Solutions by Industry

InRule business rule engine is a "horizontal" technology – in other words, it can be used for a variety of purposes in any industry. However, some industries have been early adopters of business rule technology, with a number of challenges that lend themselves to being solved using rules.

We have listed some of those here:

• Insurance
• Banking and Finance
• Healthcare
• Government
• Manufacturing

Other uses may surprise you, and give you some ideas about how to apply rule technology to improve the agility of your business applications!

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Insurance

Typical Applications

• Automated Underwriting
• Rating
• Claims Management

InRule Solves These Key Issues

• Control costs through automating routine tasks
• Reduce insurance risks by promoting consistency between rules and business conditions
• Increase speed and flexibility by getting analysts, actuaries and underwriters closer to the rules that systems use
• Provide a framework for rapidly developing dynamic customer facing systems
• Make the logic in calculation intensive applications easier to create, manage, and maintain
• Expedite underwriting, rating, and claims management decisions

With These Powerful Features and Tools

• The combination of irAuthor's built-in spreadsheet-like functions and business language and decision table controls makes it easy for insurance experts to author and maintain rules. While irVerify allows analysts the ability to test rules as they write them.
• InRule's powerful application interface, called irSDK, and the ability to store information about rules and data structures in irAuthor provides a framework for building custom authoring applications and dynamic user interfaces. This allows customers to have a richer experience since user interfaces respond dynamically to their answers.
• InRule's granular permissioning model helps ensure that only the people who should have access to certain rules do.
• irSDK makes it seamless to integrate InRule with BPM tools so that calculation and rule intensive activities such as underwriting decisions can be called from longer-running workflow processes
• InRule is designed and optimized for .NET providing high performance and easy integration

Customer Examples

• Aon
• Fyfe
• L&T Infotech
• The Doctors Company
• BCBSNE
  

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Banking and Financial Services

Typical Applications

• Loan Origination
• Pro-forma trading and investment models
• Fraud detection

InRule Solves These Key Issues

• Lenders and originators often need quick answers in a highly competitive lending environment. InRule helps automate traditionally manual activities and is able to work with disparate systems.
• Financial Services firms need to get new products and services out to market quickly. By giving control of system logic to the people who best understand these new offerings, systems are implemented better and faster.
• Financial Services systems need to perform complex calculations quickly.

With These Powerful Features and Tools

• The combination of irAuthor's built-in spreadsheet-like functions and business language and decision table controls makes it easy for analysts and underwriters to author and maintain rules. While irVerify allows provides the ability to test rules, with no setup, right from the authoring environment.
• irAuthor provides over 100 functions out-of-the-box with the ability to add custom functions from a .NET function library. This way financial analysts have the tools they need to build complex financial models. InRule's unique and powerful rule engine is specifically tuned to perform calculations quickly and efficiently.
• InRule's granular permissioning model helps ensure that only the people who should have access to certain rules do.
• irSDK makes it seamless to integrate InRule with BPM tools so that calculation and rule intensive activities such as loan underwriting and trading decisions can be called from longer-running workflow processes
• InRule is designed and optimized for .NET providing high performance and easy integration

Customer Examples

• FirstAgain
• Softrax

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Healthcare

Typical Applications

• Claims adjudication
• Prior Authorization
• Enrollment

InRule Solves These Key Issues

• Frequently changing business logic due to regulation changes, market changes, etc.
• Requirement to customize applications for multiple clients
• Automation of decision-making within processes

With These Powerful Features and Tools

• InRule's easy-to-use business language editor and decision table controls can be used by business analysts, medical professionals, and claims analysts to easily create complex rules without custom programming. All rules can be easily tested from the authoring environment with irVerify.
• Enables management of rules from development through production with granular permission, check-in/check-out and version control using irCatalog.
• Improves business process agility and interoperability with an SOA approach.
• irSDK makes it seamless to integrate InRule with BPM tools so that rule intensive activities such as authorizations and medical bill repricing can be called from longer-running workflow processes.
• InRule is designed and optimized for .NET providing high performance and easy integration

