If you have ever used or considered using a rule engine or business rule management system (BRMS), you have given quite a lot of thought to how the...
Business Rule Reporting with Custom irAuthor Extensions
GI≠GO: When Garbage in Doesn’t Equal Garbage Out
On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able...
Dynamic Surveys in Dynamics CRM: Don’t Be a Monkey With Your Survey
What's the difference between filling out a bunch of fields on a form and being guided through a directed set of questions pertinent to the topic at...
Patterns & Practices: Data Validation
Data validation is one of the most common uses of business rules. Data validation rules are usually the first rules written when getting started...
Enhancing Salesforce with Advanced Rules Engine Integration in 2024
As of 2024, Salesforce remains at the forefront of the CRM revolution, continually evolving with AI, automation through Salesforce Einstein, and...
Enhance Performance with Background Compilation Feature
We have added a new feature to the product that you should know about, because it can improve the overall performance of your .NET applications that...
Avoiding Bugs in Rule Applications: Best Practices
The problem of introducing new “bugs” while making changes, corrections, or additions to a program is a universally familiar concern to programmers....
Microsoft PBL vs. InRule: Choosing the Right Tool
Your company has decided to take the plunge into Dynamics CRM. Good news! You now have a very popular, very customizable and user-friendly platform....
InRule for JavaScript
A couple of weeks ago we announced availability of InRule® for JavaScript through an early adopter program. To our knowledge this is the very first...
Expanding the Role of Business Rules in Decision Making
While the cloud continues to dramatically change the landscape of middleware and service delivery, there remains a more subtle shift in the way we...
Rule Application Analysis: Introducing the Rule App Analyzer
Word Count In preparing to write this blog post, I did some research on the internet and learned that a blog post should be somewhere between...
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...
Calling InRule from JavaScript 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...
Boost Performance with .NET Assembly State Refresh Options
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! Create an InRule Application
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 About a Date with InRule? Mastering Date Logic in Rules
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? A Look at Tax Rule Applications
Fellow InRulian Jim Wray and I were buying our lunches at a nearby downtown Chicago store recently when we discovered some weird inconsistencies in...
Mastering Localization: Avoiding Translation Pitfalls
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...
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...
Fuzzy Matching Algorithms: Finding the Right Fit
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...
Streamlining Loan Origination with Business Rules
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...
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