by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | All, All, Business Management, Business Management, Business Rules, Business Rules, Customers, Customers
I can pretty much go anywhere nowadays and find something where business rules come into play. Take, for example, my recent experience shopping for a new trimmer for the yard. I had seen commercials for garden tools with interchangeable attachments and thought it was...
by Robert Eaman | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices
Introducing Rule Application Patterns This blog post is the first in a series which will highlight common rule authoring patterns of note. The InRule ROAD Team (Rule Oriented Application Design) has compiled a wide selection of useful rule authoring patterns which we...
by Product Management Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, InRule Labs, InRule Labs
Last year members of the InRule Design team interviewed business users about their preferences for authoring rules generally. Many pointed to the Decision Table as their go-to artifact for lots of reasons. It’s compact, reduces edits across many similar rules (when...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Feb 23, 2023 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Insurance, Insurance, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices
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 dangerous. However, this experience biased me just enough that when presented with the problem below, my first approach was to...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Microsoft, Microsoft, Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks, Tools, Tools
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 + irX for CRM + irVerify, but what’s a few more components among friends? But before I can put on my faded-brown...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Customization, Customization, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks
One of my all-time favorite episodes of The Simpsons is the one when Homer intentionally gains weight so that he can get on disability and work from home. When he sits in his makeshift home office on the first day, he turns on the computer which prompts him with a...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules
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 possible. This is as true with a trial for a new medicine fighting cancer as it is with an epidemiological survey of...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | All, All, Banking and Finance, Banking and Finance, Business Rules, Business Rules
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 crossed my mind that something like this would happen. When I made it back to my car, I found my window had been bashed in. I...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules
InRule is installed in over 300 enterprises worldwide, most of whom use the product in mission-critical applications. Since the success of our company hinges on the success of our customers, we felt it was time to create a team solely focused on that goal and I have...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business 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 InRule BRMS. You can find previous entries in this series here: Part I: Overview Part II: Dynamics architecture Part...
