Reduce Dependency on IT
Reduce dependency on IT
Let business teams make updates on their own while InRule keeps things fast, secure, and compliant.
Enable faster decision changes
Business teams often wait on IT for even small updates, slowing their ability to react to market or regulatory changes. InRule lets analysts adjust decision logic directly, while IT maintains the right guardrails for governance and integration.
Simplified modeling
Business language modeling lets non-technical users create and manage rules, minimizing misinterpretation and reducing IT involvement. With InRule Vocabulary, rules are written in the language of the business, ensuring clarity from design to execution. This makes it easier to trust your rules and adapt quickly.
Trusted rules
Versioning, testing, and validation features safeguard accuracy and compliance while giving IT confidence in every change. Business users can test effectively with irVerify, ensuring rules achieve their intended outcomes without introducing errors.
Seamless deployment
Updates move quickly from design to production, minimizing disruption while ensuring audit-ready transparency. Built-in safeguards and automation help teams deploy with confidence, knowing that updates won’t require costly rollbacks.
Read the InRule Total Economic Impact Report.
Align IT and business for agility
Organizations often struggle when every decision change requires IT cycles. Backlogs mount, response to regulations slows, and competitive edge is lost. InRule solves this by putting intuitive modeling tools in the hands of business users while giving IT the guardrails to maintain standards, security, and integrations.
The result is a balanced model: business owns agility, IT ensures compliance and scalability. Together, they deliver faster, safer, and more reliable outcomes.
Business agility in practice
Capture requirements
Analysts capture requirements directly in business language using Vocabulary, ensuring policies are clear and aligned without waiting on IT to translate them.
Validate and test
Changes are validated with irVerify and regression testing, reducing the chance of introducing errors before deployment.
Governed deployment
Version control and rollback features provide safe governance, so updates can move into production quickly but with confidence.
Bring rules to your data
The runtime execution engine delivers decisions in the low tens of milliseconds, while the JavaScript runtime allows rules to run in browsers, mobile apps, or Snowflake procedures.
Trace and audit
Visual Trace and Rule Application Reports record how every decision was made, creating audit-ready transparency for compliance and stakeholder confidence.
By utilizing the InRule rule authoring tools across our development and business departments we have been able to eliminate a lot of ambiguity between what the business users want and what the developers deliver.
When business teams wait on IT backlogs for updates, decisions lag behind regulations and customer needs. Empowering them speeds responsiveness without increasing risk.
Yes. Many modern rules platforms provide business language modeling so non-technical users can create and maintain rules directly, reducing the risk of misinterpretation.
IT remains responsible for governance, security, and integration. Guardrails such as versioning, testing, and approval workflows keep decision changes compliant and aligned with enterprise standards.
Not at all. It allows IT to focus on higher-value initiatives like architecture, integration, and innovation, while routine rule updates are handled by business teams.
It’s common for large organizations to have more than one rules engine (due to acquisitions or departmental needs). In practice, teams often select a primary platform for new projects while letting existing engines continue to run where they’re already embedded.
Full consolidation isn’t always practical. Many enterprises choose a “go-forward” strategy: new projects are built in a single chosen platform to avoid further fragmentation, while legacy systems are phased out gradually or left in place until retirement.
Organizations often start with projects that need faster change cycles, involve regulatory pressure, or have the highest IT backlog. These are good candidates because they benefit most from shorter turnaround and stronger governance.
The biggest risks are duplicated logic, inconsistent policies, and extra IT overhead. Governance becomes more complex, and audits may take longer.
- Business-friendly modeling so analysts can manage rules directly
- Governance tools for versioning, validation, and approvals
- Testing features to prevent errors before deployment
- Integration options that fit your architecture
- Deployment flexibility (on-premises, cloud, or hybrid)
- Clear audit trails and transparency for compliance
Resources
Related resources
Deliver great service experiences fast – without the complexity of traditional ITSM solutions. Accelerate critical development work, eliminate toil, and deploy changes with ease.
