by automating transaction routing, mitigating risks, and implementing dynamic pricing strategies to optimize efficiency.
Deliver smarter customer experiences with automated lead scoring, dynamic pricing for car sales, and advanced fraud detection workflows.
Enhance operational efficiency with automated shipment pricing, dynamic lead allocation, and real-time payment routing. Ensure seamless coordination between vendors and optimize pricing for bulk shipping contracts.
These aren't isolated incidents. Here's what actual Drools users told us:
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While Drools locks you into technical complexity, Nected gives you both power and simplicity:
Drools slowed them down with code-heavy logic and zero workflow support. Nected helped them move faster, scale smarter, and hand control back to the teams that need it. Here’s what they have to say after making the switch:
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Watch how easy it is to build decision flows that would take weeks in Drools:
In this demo, you'll see:
Perfect for: Technical evaluators, business stakeholders, and anyone considering the switch from Drools
Nected empowers organizations and professionals globally to streamline rule management and enhance their operational workflows.
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Unlike Drools, Nected bridges the gap between technical power and business usability:
Most teams complete migration in 2-4 weeks with our guided process. We provide rule mapping, data migration tools, and dedicated support. Plus, you can run both systems in parallel during transition to eliminate risk.
Absolutely. Nected supports complex decision trees, nested conditions, and enterprise-scale rule sets. Many customers migrate rules that were "impossible" to simplify in Drools. Our visual interface actually makes complex logic easier to understand and maintain.
Nected provides pre-built connectors for popular systems, plus REST API compatibility with any custom integrations. Our migration team handles the technical transition so your existing workflows continue uninterrupted.
Including development, maintenance, and operational costs, Nected typically costs 60-80% less than maintaining Drools over 3-5 years. You eliminate developer overhead while gaining capabilities that would require custom development in Drools.
Every migration includes dedicated specialist support, success guarantee, and rollback protection. We've migrated 200+ teams from various rule engines with 98% success rate on schedule.
Nected is built on a modern, cloud-native architecture using highly scalable microservices, distributed processing, and low-latency data pipelines. Unlike Drools’ Java/DRL-based setup, Nected delivers a visual, API-first platform that integrates seamlessly with modern infrastructures. This eliminates the steep learning curve of DRL and lets both developers and business teams work faster without compromising flexibility.
Yes. Nected is designed for enterprise-grade scalability. It supports millions of decision calls per minute with sub-200ms response times. The platform auto-scales horizontally across clusters, ensuring consistent performance even under extreme workloads. Many customers in fintech, e-commerce, and logistics already run high-throughput workloads on Nected without bottlenecks.
Nected supports flexible deployment options depending on your security and compliance needs:
Drools requires manual setup and heavy maintenance. Nected accelerates deployment to days instead of months.
Nected matches Drools’ configurability while adding a no-code/low-code layer for usability. Developers can still extend logic with APIs, SDKs, and custom scripts, while business users gain a visual interface to customize workflows and rules without code. This dual approach offers flexibility without the complexity tax of maintaining DRL configurations.
Yes. Nected is built with enterprise-grade security as a core pillar:
Unlike Drools, where you must build your own governance layer, Nected ships with security and compliance features out of the box.
Nected ensures a compliant transition by preserving decision logs, mapping legacy rules, and enabling rollback protection. The built-in audit trails and governance features provide visibility that often needs custom development in Drools. This makes regulatory audits simpler and reduces compliance costs.
Absolutely. Nected provides pre-built connectors for databases, APIs, CRMs, ERPs, payment gateways, and messaging systems. Plus, it exposes a REST API for any custom integration. This means any system you connected to Drools can be plugged into Nected — usually with less effort.
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