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Businesses have used Microsoft Excel spreadsheets for many years to store business knowledge and capture business requirements for an implementation project. In addition, many businesses continue to maintain their decision logic in this well-known format. Often, business and technical teams maintain and reference these spreadsheets. In some organizations, automated systems directly consume Excel spreadsheets. These organizations often use decision management systems to manage the decision logic in these automated systems. While most decision management systems can use spreadsheets, they vary in usefulness.
Specifically, we will address two of the more significant limitations:
- working with large Excel spreadsheets
- how to configure the decision management system to use what’s in them
In some cases, businesses prefer to manage business rules. Therefore, the decision management system must be able to translate spreadsheets into business rules during development. In other cases, businesses prefer to manage spreadsheets. Therefore, the decision management system must also be able to interpret spreadsheets at runtime. SMARTS™ Decision Manager is a decision management system that supports both cases.
Topics include:
- Why you should use a decision management system like SMARTS™ Decision Manager
- How to integration spreadsheets with decision management systems
- How to automatically import spreadsheets in DMN format with SMARTS™
- How to convert spreadsheets into executable artifacts through SMARTS™ Lookup Models
This webinar is hosted by Carole-Ann Berlioz, Chief Product Officer at Sparkling Logic.
Additional Resources
- Why Carole-Ann likes Excel
- Form Structure – Start with Data (Part of our Transforming Requirements into Business Rules series)
- Rules Authoring Capabilities in SMARTS™
Sparkling Logic Webinars
Sparkling Logic webinars are designed for business analysts and decision management practitioners who may or may not be familiar with Sparkling Logic’s SMARTS™ business rules and decision management platform. We provide practical guidance through out the decision management lifecycle. Whether you’re looking for tips on how to design, test, deploy, monitor, or improve risk and other operational decisions, this webinar series is for you. You can view all our past webinars and sign up for our periodic newsletter to receive updates on upcoming webinars.
If you’re new to decision management and SMARTS™, here are some resources to get your started:
- First, read our business rules FAQs, decision management FAQs, and our Decision Management 101 blog series
- Then, watch our “Getting Started with a New Decision” video (and other videos) on our Product Demos page
- Next, register for our next live Product Tour