by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Application Management, Application Management, Integration, Integration, Software Development, Software Development
There’s an awkward period in many romantic relationships where a person moves in with another person — but not completely. They still have their separate apartment “just in case” (can you blame them?), and with that apartment comes the snail mail. I don’t think I’m...
by Dustin Oxford | Last updated on Mar 26, 2024 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices
Getting started with rule authoring can feel overwhelming at first. To help with this, one of the things I suggest to our users (after they finish Rule Authoring training) is to take a process that they know very well and model it in InRule. So for this blog post, I...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 26, 2024 | All, All, AWS Lambda, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure
2002, the year InRule was born. Windows XP was the dominant client operating system and Windows 2000 Server was continuing to make headway into the enterprise. If you purchased software, it very likely ran on desktops and servers that you had to maintain and replace...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 25, 2024 | All, All, Cloud, Cloud, JavaScript, JavaScript, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure
If you’re building internet connected devices, implementing a decision platform can be a key differentiator for both your product team and your device users. This is a separation of concerns. Each audience (product team or users) has its own priorities with its own...
by Product Management Team | Last updated on Nov 7, 2023 | All, All, Business Management, Business Management, Customers, Customers, Good Beginnings, Good Beginnings, Process, Process
Not all business problems are obvious to everyone on the team. Agreeing on problem priority is equally troublesome. Decision management begins with people talking to each other about what’s important. It includes hopes, dreams and the current state of suffering. The...
by Dustin Oxford | Last updated on Feb 23, 2023 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices, Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks
When I first became a rule author, one of the initial challenges I encountered was making nested comparisons that compared one of the fields of one member of a collection against that field for the other members in the collection. To illustrate this, let’s look at the...
by Product Management Team | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Business Management, Business Management, Good Beginnings, Good Beginnings, Process, Process
How a rules project is led has as much to do with its potential success as any other consideration. An effective leader can rally a team towards a series of major wins; an ineffective leader will leave a team scraping for minor victories. How you choose to lead your...
by Dan Meyer | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Process, Process
Editor’s Note: Visit this page to review Dan’s most recent blog post, Exciting New Ways to Execute Rules From Microsoft Dynamics 365. Need to add more complex business logic to your workflows in Dynamics? Want to easily embed calls to InRule within workflows? We...
by Dustin Oxford | Last updated on Feb 22, 2023 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks
Documentation can often be seen as a hassle. From finding time to write new documentation, updating existing or searching for previously generated documentation, its perception as a necessary evil is valid. However, within irAuthor there are several ways to simplify...
by Product Management Team | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | Business Management, Business Management, Business Rules, Business Rules, Good Beginnings, Good Beginnings
Over the years I have interviewed many rule authors and found they come in a lot of different packages. I tend to group them into three categories: The Casual Rule Author This is one of my favorites and is the focus of InRule’s Web Authoring initiative. This person...
