Five different ways to link rules, AI, decision models, and Excel
At the end of Chapter 5, we saw that KIE and Kogito autogenerate a web page based on our decision model. We’ll soon see that there is a machine-readable version of this page that we can link to Excel. That page won’t change no matter what technique we use. Figure 6.1 shows some of the ways we can make this link.
Figure 6.1– Many different ways of linking Excel to our decision service
You may be familiar with some of the techniques listed in this diagram – even if you’re not, we’ll run through them in the next section. The key point is that no matter which technique you choose, the core Kogito decision service (including your business rules and AI) stays the same. That allows you to choose the technique that works best for you now, knowing that your investment in decision models is still valid even as you evolve toward other tools.
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