New book “Business Decision Modeling with OpenRules”

The new book is now available at Amazon: https://lnkd.in/ef-ygpJg. This book is oriented to subject matter experts who want to build operational decision models for their business environments. No programming skills are required. The objective is to help readers learn quickly how to apply the decision modeling approach to building real-world decision models. This book will guide readers through practical examples, starting with simple business problems and moving to complex ones. After learning how to create decision models, readers may also test, debug, modify, and analyze them using freely downloadable OpenRules software and familiar tools such as Microsoft Excel (http://OpenRules.com).

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OpenRules Solution to Feb-2025 Challenge “Mr Bates vs The Post Office”

DMCommunity.org posted the challenge “Mr Bates vs The Post Office”. I applied Rule Solver to demonstrate how to solve this challenge using several decision tables. Link

Then I decided to ask GenAI to produce a solution for this challenge using JavaSolver API. I was a bit surprised that Copilot is quite familiar with JavaSolver It quickly generated for me a Java program for a simple Arithmetic problem similar to this one. Then I gave the text of this Challenge in plain English, and Copilot generated a very good working solution for this challenge as well! Here it is: https://dmcommunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/challenge2025feb.copilot.pdf