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Tips & Tricks: Rule Versioning
A Business Rule Management System is great for the sheer fact that you can quickly make changes to your application logic without having to involve...
InRule for Web and Mobile
One of the goals of the InRule v4.6 release was to make it easier for web and mobile developers to use InRule within their applications. A key...
Isn’t That Refreshing?
One of the most common ways of integrating InRule into a .NET application is to bind the rule application to a .NET assembly schema (aka .NET object...
Managing Complex Business Rules with Salesforce.com
With the growing popularity of Salesforce.com and the Force.com platform, some InRule clients have inquired about the possibility of integrating...
Challenge: Werewolves!
For this blog post, I’ve decided to CHALLENGE the readers. We are going to apply the Decision Management Community public challenge to our own...
How Low Can You Go?
Mission Impossible: Hard-coding Low-code platforms have been getting quite a bit of publicity, particularly with the release of Forrester’s report,...
How About a Date with InRule?
A date gone bad can be a funny thing - it can be the source of a story for the ages or a memorable movie bit. But a bad date check in business...
Welcome to Paradise
Web-based business applications have come a long way in the last decade. Some of them look more like installed applications than something that is...
Can Learning InRule be Taxing?
Fellow InRulian Jim Wray and I were buying our lunches at a nearby downtown Chicago store recently when we discovered some weird inconsistencies in...
Playing in the Sandbox: Running Scalable and Secure Business Rules with Dynamics CRM
Since InRule first began adding enhanced product support for Dynamics CRM over three years ago, our services team has had the opportunity to...
(Not) Lost in Translation
The Universal Language of…Soccer? With the World Cup in full swing, we are reminded yet again of the diversity of our planet. Personally, I’m also...
Extensibility Overview: Part II
InRule’s Authoring SDK provides a broad and deep framework for authoring rules in stateful applications. irAuthor, InRule’s rule authoring...
Using InRule for Population and Wellness Management
One of the most exciting things about my job is working directly with customers as they frame out a solution from scratch. Over the years I have had...
It’s OK to Play with Matches
Close Encounters I have a problem with my name. When someone calls me at work, I say “This is Mike Grucella.” My last name is pronounced...
Loan Origination and Business Rule Management Systems
During the loan origination process, when a lender makes a decision on whether or not to lend money to a potential borrower, there are a whole host...
Dogfood or Champagne: Testing InRule with InRule
It's always fun when we can eat our own dog food, er, drink our own champagne. Some of us sales and marketing people recently discovered that our QA...
Extensibility Overview: Part I
Wikipedia defines extensibility as: “…a system design principle where the implementation takes future growth into consideration. It is a systemic...
The Empowerment Food Chain
Integrating multiple technologies such that they work as a single technology can be one of the most difficult and frustrating things we...
Everyday Rule Authoring
Over the years, I have found one of the better ways to hone one’s rule authoring skills is to try and incorporate them into every day...
Turning the Tables on Rule Creation
Put Your Information to Work In the world of application development, requirements are stored in a variety of ways. As somebody who helps InRule...
Transparency and Execution
When someone I care about is in the hospital, I want to be with them. Maybe I can help make them more comfortable, maybe watch over them while they...
Insurance Claims Adjudication and Business Rule Engines
Business rule engines have had a long and storied relationship with the insurance industry. The nature of insurance business processes tends to...
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