AI and Business Rule Engines for Excel Power Users
Packt Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-80461-954-4 (ISBN)
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Key Features
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
Book DescriptionMicrosoft 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Power Users often encounter limitations such as complex formulas, obscure business knowledge, and errors from using outdated sheets.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
Who this book is forThis book is for Excel power users, business users, and business analysts looking for a tool to capture their knowledge and deploy it as part of enterprise-grade systems. Working proficiency with MS Excel is required. Basic knowledge of web technologies and scripting would be an added advantage.
Paul Browne is a product and program manager currently working for Europe’s largest VC by deal flow. Most recently, he led a team from three partner institutions that won an EFMD award for ecosystem development, training over 100 eurozone companies to implement digital solutions together. This continues Paul’s previous work leading business and technical projects in the public, financial, and life science sectors across Ireland, the UK, the US, the Netherlands, Belgium, and New Zealand. Paul’s qualifications include a degree in European business and French from Ulster University and more recent certifications in finance (ACCA), procurement (CIPS), and business strategy (ESMT). He has technical certifications from Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM and holds a master’s in advanced software engineering from University College Dublin. Paul is the author of JBoss Drools Business Rules, by Packt Publishing, and has lectured in Excel and Visual Basic at the third level.
Table of Contents
Wrestling with Excel? You Are Not Alone
Choosing an AI and Business Rules Engine – Why Drools and KIE?
Your First Business Rule with the Online KIE Sandbox
More Decision Models, Business Rules, and Decision Tables
Sharing and Deploying Decision Models Using OpenShift and GitHub
Calling Business Rules from Excel Using Power Query
Using Business Rules in Excel with Visual Basic, Script Lab, or Office Scripts
Using AI and Decision Services Within Power Automate Workflows
Advanced Expressions, Decision Models, and Testing
Scaling Rules in Business Central with Docker and the Cloud
Rules-Based AI and Machine Learning AI – Combining the Best of Both
What Next? A Look inside Neural Networks, Enterprise Projects, Advanced Rules, and the Rule Engine
Appendix A, Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications
Appendix B, Testing Using VSCode, Azure, and GitHub Codespaces
Appendix C, Troubleshooting Docker
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.04.2023 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Alex Porcelli |
| Verlagsort | Birmingham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Office Programme ► Excel |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80461-954-X / 180461954X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80461-954-4 / 9781804619544 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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