All Your Business Rules Questions, Answered

• DecisionRules is a straightforward SaaS solution that can help to digitalize day-to-day decision-making processes within your organization. It provides all the key features that your organization needs to promote various semi-manual, paper, or excel-based “interim” solutions to the next level. DecisionRules allows you to boost your productivity, speed up corresponding workflows and eliminate room for manual errors. All these results in significant operational cost savings.
• However effective our solution is in the background, we have made our best effort to keep the facade as close to business users as possible. This means you don’t need to buy the solution and hire a bunch of IT geeks to handle it at once. Your analyst should be able to grasp quickly the whole concept and start thinking differently within a few hours.

• Yes, our documentation can be found here

• Sure, we offer tutorials that guide you through setting up Decision Tables, Scripting Rules, Rule Flows, and other functionalities. You can find these tutorials in our Academy, which provides step-by-step articles to help you get started with our features.

• Sure, our roadmap is public and regularly updated.
• The roadmap is available in our Docs.

• You can visit our documentation.
• Download our product sheet on the main page.
• Contact us at sales@decisionrules.io.

• The sign-up process is simple. Visit our website and click Login button. You can sign up via Google, Microsoft, SSO or create an account: click Create account, fill out the registration form and straight away you can log in and enjoy DecisionRules!

• Yes, we offer a free trial for a period of 10 days with a Business plan.

• When you create your account, you'll receive 10 days of access to the Business plan and its features.
• Information about every plan can be found on our Cloud Pricing page.

• Once the 10 days trial period ends, your account will be downgraded to the Starter+ plan for 60 days. After this period, your account will switch to our free Starter plan. You can upgrade to any of our premium plans at any time.
• Information about every plan can be found on our Cloud Pricing page.

• No. You can sign up and use DecisionRules without entering your credit card details. Once you decide to subscribe for any of our paid plans, you will pick a plan and enter your credit card details.

• There are no setup fees or hidden charges with any of our SaaS plans. Use DecisionRules for free and get instant access to your account.
  

• We accept all major credit/debit cards including Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Maestro, American Express, Carte Bancaire.
• If you need us to accept purchase orders or take any form of offline payment, please contact us at sales@decisionrules.io.
  

• Yes. DecisionRules is a service paid on a monthly basis or a yearly upfront payment. You can upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time. Go to Dashboard, click on your email address at the top right-hand corner and choose “Plans”.
  

• Yes! We value people and companies that try to change the world at least a little bit every day. We know how hard it is to build something big out of nothing. That is why we offer startups and non-profit organizations a discount on our plans.
• Contact us at sales@decisionrules.io for individual pricing.

• Yes, the partnership is one of the channels that we use to promote and potentially sell DecisionRules. We are open to partnering with companies all around the world. Our partners know their clients better than us and might be more efficient when applying DR for particular use cases.
  

• DecisionRules contains a highly efficient interface for creating decision tables to be immediately at your service and are designed to respond quickly to your business needs. Whether you use DecisionRules in the cloud or on-premise, you can create and test the first rule in minutes compared to a competing solution. You can send input and output data easily in JSON format. There are many operators available to you similar to Excel spreadsheets.
• Find more information in our Academy.

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• DecisionRules is highly hackable, so you're never limited by what's available out of the box. You can write JavaScript Business Rule inside our tool. Just wrap your rule with JavaScript, and it'll execute in powerful sandboxes VM. Using JavaScript, you can write more extensive complex rules. There's also a native API to execute them from your connected app.
• Find more information in our Academy.

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• DecisionRules supports combining multiple rules into a single Rule Flow which you simply call via the API. This approach is suitable for evaluating multiple independent rules, where data flow is needed from one rule to another. It makes DecisionRules easy to create more complex data compositions or classifications such as risk models and data validation.
• Find more information in our Academy.

