Paul Browne - AI and Business Rule Engines for Excel Power Users

Capture and scale your business knowledge into the cloud - with Microsoft 365, Decision Models, and AI tools from IBM and Red Hat

Paul Browne

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To my parents, Robert and Vera, who instilled a life-long love of learning and who supported me in many steps of my journey. To my wife, Joanne, who has helped me become a better person, and to my sons, who are starting their own journeys but who have always made me proud.

Paul Browne

With the explosion of interest in Artificial Intelligence( AI) in recent years, I am more convinced than ever that the rules-based approach to AI alongside machine learning is the most accessible route for Excel users. Thats based on my own, and my teams, work with business users like you, looking to capture business knowledge and rules in a way that can be easily shared and executed. Right now, the community is especially excited about the next generation of tools, making it easier than ever to deploy decision and machine learning models together.

It has been about 15 years since my first code contribution was accepted by the Drools project team a brand new parser for the Drools Rule Language( DRL) that landed just in time for Drools 5. Since then, I have had the privilege to learn and work with the most brilliant engineers in the industry and the opportunity to collaborate with an amazing open source community.

Drools was already a widely used and mature open source rule engine. The community was about to release Guvnor, a set of integrated tools to support users managing their business rules, life cycles, from authoring to packaging to deployment.