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InRule Technology User Stories
Learn how customers have used InRule to streamline the authoring of complex business logic, creating more adaptable and efficient in-house applications and commercial software products.

Thinking In Rules – Why You Should Care About Business Rules
In a difficult economy, it's tougher than ever to keep up with the changing needs of a business. Business rule technology is helping organizations manage complex, frequently changing business logic more effectively while allowing them to improve and expedite decision making processes. "Thinking in Rules" delivers measurable value today by leveraging the knowledge of subject matter experts, enabling improved compliance, reducing development efforts, and increasing competitive edge.

Business Decision Management: How Business Logic Automation Delivers Value Today
{or If You Want a Hot Cup of Coffee, Can You Wait to Boil the Ocean?}
With an increasing focus on short terms results, most organizations find that rather than boiling the ocean with the concept of “Enterprise” Decision Management, focusing on Business Decision Management can deliver immediate results. This white paper describes how a Business Rule Engine helps organizations move toward an Enterprise Logic Infrastructure while immediately improving the quality, consistency, and agility of decision‐making, automating key decision‐making processes, and reducing application development costs.

Quantify the Value of a Business Rule Engine
This white paper will help you understand and quantify year to year cost differences between traditional and rule-enabled development. Using proof points from real-world implementations and customer experiences, the paper provides an in-depth analysis of both IT and business costs and benefits. RuleVantage is an InRule-powered application that puts the principles of the white paper into practice, so you can calculate for yourself the costs and savings of implementing rule technology.

Getting to the Handshake: Rules for Effective IT/Business Collaboration
A high level walkthrough of the process successfully used with clients to reach an agreement for communication between subject matter experts and developers. Learn how clients have bridged the gaps that exist between IT coding business logic and users driving dynamic applications.

Keys to Improving Business Processes and Adopting SOA
This white paper examines how a Business Rule Engine can improve Business Process Management by delivering more agile business processes, provide a practical approach to a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), and enable effective collaboration between business and IT. In exploring these topics, the paper discusses how technology alone cannot change the way an organization does business.

Best Practices for Implementing Dynamic Decisioning with Rule Technology
Dynamic Decisioning gives subject matter experts control over the rules, logic, and calculations at the heart of essential operations. It involves both IT and business users and results in agile applications that adapt to changing business requirements. This paper offers a process perspective on designing and implementing dynamic business logic.

Business Technology at the Crossroads: The Convergence of Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, and Business Rules
Organizations have been using Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, and Business Rule Engines successfully as standalone technologies for several years. Today a number of factors are driving demand to use these technologies together. This paper explains the uses of each technology and the synergies between them.

Strategies for Building Dynamic Business Applications with SOA and Rule Technology
These pragmatic strategies will get you started turning essential everyday decision making activities into dynamic decision services delivered via rules technology and SOA.