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AI and Business Rule Engines for Excel Power Users
AI and Business Rule Engines for Excel Power Users

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

By Alex Porcelli , Paul Browne
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Book Mar 2023 386 pages 1st Edition
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Publication date : Mar 31, 2023
Length 386 pages
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Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9781804619544
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AI and Business Rule Engines for Excel Power Users

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

The first part of the book builds the case, showing how an AI and business rules approach can help solve the problems you are encountering in Excel.

This section includes the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, Wrestling with Excel? You Are Not Alone, outlines the problems you may be facing in Excel, but reassures you that you are not the only person to encounter these issues and shows how an AI-based rule approach can help.
  • Chapter 2, Choosing an AI and Business Rules Engine – Why KIE and Drools?, shows why the rules engine and AI tools from the KIE project are the best choice for you as an Excel user and welcomes you to an open community supported by IBM and Red Hat where you can get ongoing support.
  • Chapter 3, Your First Business Rule with the Online KIE Sandbox, dives into writing business rules and creating your first decision model in the online KIE Sandbox using a classic Hello World example.
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Key benefits

  • Explore the business rule tools by implementing real-world examples to write sophisticated rules
  • Discover how decision services solve current business challenges using AI
  • Combine rules with workflows and scripting to deploy a cloud-based production environment

Description

Microsoft Excel is widely adopted across diverse industries, but Excel Power Users often encounter limitations such as complex formulas, obscure business knowledge, and errors from using outdated sheets. They need a better enterprise-level solution, and this book introduces Business rules combined with the power of AI to tackle the limitations of Excel. This guide will give you a roadmap to link KIE (an industry-standard open-source application) to Microsoft’s business process automation tools, such as Power Automate, Power Query, Office Script, Forms, VBA, Script Lab, and GitHub. You’ll dive into the graphical Decision Modeling standard including decision tables, FEEL expressions, and advanced business rule editing and testing. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to share your business knowledge as graphical models, deploy and execute these models in the cloud (with Azure and OpenShift), link them back to Excel, and then execute them as an end-to-end solution removing human intervention. You’ll be equipped to solve your Excel queries and start using the next generation of Microsoft Office tools.

What you will learn

Use KIE and Drools decision services to write AI-based business rules Link Business Rules to Excel using Power Query, Script Lab, Office Script, and VBA Build an end-to-end workflow with Microsoft Power Automate and Forms while integrating it with Excel and Kogito Collaborate on and deploy your decision models using OpenShift, Azure, and GitHub Discover advanced editing using the graphical Decision Model Notation (DMN) and testing tools Use Kogito to combine AI solutions with Excel

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Publication date : Mar 31, 2023
Length 386 pages
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Table of Contents

22 Chapters
Preface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 1:The Problem with Excel, and Why Rule-Based AI Can Be the Solution Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Wrestling with Excel? You Are Not Alone Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Choosing an AI and Business Rules Engine – Why Drools and KIE? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Your First Business Rule with the Online KIE Sandbox Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2: Writing Business Rules and Decision Models – with Real-Life Examples Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: More Decision Models, Business Rules, and Decision Tables Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Sharing and Deploying Decision Models Using OpenShift and GitHub Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Calling Business Rules from Excel Using Power Query Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 3: Extending Excel, Decision Models, and Business Process Automation into a Complete Enterprise Solution Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Using Business Rules in Excel with Visual Basic, Script Lab, or Office Scripts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Using AI and Decision Services Within Power Automate Workflows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Advanced Expressions, Decision Models, and Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 4: Next Steps in AI, Machine Learning, and Rule Engines Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Scaling Rules in Business Central with Docker and the Cloud Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Rules-Based AI and Machine Learning AI – Combining the Best of Both Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: What Next? A Look inside Neural Networks, Enterprise Projects, Advanced Rules, and the Rule Engine Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Books You May Enjoy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Appendix A - Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Appendix B - Testing Using VSCode, Azure, and GitHub Codespaces Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Appendix C - Troubleshooting Docker Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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