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...
No Values: Much Ado About Nothing
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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...
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...
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...
Sailing to Success with Data-Driven Decisions
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...
Good Beginnings: Agreeing on the Problem
Not all business problems are obvious to everyone on the team. Agreeing on problem priority is equally troublesome. Decision management begins with...
Good Beginnings: Leadership Practice
How a rules project is led has as much to do with its potential success as any other consideration. An effective leader can rally a team towards a...
Good Beginnings: Discovering Rule Authors
Over the years I have interviewed many rule authors and found they come in a lot of different packages. I tend to group them into three categories:...
Why I Consider InRule to be the “Boring Code” Killer
I joined the InRule Technology team as a sales engineer in the latter half of 2017 and since then several people have asked me why I chose to pursue...
Back to Basics II: What is a Business Rules Management System?
And… we’re back with part two of our Back to Basics blog series! For those of you who missed part one, where I explained what a Business Rules...
Bridging the Gap Between Business Analysis and Technology
Computers are useless: they can only give you answers. Questions are what matter. --Pablo Picasso While computers obviously aren’t “useless,”...
Business Rules for Configure Price Quote (CPQ)
I can pretty much go anywhere nowadays and find something where business rules come into play. Take, for example, my recent experience shopping for...
How Low-Code Solutions Transform Business Rule Management
Mission Impossible: Hard-coding Low-code platforms have been getting quite a bit of publicity, particularly with the release of Forrester’s report,...
Transparency and Execution
When someone I care about is in the hospital, I want to be with them. Maybe I can help make them more comfortable, maybe watch over them while they...
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