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AI and Business Rule Engines for Excel Power Users

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804619544
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paul Browne (GBP) Paul Browne (GBP)
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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 18. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A - Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications 1. Appendix B - Testing Using VSCode, Azure, and GitHub Codespaces 2. Appendix C - Troubleshooting Docker

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...
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