Customer & Partner Examples

• BCBSNE
• Largest Medicaid Processor
• The Doctors Company

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Government

Typical Applications

• Benefits Eligibility
• Budgeting
• Tax calculation
• eForms Initiatives

InRule Solves These Key Issues

• Administrators who best understand laws and relevant government acts need direct control over the rules by which their applications operate
• Budgeting and tax-related systems require complex rules and mathematical calculations that tend to change with each new budget year or tax code revision.
• A date-based history of rules must be retained and often often old rules have to be applied to transactions.
• Government processes often have some very complex activities that must be automated to comply with efficiency mandates

With These Powerful Features and Tools

• InRule's easy-to-use business language editor and decision table controls can be used by analysts and government contractors to easily create complex rules without custom programming. All rules can be easily tested from the authoring environment with irVerify.
• irAuthor's built-in calculation support and InRule's superior calculation engine make authoring and execution of budgetary and tax-related calculations intuitive.
• Enables management of rules from development through production with granular permission, check-in/check-out and version control using irCatalog.
• Improves business process agility and interoperability with an SOA approach.
• irSDK makes it seamless to integrate InRule with BPM tools so that rule intensive activities such as program eligibility and tax audit reviews can be called from longer-running processes.
• InRule is designed and optimized for .NET providing high performance and easy integration

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Manufacturing

Typical Applications

• Job costing
• Materials tracking
• Contract management and billing

InRule Solves These Key Issues

• Lenders and originators often need quick answers in a highly competitive lending environment. InRule helps automate traditionally manual activities and is able to work with disparate systems.
• Financial Services firms need to get new products and services out to market quickly. By giving control of system logic to the people who best understand these new offerings, systems are implemented better and faster.
• Financial Services systems need to perform complex calculations quickly.
• Billing applications usually require numerous rules for correctly adhering to contractual agreements and complex mathematical calculations for correctly applying pricing models. Analysts who have a good understanding of spreadsheet applications should have no trouble using irAuthor's built-in functions right out-of-the-box.
• Job-costing and Materials Tracking usually require the ability to model various scenarios using complex calculations.
• New products as well as constantly changing supplier and customer agreements require systems that can be changed quickly and easily by the people who best understand the business needs.

With These Powerful Features and Tools

• InRule's easy-to-use business language editor and decision table controls can be used by estimators, business analysts and account managers to easily create complex rules without custom programming. All rules can be easily tested from the authoring environment with irVerify.
• irAuthor's built-in calculation support and InRule's superior calculation engine make authoring and execution of complex calculations intuitive.
• Enables management of rules from development through production with granular permission, check-in/check-out and version control using irCatalog.
• Improves business process agility and interoperability with an SOA approach.
• irSDK makes it seamless to integrate InRule with BPM tools so that rule intensive activities such as program eligibility and tax audit reviews can be called from longer-running processes.
• InRule is designed and optimized for .NET providing high performance and easy integration

 

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Other Uses

Awards Programs

• Typical Applications

• Frequent Flyer Programs, Mileage Program Crediting
• Telemarketing and other Promotional Awards Crediting and Recognition

• Challenges Addressed by InRule

• Constantly evolving promotions (e.g., double credits for a specific market or limited time, new products or corporate objectives)
• Rollup credits for tiered sales teams
• Changing partnerships for awards and bonuses
• Need for easy and fast modification of award crediting
• Unique rule structures: based on geography, position (agent, supervisor), incentive accelerators, etc.

• Using the Power of InRule

• Intuitive interface for changing rules
• Rule changes can be deployed real time - within 10 minutes
• Rule collections and structures such as "While" loops handle processing for multi-tiered award calculations
• Web accessible

Fleet Management

• Typical Applications

• Vehicle title and registration

• Challenges Addressed by InRule

• Complex regulations for vehicle registration and renewal
• Regulations for fees, emissions, documentation, etc. vary by location and vehicle type

• Using the Power of InRule

• Rules manage complex decision making, determine which regulations apply for a location; what a driver or corporation needs to supply for a new or renewed vehicle registration, etc.
  

Preference Matching Programs

• Typical Applications

• Roommate assignment/selection for universities and travel programs
• Matching services for finding goods (your next sports car) and services (finding the perfect dog-walker)
  
  

Challenges Addressed by InRule

• Prioritizing requirements and preferences
• Compliance with privacy laws and other regulations
• Unique rules based on geography, distance willing to travel, etc.

Using the Power of InRule

• Consistent application of rules to ensure compliance
• Intuitive interface lets subject matter experts set up rules
• Web accessible

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