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SaaS Release 2023

Highlights include:

  • A new one-stop shop Portal
  • A new modern Runtime API
  • Ability to visualize execution trends
  • New Author Studio features
  • A new testing experience
  • Upgrade to InRule 5.8

Portal 2.0​

Portal 2.0 will provide users a central place for all things InRule with an improved user experience.

  • Users will no longer have to keep track of multiple URLS for their multiple environments. One URL will provide access to all their environments.
  • Portal 2.0 will give customers easy access to all of their InRule applications.
  • Portal 2.0 will make it easy for users to manage their account settings, configuration settings and provisioned resources now that they are available all in one place.
  • Portal 2.0 comes complete with in-application guidance bringing help and support right to the customer.

Key features:

  • A central URL that will give access to all customer environments (ex: https://cloud.inrule.com)
  • Includes configuration service which is a single source of truth for all configuration settings
  • Includes self help across our SaaS offerings

Portal Landing page

Configuration page

In-Application Guidance

Decision Services​

Decision Services is a modern runtime API with built-in Swagger support and Portal 2.0 integration. It is discoverable, frictionless, performant and secure.

  • Easily discover all decision & rule set execution endpoints for a rule application
  • Ease of testing API calls through the Swagger interface
  • Usability gain from simplified request/response model
  • Monitoring hooks for status and health check
  • Confidence with performance, scalability, and security

Key Features:

  • Decision-centric Swagger documentation
  • Request/response objects accurately reflect expected data objects
  • Cross-platform support (OpenAPI compliant, .NET 6.0 Web API)
  • Extensibility for alternative rule application sources (GitHub, Azure storage, AWS, etc.)
  • Legacy Rule Execution API support allowing over-time transition path

Note: The current Rule Execution API will still be available and accessible to users

Decision Services 2.0 Overview page

Decision API Swagger page for a selected rule application

Rule Execution API Swagger page

Runtime Analytics​

Runtime Analytics allows users to visualize execution trends with details such as endpoint latency, request counts, errors, spikes, and more.

Key Features:

  • Ability to track execution trends across rule applications, performance spikes, outliers, compilation, and aggregate execution metrics across time windows
  • Interactive filtering and sorting
  • Capability to export the Dashboard to pdf/image
  • Data synchronization collected across tenant instances with minimal delay
  • Easily access the dashboard from the portal

Authoring Insights Dashboard.png

New Author Studio functionality​

New author studio features bring users a few steps closer to end-to-end authoring on the web and requires them to rely on irAuthor less.

Key Features:

  • Ability to author entities and fields
  • Ability to create new rule applications
  • Ability to author conditional rules (if/then, if/then/else)
  • Ability to view actions created in irAuthor
  • Updated look & feel

New Fields page in Author Studio

New Conditional Rule in Author Studio

New test experience​

The new Author Studio Tester will provide an interactive user-friendly testing experience for decisions and rules from within Author Studio.

  • Ability to fully test decisions and rules within the Author Studio web app
  • Confidence that your rule application functions correctly before publishing
  • Cross-team visibility into rule execution details before hitting production

Key Features:

  • Intuitive data input form generated from rule application metadata
  • Ability to paste raw json for rapid data loading
  • Provides complete output data set, notifications, execution log, and statistics
  • Variable rule execution options
  • Integrated into the same Decision API used by your calling apps

Author Studio Tester (input)

Author Studio Tester (output)

Upgrade to InRule 5.8​

For customers not already on the latest version of InRule, this release will include an upgrade to InRule 5.8.

Highlights of our 5.8.0 update include:

  • Execute Decision action added to irAuthor
  • New Extension Manager allows users to discover and manage irAuthor extensions

Fore more detailed information, go here.

Installation Requirements, Testing and More​

For more information about this release in regards to installation requirements, testing and dates, please go here.

For any further questions, don't hesitate to reach out to InRule Customer Success.