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Power Users often encounter limitations such as complex formulas, obscure business knowledge, and errors from using outdated sheets.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.
publication date
2023-03-31
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
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
approach
Complete with step-by-step explanations on how to use the Red Hat Business Rules Engine to give practical working examples that can be extended to solve actual business user needs.
audience
This 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.
short description
This book helps you progress to the next generation of Excel tools, using Business Rules, Decision Services, and AI to automate mundane tasks and build more robust solutions. With the help of this book, you’ll be able to integrate tools such as Kogito, KIE, Drools, Office Script, Power Query, Power Automate, Microsoft Forms, and VBA to build end-to-end OpenShift and Azure cloud-based solutions.
subtitle
Capture and scale your business knowledge into the cloud – with Microsoft 365, Decision Models, and AI tools from IBM and Red Hat
keywords
machine learning, microsoft azure, power query excel, Vs code book, Vs code, microsoft excel data analysis and business modeling, ms excel cheat sheet, workflow automation with microsoft power automate, excel modeling tools, business rule engines and ai for excel power users
Product ISBN
9781804619544
