A colleague of mine was working with a customer authoring rules using irX for Dynamics® and irAuthor. I've taken the liberty of almost entirely...
Virtual Lookups and The Customer Data Type
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Patterns and Practices: Iterating Collections Part Deux – Well hello there, For Each
In a previous post, I reviewed how to solve a common authoring need of iterating a collection, using both the While Loop and Execute Member Rule Set...
Shifting Context for Aggregate Vocabulary Expressions
Gain More Flexibility with Collection Functions Often times we run into trouble when using collection functions with vocabulary expressions. Part...
What are Business Rules?
Every time I meet a new person and have the regular get-to-know-you conversation, I get the typical questions: Where are you from? What do you do?...
Deja Vu All Over Again
When I first used irAuthor to solve a business problem (before I worked for InRule), I had not attended any rule authoring training. I received a...
Basic irCatalog Management Using Powershell
Hand-modification of a web.config file is one of the more common post-installation tasks that our customers find themselves performing. Similarly,...
Bridging the Gap Between Business Analysis and Technology
Computers are useless: they can only give you answers. Questions are what matter. --Pablo Picasso While computers obviously aren’t “useless,”...
Drumroll Please… Introducing InRule® for the Salesforce® Platform
Our entire team is excited about our recent introduction of InRule® for the Salesforce® Platform! Our latest offering is the only enterprise-grade...
Thrown Into the Deep End with Deep Copy
With InRule v5.0.11, a new "Deep copy" option has been added to the Copy Entity, Copy Collection and Add Collection Member actions. Before going any...
InRule for JavaScript Life
Overview I've always been fascinated by the idea of emergent complexity - a concept that describes how with a small number of simple (In)Rules, a...
User Defined Functions and Variable Execution of Rule Sets
Recently we have had multiple requests to create a dynamic and variable execution structure for our rule sets. Often times we have metadata in our...
Rule Application Patterns, Part II: Collection Aggregation – The Sum of Counts
About Rule Application Patterns This blog post is the second in a series which highlight common rule authoring patterns of note. The InRule ROAD...
Thinking Big Data with Rules and Hadoop
Recently I explored some of the decision management touch points with Hadoop. The most obvious was the classic ETL scenario where folks (analysts...
Business Rules for CPQ
I can pretty much go anywhere nowadays and find something where business rules come into play. Take, for example, my recent experience shopping for...
Rule Application Patterns, Part I: Adding Members to a Collection Using Vocabulary and Explicit Rule Sets
Introducing Rule Application Patterns This blog post is the first in a series which will highlight common rule authoring patterns of note. The...
Decision Table Dreams
Last year members of the InRule Design team interviewed business users about their preferences for authoring rules generally. Many pointed to the...
Patterns and Practices: Iterating Collections
While struggling with While Loops…I was Saved by Execute Member Rule Set I have a little bit of experience with programming – enough to be...
Secrets of the Lost Dynamics Schema
When I need to explore a schema in Microsoft Dynamics, the first tool in my schema archaeology toolbox is irAuthor. More specifically, it's irAuthor...
Clinical Trials
In scientific research, it's very important to have the ability to control or compensate for as many of the factors influencing an experiment as...
Self-Service Fraud Detection
Staying One Step Ahead of the Bad Guys A couple years ago I drove to the forest preserve to go for a run. I had done it so often that it never...
InRule: Dedicated to Customer Success
InRule is installed in over 300 enterprises worldwide, most of whom use the product in mission-critical applications. Since the success of our...
Dynamic Surveys in Dynamics CRM, Part IV: The Rules
This is the final post in a four-part series that details the creation of a dynamically driven questionnaire (or survey) using Dynamics CRM and the...
Dynamic Surveys in Microsoft Dynamics, Part III: The ViewModel
This is part III in a series of posts about using the InRule BRMS along with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to create a dynamic, guided survey experience....
Chicago’s New Property Tax is Impossible to Implement?
Impossible, you say? A computer problem is impossible in this day and age? City of Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel just announced a politically...
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