InRule for IT architects

IT architects are tasked with ensuring technology platforms are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards. They need solutions that integrate smoothly with existing systems, deliver high performance under load, and provide transparency for compliance and governance.

IT architect challenges

IT architects must ensure decisioning platforms integrate cleanly with complex enterprise systems while maintaining scalability, performance, and governance.

Integration complexity
Integration complexity

Architects must connect rules and processes with CRMs, ERPs, and data platforms. Disparate systems, legacy applications, and cloud services make integration slow and error-prone.

Governance and traceability
Governance and traceability

Maintaining transparency and auditability across decision logic is challenging. Without versioning, tracing, and clear reports, it’s difficult to prove compliance or align stakeholders.

Scaling decisions
Scaling decisions

Applications must handle high transaction volumes without degrading performance. Legacy systems struggle to deliver decisions in milliseconds, especially when rules, workflows, and machine learning models need to run together.

Architecting scalable decision systems with InRule

InRule helps IT architects design systems that integrate seamlessly, scale reliably, and remain compliant. With connectors for Salesforce and Dynamics, an SDK that supports deep customization, and an API-first design, architects can use their data wherever it lives. The JavaScript runtime brings rules directly to data in browsers, mobile apps, or Snowflake procedures. With regression testing and audit trails, teams can trust their rules, test effectively, and deploy with confidence.

Flexible deployment

Deploy rules and processes on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. InRule runs natively in .NET or JavaScript, ensuring the same rules execute consistently across environments.

High-performance execution

InRule’s runtime execution engine delivers decisions in the low tens of milliseconds, even at enterprise scale. It scales out easily for high-volume workloads.

Governance tools

Tracing, audit-ready reports, and version control provide transparency for regulators and IT stakeholders. Architects gain the ability to monitor, test, and adapt decision logic without losing control.

Building scalable, compliant architectures with InRule

Architects value InRule’s balance of business-friendly modeling (Vocabulary, decision tables) and developer extensibility (SDKs, integrations, managed extensions).

The ability to organize complex rulesets into structured logic trees, test rules immediately during modeling, and trace every step of execution makes governance easier than with traditional or open source BREs. Combined, these capabilities help architects deliver systems that scale, integrate, and remain compliant in complex, regulated environments.

Architecting decision automation in practice

Define architectural requirements
Define architectural requirements

Architects evaluate how InRule fits within existing systems, identifying integration points with CRMs, ERPs, and data platforms to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

Model governance and controls
Model governance and controls

Decision logic is externalized from code and structured with Vocabulary and decision tables, giving architects the traceability and consistency needed for compliance.

Integrate and deploy flexibly
Integrate and deploy flexibly

Using REST APIs, the irSDK, and the JavaScript runtime, architects embed rules across cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments, bringing logic directly to the data when needed.

Validate performance and scale
Validate performance and scale

Regression testing, version control, and the runtime execution engine ensure updates can be deployed safely while supporting high-volume workloads in the low tens of milliseconds.

Monitor and audit
Monitor and audit

Visual Trace, audit-ready reports, and execution logs provide the transparency and observability needed for audits, security reviews, and ongoing system governance.

FAQ

Real questions. Real answers.
Top questions from our community

How does InRule integrate with my existing systems?

InRule integrates with enterprise systems through REST APIs, the irSDK, and connectors for Salesforce and Dynamics. The JavaScript runtime allows rules to run in browsers, mobile apps, or big data platforms like Snowflake.

What performance can I expect at scale?

The InRule runtime execution engine is optimized for enterprise workloads, delivering decisions in the low tens of milliseconds. It supports high throughput and hot-swap versioning for zero-downtime updates.

How does InRule ensure governance and compliance?

InRule provides Visual Trace, Rule Application Reports, regression testing, and version control. Every decision is logged and auditable, ensuring transparency for regulators and stakeholders.

Is InRule limited to rules, or can it handle processes and ML too?

InRule combines business rules, business process automation, and explainable machine learning. This ensures deterministic guardrails, orchestrated workflows, and predictive insights all run together in one governed platform.

Can InRule fit into hybrid or cloud-native architectures?

Yes. InRule supports on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployment models. The API-first design, SDK, and JavaScript runtime provide flexibility to integrate into modern architectures without lock-in.

Testimonials

What our clients are saying

Lee Company (facilities services)
Lee Company (facilities services)
Director of IT
“We’re still early in our journey with InRule and have so many more processes we can optimize with automation.”



Alabama Department of Public Health
Alabama Department of Public Health
Senior Manager
"InRule is in a class of its own. The BRMS is very intuitive, easy to use, and performs great. The best part is the after-sales support … they value customer success."


Fortegra Financial
Fortegra Financial
Director of Application Development
"With InRule, we’ve seen specific evidence of better decisions."





Essity
Essity
Dana Chris Reaves, Director of IT
“The most important factor in choosing InRule’s platform was its ability to capture all the different data sets … turning it into actionable insights and dashboards. … flexibility … was a true game-changer.”


Residential Earthquake Insurance Company
Residential Earthquake Insurance Company
VP Information Systems
"By utilizing the InRule rule authoring tools across our development and business departments we have been able to eliminate a lot of ambiguity between what the business users want and what the developers deliver.”


Toi-Toys
Toi-Toys
Bart Daams: Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Manager
"An unexpected benefit was the transparency in locating a specific product in each step of the process … we now just look in InRule and immediately discover its whereabouts. With manual ways of working … you’re bound to miss steps … InRule helps ensure full compliance."

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