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AI and Business Rule Engines for Excel Power Users

By : Paul Browne
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AI and Business Rule Engines for Excel Power Users

By: Paul Browne

Overview of this book

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Power Users often encounter limitations such as complex formulas, obscure business knowledge, and errors from using outdated sheets.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.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1:The Problem with Excel, and Why Rule-Based AI Can Be the Solution
5
Part 2: Writing Business Rules and Decision Models – with Real-Life Examples
9
Part 3: Extending Excel, Decision Models, and Business Process Automation into a Complete Enterprise Solution
13
Part 4: Next Steps in AI, Machine Learning, and Rule Engines
Appendix A - Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

advanced DRL rules

in VS Code and Business Central 319, 320

Agile 230

Any data type 60

Apache 2.0 licence (open source) 27

Artificial Intelligence (AI) 11-13

examples 12, 16

machine learning 13

natural language processing 14

rules 14-16

type 11

automated cloud flow 190

AutoML tools 303

Azure cloud

containers, deploying into 264

Azure Container Instance (ACI) 264

Azure Machine Learning

models, training 277-286

setting up 277-281

B

backpropagation 302

Bill of Materials example

linking 229

boxed expressions 51

build tool 333

Business Central 233-240

advanced DRL rules 319, 320

Decision Model editor 254

machine learning, executing 310

projects, within spaces 251

rule models, executing 310

Scenario Simulation...