AI and Business Rule Engines for Excel Power Users
Год издания: 2023
Автор: Browne P.
Издательство: Packt
ISBN: 9781804619544
Язык: Английский
Формат: EPUB
Качество: Издательский макет или текст (eBook)
Интерактивное оглавление: Да
Количество страниц: 386
Описание: 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Power Users often encounter limitations such as complex formulas, obscure business knowledge, and errors from using outdated sheets.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.
Оглавление
Preface
Part 1:The Problem with Excel, and Why Rule-Based AI Can Be the Solution
Chapter 1: Wrestling with Excel? You Are Not Alone
Chapter 2: Choosing an AI and Business Rules Engine – Why Drools and KIE?
Chapter 3: Your First Business Rule with the Online KIE Sandbox
Part 2: Writing Business Rules and Decision Models – with Real-Life Examples
Chapter 4: More Decision Models, Business Rules, and Decision Tables
Chapter 5: Sharing and Deploying Decision Models Using OpenShift and GitHub
Chapter 6: Calling Business Rules from Excel Using Power Query
Part 3: Extending Excel, Decision Models, and Business Process Automation into a Complete Enterprise Solution
Chapter 7: Using Business Rules in Excel with Visual Basic, Script Lab, or Office Scripts
Chapter 8: Using AI and Decision Services Within Power Automate Workflows
Chapter 9: Advanced Expressions, Decision Models, and Testing
Part 4: Next Steps in AI, Machine Learning, and Rule Engines
Chapter 10: Scaling Rules in Business Central with Docker and the Cloud
Chapter 11: Rules-Based AI and Machine Learning AI – Combining the Best of Both
Chapter 12: What Next? A Look inside Neural Networks, Enterprise Projects, Advanced Rules, and the Rule Engine
Index
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Appendix A - Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications
Appendix B - Testing Using VSCode, Azure, and GitHub Codespaces
Appendix C - Troubleshooting Docker
