by Robert Eaman | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | Business Rules, Business Rules, Rule Harvesting, Rule Harvesting
In the Midwest, the end of summer traditionally represents the “harvest season,” when fully-grown crops are harvested from a farmer’s fields. While the concept of “rule harvesting” borrows metaphorically from the notion of producing...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | All, All, Docker, Docker, Windows Containers, Windows Containers
Reviewing the context My last post on containers was all the way back in February, and the amount of change in this space since then has been dizzying in its pace! I want to follow up my original post with some more observations and reflections on Windows Containers...
by Robert Eaman | Last updated on Feb 23, 2023 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices, Process, Process
Beyond the basics of PEMDAS for individual calculations, how does the “order of operations” work in a rule application? Here’s a quick blog post about how to understand order of operations in InRule®. Troubleshooting: Begin at the End The first thing to know about the...
by Peter Fudalej | Last updated on Jul 2, 2025 | All, All, Business Management, Business Management, Business Rules, Business Rules
And… we’re back with part two of our Back to Basics blog series! For those of you who missed part one, where I explained what a Business Rules Engine (BRE) is, you can catch up and read it here. In part two, I will answer the question, “What is a Business Rules...
by Rik Chomko | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | AI and Machine Learning, AI and Machine Learning, All, All, Automation, Automation, Big Data, Big Data
Artificial intelligence, and more specifically machine learning, is everywhere these days. We hear about applications for facial recognition, product recommendations, fraud detection, hedge fund trading, airline pricing, natural language processing, medical diagnosis,...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules
The Problem The Stable Marriage Problem is a fairly well known matching algorithm. The premise is that a group of men and an equally numbered group of women both rank their preferred matches. The solution is to create matches between all men and women. Those matches...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 26, 2024 | Business Rules, Business Rules, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM
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 fictionalizing the details, this isn’t a verbatim account of our discussion. He wondered, “Are the virtual lookup entities...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | Business Rules, Business Rules, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices
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 constructs. I highlighted the benefits of using the Execute Member Rule Set over the While Loop. With version 5.0.19,...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM
I like to use my blog posts to share insights and lessons learned during InRule client projects. The following scenario is another example of something that I keep seeing come up in my work, as well for a lot of customers. The scenario is this: when using software...
by Dustin Oxford | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | Business Rules, Business Rules
Gain More Flexibility with Collection Functions Often times we run into trouble when using collection functions with vocabulary expressions. Part of the problem is that when we want to use our named placeholders for the criteria of those expressions, we do not have...
