Summary

This chapter bridged the Excel world that you were already familiar with and the world of AI, business rules, and decision services that you learned about in previous chapters. To do this, we did the following:

• Introduced five different ways to link rules, AI, decision models, and Excel.
• We learned about machine-readable web pages using REST and how to link to our decision service using Swagger – a more human-friendly link to Kogito decision services.
• We called our product recommendation decision service using Power Query. The step-by-step examples we gave are a solution that you can expand on for your own work.

Even if you stopped reading this book now, you would already know how to untangle Excel spreadsheets and move business rules into an external decision service.

So what is left to cover in the second half of this book? We’ll cover techniques to do this in a better, faster, more flexible, and more scalable way. We’ll start...