Asynchronous business rules
Asynchronous business rules execute after the after business rules. However, the server returns a response to the client after the after business rules, which means that when the form reloads, the results of any after business rules will be shown, but not the results of asynchronous business rules. Asynchronous rules will be run on the server at a later time; usually only a few seconds later, when the server has resources available to run it.
Asynchronous business rules are generally the best way to update records that are not the "current' record, and which don't need to be displayed when the form reloads. It would be possible to accomplish that using after business rules, but that would not be the most performance-effective ...
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