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...
by Dan Gardiner | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Decision Platform, Decision Platform, Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks
Warning: in the InRule Blog, we have a wide variety of posts – some are targeted towards business users, and others are targeted towards the more technical side of our customer base. This post is the first in a two-part series about interacting with REST endpoints...
by Dan Gardiner | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Decision Platform, Decision Platform, Force.com platform, Force.com platform, Integration, Integration, JavaScript, JavaScript, Salesforce, Salesforce
In a previous post, we looked at the fantastic integration options that are available out-of-the-box with our Salesforce integration. While the functionality that integration provides will be sufficient for the majority of InRule customers, there are always edge cases...
by Dan Gardiner | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Decision Platform, Decision Platform, Force.com platform, Force.com platform, Integration, Integration, Salesforce, Salesforce
It’s been over three years since we introduced InRule for Salesforce, and our Salesforce integration is now stronger than ever. If you want a deep dive into the integration, you’re in luck – we just released a webinar that goes into all the juicy details. Want to dive...
by Dan Gardiner | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Decision Platform, Decision Platform, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices, Process, Process, Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks
Introducing the irAuthor Merge Extension What is a merge tool? While InRule is designed to empower business users to author their own rules, there will inevitably be folks from the IT side of the organization that interact with business rules at some point – be it for...
