Red Piranha as a template enterprise project
The main focus of this book is to show you as an Excel power user how to leverage the power of a business rules engine. That gives you a workable solution, but it is likely that your decision models will sooner or later be deployed as part of a larger enterprise system. That’s a good thing! Remember the full enterprise system diagram we saw back in Chapter 2? Your decision models won’t need to change, but now they will have a more robust infrastructure around them.
As an Excel power user or business rules author, you don’t need to know the full detail of how to do this. But since you’re investing your time in this area, it is very reassuring to see how it can be done. The section will show you a working example of such an enterprise system using the Red Piranha project.
Before we start, we have two other reasons for introducing the Red Piranha project:
- Red Piranha shows you another way of integrating...