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          • Empower technical and business users to integrate predictive logic with automated decisions – without programming effort. By isolating business logic and predictive outcomes from application code, InRule makes your enterprise decisions more transparent. The result? Greater agility and less risk. We’re passionate about making automation accessible – let us show you how.

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          • Your organization has its own unique business needs, budget and resources. That’s why we offer a range of deployment options to meet your requirements – whether in your cloud, our cloud or on-premises.

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          • Whether on-prem, in the cloud or via mobile, you can run rules anywhere using InRule. We offer the most options for decision execution, providing your organization with unprecedented agility and scalability. Discover how to run rules anywhere.

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          • Gain even greater value from your existing technology investments. InRule integrates with today’s most widely deployed technologies – ensuring consistency in logic across the enterprise and allowing business teams who understand the requirements best to manage the decision logic.

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          • Your organization can realize tremendous value by deploying InRule for some very specific applications. Time and again, our customers leverage our Decision Platform for these applications – with great success. We’d love to help you do the same!

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          • InRule is widely used within certain industries, especially those that are heavily regulated with frequently changing decision logic. Learn how InRule can help you automate the mission-critical decisions that power your business while reducing risk and improving transparency.

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          • Our professional services team is ready to serve as an extension of your team. We’ll keep your goals at the forefront while providing expertise and insight to realize project success. Let’s work together to design, develop and deploy a decision management system that meets the unique needs of your organization.

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          • Set your team up for success with training conducted by InRule’s experienced consultants. Our team has extensive experience bringing rule applications to production. We’d love to teach you what we know!

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            Workshops help lay the foundation for project success. Our experienced facilitators will work closely with your team to ensure there is consensus about project goals, objectives and what “success” looks like. No matter where you are in your decision automation journey, we have a workshop that can help improve your business outcomes.

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          • Since 2002, InRulians have been passionate about making automation accessible. IT and business personnel rely on our Decision Platform to increase productivity, grow revenue and enhance customer service. With our ‘author first’ approach, we empower both technical and non-technical rule authors to write and manage rules.

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          • Our User Community is comprised of some of the largest public and private sector enterprises around the world. We’re proud to empower these organizations with the ability to leverage the power of computing without the complexity of programming. We’d love to do the same for your organization.

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          • Who has been successful with InRule? What types of project have they used InRule for? Review our library of case studies to learn how InRule provides value to enterprises across a range of industries.

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          • InRule’s videos offer a deep dive into our decision platform and rules engine, as well as other hot topics across various industries and applications. Check out our video library and learn more about how InRule can help your organization automate the decisions that power your business.

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          • There’s nothing better than real-world experience. InRule’s white papers bring the power of knowledge to you. Our white papers are filled with in-depth information about using decision platform and rules engine technology to help your organization realize the power of computing without the complexity of programming.

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          • Missed a live webinar? You’ll find it here for viewing at your convenience. Meet our subject matter experts and our special guests and hear directly from them about their experience with InRule and the benefits it can bring to enterprises across a range of verticals.

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          • These resources don't fit nicely into our other categories, but that doesn't make them any less valuable! From eBooks to guides, to research, and more, you're sure to find something here to help you better understand InRule and the value our decision platform can provide to your organization. Let us show you.

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Loading and Using Third Party ADO.NET Data Providers

One of the great things about InRule is that there are numerous spots within the product where you can extend native functionalities to be able to easily support integrating with new things that we haven’t added into the core product (yet). One of those areas is around integrating with databases.

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Dan Gardiner

03/04/2021

What Rules Uncover: Horror Stories From Mistranslated Logic

My job on the ROAD Services Team at InRule involves connecting with a variety of InRule users, evaluating their business requirements, and turning those requirements into functional rules in irAuthor. Over the years, I’ve run across a variety of interesting situations, and I wanted to share a few (fully sanitized)

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Robert Eaman

02/12/2021

Using User Defined Functions Felicitously

Like many InRule users, my background is in software development. As a result, I often find myself taking whatever means I can to bypass low-code tools: When I need to make changes to a WordPress website, I inevitably become annoyed at the rich text editor and end up making changes

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Dan Gardiner

08/25/2020

Guidelines for Organizing Business Rules

In irAuthor, as with most software with structured logic, when you decide to implement a new application or a new addition to an existing application, you must make several decisions: What will my rules do? What are the intended inputs and outputs of these rules? Are they tied to a

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Robert Eaman

03/10/2020

Lines in the Sand: Defining the Boundary Between Rules and Code

When introducing a rule engine to the IT side of the aisle, one of the questions that often comes up is how to codify the distinction between logic that should be programmed directly into an application or CRM platform, and logic that should be written in a rule application on

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Dan Gardiner

06/18/2019

Rule Testing Part 1: Testing Tools Demystified

Testing rules in a rule engine is not quite the same as testing code. Verifying correct behavior and results in simple rule applications can be as simple as a quick glance at irVerify and the Rule Engine Feedback tab. But more complicated rule applications take the place of so many

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Robert Eaman

04/25/2019

Legacy Modernization with InRule and AveriSource

Legacy mai­­­nframe systems are the original pattern for ransomware: your business depends on this system and if you stop shoveling money into it, your business comes to a screeching halt. What other choice do you have? Paying exorbitant maintenance expenses just keep it running; making improvements to keep up with

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Dan Reynolds

10/03/2018

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