Business Management Archives

Improving Business Decisions for Better Outcomes

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, making poor business decisions can have

Katie Knox

02/18/2021

Introducing: Virtual InRule User Community Meeting 2020!

I’ve always enjoyed the opportunity to sit back and learn something new. As a youth, the classroom and the athletic field were the places I absorbed the most knowledge. Today, it’s books, podcasts, blogs, webinars, and meetings with my peers. I love taking the opportunity to be quiet, forget about everything else, and focus on a lesson from an

Peter Fudalej

09/24/2020

No Values: Much Ado About Nothing

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 cover which

Robert Eaman

09/15/2020

Survey Says…Use InRule for Questionnaires!

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 an online tax submission

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Product Management Team

08/04/2020

Managing Environment-Specific Configuration

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 fit the needs of the vast majority of InRule customers. Today,

Dan Gardiner

07/28/2020

The Portable Inline Table

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 there are a few powerful use cases for storing your

Chris Berg

07/22/2020

I Concur! InRule Simplifies the Management of Expense Approval and Value Added Tax (VAT) Decision Automation

I’ve been at InRule for nearly six (!) years and I always love to learn about customers using InRule in non-traditional ways. Most recently, I learned that one of the “Big 4 accounting firms” is using InRule to automate decisions around expense management and invoicing. The initiative, taking place at