Fair Isaac Showcases Business Rules Advances
11/10/2004
Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC), a provider of analytics and decision technology, demonstrated its business rules technology, Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor, at the Seventh Annual International Business Rules Forum, November 7-11, 2004.
Fair Isaac said that its Blaze Advisor is the de facto standard among business rules solutions, with hundreds of worldwide customers across multiple industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, government and telecommunications. Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor, company officials said, gives business users and analysts a powerful solution to update business strategies across critical enterprise information systems by using common business terms.
They said the control of the business logic embedded in IT systems allows business users to alter application behavior without IT assistance, using intuitive rules maintenance applications. This feature seeks to increase business agility, allows rules to be modified more quickly and easily and requires IT to simply link and test the final applications.
“For more than six years, Blaze Advisor has delivered many industry innovations, including rule flows, decision trees, scorecards and versioning to Web-based rule maintenance for business managers that equip enterprises with an application development platform to achieve rapid return on their technology investments,” said James Taylor, marketing director of decision management software and tools at Fair Isaac. “Building on our client successes, Business Rules Forum 2004 will prove to be a momentous event to expand our leadership role in rules management technology and share our newest innovation - how Blaze Advisor business rules technology empowers enterprise decision management.”
Fair Isaac is making advances in business rules technology development to meet individual workgroup applications as well as large-scale national and multinational companies, who have a number of heterogeneous platforms and legacy systems using multiple programming languages. Fair Isaac said that highlights of recently announced Blaze Advisor solutions include:
- Cross-platform support ranging from COBOL to Java and Microsoft .NET. Blaze Advisor seeks to help companies that seek an open solution that provides a foundation for companies to easily modernize their enterprise decision systems while continuing to leverage existing applications.
- Blaze Advisor for .NET enables users to develop rule services that interoperate with Microsoft Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET, Visual J# .NET, XML, .NET, COM, messaging, and databases, as well as Web services.
- Blaze Advisor for COBOL enables users to develop rule services that can be compiled out to 100 percent ANSI-standard COBOL, and allows these rule services to read and write data in COBOL copybooks/CICS interfaces.
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