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 of my...
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...
by Product Management Team | Last updated on Nov 7, 2023 | AI and Machine Learning, AI and Machine Learning, Business Rules, Business Rules, Decision Platform, Good Beginnings, Good Beginnings
Many customers are actively exploring machine learning (ML) and are asking for some simple recipes that can get them going quickly before they make a deeper plunge. That said, here are some of the high-level areas for your planning that will make a difference. Spend...
by Dustin Oxford | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | Decision Platform, Tips & Tricks
We are always looking for ways we can do better. At InRule, our goal is to make automation accessible. Rule authoring is an iterative process. As we build our business rules, we are always looking for ways to improve not only our accuracy but also the performance of...
by Robert Eaman | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | Business Rules, Business Rules, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices
A couple years ago I wrote a blog post that highlighted an excellent irAuthor method which adds a member to a collection of messages in a ruleset using a Vocabulary template. While that blog post and that pattern is highly useful even to this day, I came across a...
by Dan Gardiner | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Decision Platform, Decision Platform, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure
In the first part of this two-part series, we created a Rule App that calls out to an irServer REST Rule Execution Service (RES) – if you haven’t already, I’d highly recommend reading through that first. In this part, we’re going to briefly touch on how to configure...
