AI and Business Rule Engines for Excel Power Users

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Your First Business Rule with the Online KIE Sandbox

In the first two chapters of this book, we looked at the problems that you often face when working with Excel, and how AI tools such as rule engines (in particular, KIE and Drools) can help solve them. But this is a practical book, so it’s about time we got hands-on and showed you how to write rules using the online KIE tools.

In this chapter, we’ll write our first business rule – a variation on the classic Hello World. We’ll use the KIE Sandbox Extended Services to allow us to run the rules we write in the online editor. We’ll introduce Decision Models as a visual format for capturing decisions and business rules and begin to expand our first rule so we can glimpse the power of the rules-based ...