Fair Isaac's Business Rules Technology Wins Readers' Choice Award from Intelligent Enterprise

Fair Isaac Corporation, the leading provider of analytics and decision technology, today announced that CMP Media’s Intelligent Enterprise has named Fair Isaac the winner of the Business Rules Engine category in its 2005 Readers’ Choice Awards for best IT technologies.

Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor is a complete software solution for defining, executing and managing business rules in an automated business environment. As the industry standard among business rules solutions, Blaze Advisor has hundreds of customers worldwide across multiple industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, government and telecommunications.

“Intelligent Enterprise polls its readers annually to find out which technologies best meet their needs for developing, implementing and managing strategic business applications,” said David Stodder, editor-in-chief of Intelligent Enterprise. “We believe that Fair Isaac taking the top spot in the business rules engine category indicates that its Blaze Advisor software delivers the best value to the greatest spectrum of users. We congratulate Fair Isaac on that achievement.”

“We are very pleased that our continued investment in bringing the most innovative rules management capabilities to our customers is making such a significant impact in the marketplace,” said James Taylor, vice president of product marketing, Enterprise Decision Management, at Fair Isaac. “This recognition confirms that Blaze Advisor is leading the way in helping businesses manage highly complex decisioning processes, allowing them to improve both time to market and execution agility throughout the organization.”

Blaze Advisor is part of Fair Isaac’s software and solutions for enterprise decision management, which combines data analytics, modeling, and policy-level control to let companies define and manage their automated business systems for improved efficiency and greater profitability. The solution supports Web Services, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platforms, Microsoft .NET, Transaction Server and Component Object Model (COM), IBM mainframes, and legacy systems.

Fair Isaac recently announced that it has acquired assets of RulesPower, Inc., a provider of high-performance business rules management systems. The addition of RulesPower’s rules execution technology will complement and enhance Blaze Advisor’s existing performance optimization capabilities, powerful rules repository, developer tools and templates for business user rules management.

Published 18 times annually by CMP Media, Intelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to the strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. It serves an exclusive audience of 80,000 business and IT professionals who plan and deploy the strategic applications their companies depend on to improve decision making, enhance business performance and maximize the value of customer relationships.

For the complete list of the 2005 Intelligent Enterprise Readers’ Choice Awards, please see http://www.intelligententerprise.com. For more information on Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor, visit http://www.fairisaac/rules.