by Robert Eaman | Last updated on Mar 26, 2024 | Rule Harvesting, Rule Harvesting
In the world of business process management, Excel workbooks often serve as a treasure trove of decision logic and operational guidelines. Harvesting business rules from Excel is a critical step towards automating processes, enhancing decision-making, and ensuring...
by Peter Fudalej | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | AI and Machine Learning, Automation, Healthcare
In previous blog posts, where we detailed what business rules are, as well as Business Rules Engine (BRE). In this post we’re going beyond a BRMS to delivering a solution that helps enterprises both automate and understand decisions – the InRule Decision...
by Dustin Oxford | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Force.com platform, Force.com platform, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices, Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks
Your rule application is like your house: both benefit from a strong foundation. For rule applications, the entity structure (also called the schema) is the foundation. The schema is made up of one or more entities. The entities are often related to each other, but...
by Dan Gardiner | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Programming, Programming, Software Development, Software Development
Welcome back! For those of you just joining us, this is part two of a pair of blog posts discussing CI/CD with rule apps – you can find the previous post here. Part Two: irCatalog Check-In Triggered, Catalog-Sourced Rule App, Promoting Pipeline Scenario: For this...
by Dan Gardiner | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Programming, Programming, Software Development, Software Development
Introduction One question that is regularly brought up during customer training sessions is how to integrate Rule Applications into a company’s existing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery or Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. CI/CD has become standard practice...
by Product Management Team | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Analytics, Analytics, Good Beginnings, Good Beginnings
Every project needs a north star. When we kick off a “Discovery Workshop” the first step is to agree what that star looks like. Getting there takes time. Our process involves taking the project team through critical assumptions—those things that if true, would mean...
by Dan Reynolds | Last updated on Mar 25, 2025 | All, All, Analytics, Analytics, Business Management, Business Management
Imagine you are taking a sailboat out to sea. While the shoreline is still in view, it is fairly straight forward to course-correct through trial and error using the land as a reference. However, it gets much more complicated when you can no longer see the shore....
by Dan Gardiner | Last updated on Mar 26, 2024 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Software Development, Software Development, Tools, Tools
In the evolving landscape of software development and business rules engines, a pivotal debate emerges: rule applications versus traditional coding. This discussion is not just about technological preferences but represents a significant shift in how organizations...
by Product Management Team | Last updated on Mar 25, 2025 | All, All, Good Beginnings, Good Beginnings
More than half of our rule authors identify as non-developers or business analysts. That’s great news for the business since they are closest to the problem. At the same time, it makes honing your team’s rule authoring practice critical. Decisions (including all of...
by Dan Gardiner | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices, Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks
A rose, by any other name, might be a cactus. If you come from a development background, you know that there’s an incredible amount of discussion about the importance of naming variables. Seriously, Googling “the importance of naming variables”...
