by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | AI and Machine Learning, All, Analytics, Automation, Banking and Finance, Business Rules, Decision Platform, Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Healthcare, Insurance, Lending
Have you ever made a bad business decision? Maybe it was a minor one (signing a two-year contract without shopping for additional bids) or maybe it was one for the history books (filling the Hindenburg with hydrogen instead of helium). Regardless of the magnitude,...
by Robert Eaman | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, Automation, Business Rules, Tools
My job on the ROAD Services Team at InRule involves connecting with a variety of InRule users, evaluating their business requirements, and turning those requirements into functional rules in irAuthor. Over the years, I’ve run across a variety of interesting...
by Product Management Team | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, Business Rules, Lending
I recently hunkered down to solve the APR calculation. Ever since I started working in the lending industry nearly two decades ago, I wanted to explore it but never had the time. Before I started the work, however, I asked many of our lending customers how they handle...
by Robert Eaman | Last updated on Nov 5, 2024 | Business Management, Business Management, Business Rules, Business Rules, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices, Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks
In computer terms, what is nothing, and why should you care? Even for rule authors with a development background, a quick review of how InRule handles “nothing” values can be useful for those occasions when you need to know if you have a value. In this post, I’ll...
by Peter Fudalej | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | Business Rules, Business Rules, Customer Relationship Management, Customer Relationship Management, Decision Platform, Decision Platform, Healthcare, Healthcare, Healthcare, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM
I don’t particularly enjoy going to the doctor. As a healthy individual, I generally find it to be a waste of time and money. Yes, I realize how privileged I am to be able to make that statement. But hear me out. I go to a hospital, which is already on the list...
by Dan Gardiner | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | Business Rules, Business Rules, Decision Platform, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices, Software Development, Software Development, Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks, Tools, Tools
Like many InRule users, my background is in software development. As a result, I often find myself taking whatever means I can to bypass low-code tools: When I need to make changes to a WordPress website, I inevitably become annoyed at the rich text editor and end up...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, Business Management, Business Management, Business Rules, Business Rules, Decision Platform, Decision Platform, Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks
The concept of using decision logic to manage questionnaires is probably not a reach when you consider the complexity those types of user experiences may entail. Think about all of the possible routes and paths; a series of questions may lead a user. For example, with...
by Dan Gardiner | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, Application Management, Application Management, Business Management, Business Management, Business Rules, Business Rules, Decision Platform, Decision Platform
In my last post, I discussed ways to programmatically modify Rule Applications in code to handle different configurations and data requirements in different environments. While that method is certainly useful, it takes significantly more effort than is necessary to...
by Product Management Team | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, Big Data, Big Data, Business Management, Business Management, Business Rules, Business Rules, JavaScript, JavaScript
Managing the reference data required by a decision is a common challenge for most rule applications. And depending upon your requirements, you have several options for storing that data, such as SQL Endpoints, cloud-based databases, and external service options. But...
by Dan Gardiner | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, Application Management, Application Management, Business Rules, Business Rules, Decision Platform, Decision Platform, Integration, Integration, Software Development, Software Development
Warning: As with the previous posts about Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, this post is intended for a technical/developer audience. Background A while back, I started a series about CI/CD with a pair of blog posts that walk through examples of ways to...