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• Spaces are for working with your fellow co-workers on particular sets of rules. Every space has its admin who can invite other users to work together. For every user, the roles and permissions can be customized based on the policy that is required by the company.
• Spaces can be used in multiple ways: as environments, departments in companies, to separate the rules with similar logic, etc.

• Find more information in our Docs.

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• The Organization feature empowers administrators to orchestrate user privileges, define space permissions, and streamline collaboration seamlessly. While its primary function revolves around user and space management, Organization extends its capabilities to offer a comprehensive suite of functionalities tailored to meet diverse organizational needs.

• Find more information in our Docs.

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• All rules are versioned. You can create a new version of the rule with one click and deploy it with another one. This is how business versioning works for us. DecisionRules also saves changes in each rule automatically at any change. Therefore one can always revert to any historical version of the respective rule. This feature is available for both decision tables and scripting rules.
• Find more information in our Docs.

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• There are two ways to invoke Rules and RuleFlow. The REST API and Kafka for asynchronous calls. All of our APIs are well documented in clear and comprehensive documentation that is always available online. If you encounter difficulties, our professional team is ready to advise you or prepare new custom functionality.
• Find more information on our Integrations page.
  

• Yes. DecisionRules offers analytical layers of 2 types.
• Every user can access the Dashboard which supplies the basic overview of Spaces, account, or usage.
• DecisionRules can be connected to any BI tool supporting connection via ODBC driver; for example Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, etc.
• Find more information in our Docs.

• No, the SaaS version of DecisionRules is available without any local installation.

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• We are currently able to consume data via the REST API and the Kafka API.
• Currently, it is necessary to load data from SQL databases using custom logic or directly from PLSQL
• We are working to make it easier to consume data from other data sources.
  

• As software development technology we use nodeJS and for frontend Angular. The deployment is done via Docker Container, MongoDB, and Redis cache. The mentioned technologies are also compatible with similar technologies on AWS, Azure, Google. More information can be found on the On-Premise page.
  

• DecisionRules can be connected to customers' applications through various connectors, for example, .NET, Rest API, Java, React, PHP, and more.

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• 30.000 API calls per minute on SaaS deployment for rules at average complexity.
  

• We offer 3 deployment models:
• SaaS - you can simply sign-up with your email access and you can right away use the capabilities of the DecisionRules.
• Private cloud - the DecisionRules will be set up on the cloud dedicated to your company, at the chosen location maintained by DecisionRules.
• On-premise - we provide the application, you take care of the infrastructure. This deployment type is available on AWS, Azure, or on your own servers.
  

• Yes, we do offer product support as part of our SLA. The SLA scheme can be found in our Docs.
  

• At the moment, our application is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese (Brazilian), but we are quite open to localizing the application per our customer needs.
  

• Yes, DecisionRules is scalable. The public cloud uses the same pool for all the costumes. In the case of private cloud space or on-premise, the scalability is unlimited. It depends on the customer's architecture. So if using Kubernetes it can scale up to hundreds of thousands of API calls per minute. We can provide you with assistance with setting up the correct parameters based on your needs.
  

• Yes, DecisionRules is compatible with older versions of the app. There is also no need to change the rules with new updates.
  

• In general, we have a major update every 2 months. Minor updates are released every 3 weeks, on SaaS and Docker versions as well.
  

• Decision Rules regularly undergo third-party penetration testing, which ensures that the new functionalities are safe for our customers.
• Production data is stored in AWS data centers that meet high-security requirements. Only a couple of trusted persons working in our company have access to production data.

• Data residency in particular countries can be granted in multiple ways:
• SaaS public cloud. If we have the server allocated in a particular country then this operation mode can be used.
• SaaS public cloud managed by us. We can set up AWS or Azure at any location they have data warehouses.
• On-premise (servers or AWS, Azure managed by the company). In this case, we provide BE and FE Docker containers which the client deployed on their servers on the cloud that is used, in this scenario the data residency is in the hands of the client.