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Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor 6.5 Offers Agility in Business Rules Lifecycle

Fair Isaac Corporation, a provider of analytics and decision management technology, announced the release and immediate availability of version 6.5 of Blaze Advisor business rules management system, a core offering in Fair Isaac's roster of technologies for enterprise decision management (EDM). Designed to help organizations increase the precision, consistency and agility of their critical, high-volume decisions, Blaze Advisor 6.5 software provides businesses with enhanced support for managing rules and analytics from development through deployment.

Blaze Advisor software allows nonprogrammers to design, deploy, execute and maintain business rules and policies as part of an automated business application. The software incorporates the Rete III inference engine that helps organizations manage large amounts of data and execute rules faster and more efficiently than other rules management systems.

New capabilities include enhanced verification of rules and procedural logic, such as user-defined functions to identify gaps and overlaps. Users also can validate rules through regression testing against expected values. The publication process including these verification and validation steps as well as stakeholders' approval is managed by Blaze Advisor 6.5 in the new rules lifecycle service. Projects can be promoted from development to production according to documented and automated processes.

In addition, version 6.5 features tight integration with Model Builder for Predictive Analytics 3.5, Fair Isaac's software platform for developing and deploying predictive models. The integration allows for greater transparency and enables the movement of models from data analysis into decision management via Blaze Advisor's enhanced predictive model markup language (PMML) import capabilities.

A scorecard, regression or neural network model built in Model Builder can be directly deployed within Blaze Advisor rules flows without recoding. Any authorized business user can apply analytics as an essential decision element that can be seen, modified and combined with other decision elements prior to execution, in a single process.

The software is the first rules engine to support Java, .NET and COBOL deployment of the same rules. The multiplatform solution supports web services and SOA, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platforms, Microsoft .NET, and COBOL for z/OS mainframes.

Visit Fair Isaac online at http://www.fairisaac.com/edm.

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