You're reading from AI and Business Rule Engines for Excel Power Users Capture and scale your business knowledge into the cloud – with Microsoft 365, Decision Models, and AI tools from IBM and Red Hat

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804619544

Length 386 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Power Query

Tools

Excel

Concepts

Information Management

Authors (2):

Paul Browne (GBP)

ALEX PORCELLI

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:The Problem with Excel, and Why Rule-Based AI Can Be the Solution FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Wrestling with Excel? You Are Not Alone

3. Chapter 2: Choosing an AI and Business Rules Engine – Why Drools and KIE?

4. Chapter 3: Your First Business Rule with the Online KIE Sandbox

5. Part 2: Writing Business Rules and Decision Models – with Real-Life Examples

6. Chapter 4: More Decision Models, Business Rules, and Decision Tables

7. Chapter 5: Sharing and Deploying Decision Models Using OpenShift and GitHub

8. Chapter 6: Calling Business Rules from Excel Using Power Query

9. Part 3: Extending Excel, Decision Models, and Business Process Automation into a Complete Enterprise Solution

10. Chapter 7: Using Business Rules in Excel with Visual Basic, Script Lab, or Office Scripts

11. Chapter 8: Using AI and Decision Services Within Power Automate Workflows

12. Chapter 9: Advanced Expressions, Decision Models, and Testing

13. Part 4: Next Steps in AI, Machine Learning, and Rule Engines

14. Chapter 10: Scaling Rules in Business Central with Docker and the Cloud

15. Chapter 11: Rules-Based AI and Machine Learning AI – Combining the Best of Both

16. Chapter 12: What Next? A Look inside Neural Networks, Enterprise Projects, Advanced Rules, and the Rule Engine

17. Index

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18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix A - Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications

Introduction to macros and VBA

1. Appendix B - Testing Using VSCode, Azure, and GitHub Codespaces

2. Appendix C - Troubleshooting Docker

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

advanced DRL rules

in VS Code and Business Central 319, 320

Agile 230

Any data type 60

Apache 2.0 licence (open source) 27

Artificial Intelligence (AI) 11-13

examples 12, 16

machine learning 13

natural language processing 14

rules 14-16

type 11

automated cloud flow 190

AutoML tools 303

Azure cloud

containers, deploying into 264

Azure Container Instance (ACI) 264

Azure Machine Learning

models, training 277-286

setting up 277-281

backpropagation 302

Bill of Materials example

linking 229

boxed expressions 51

build tool 333

Business Central 233-240

advanced DRL rules 319, 320

Decision Model editor 254

machine learning, executing 310

projects, within spaces 251

rule models, executing 310

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