Initially focused on Financial Services across global geographies, Fair Isaac’s relationship with Microsoft opens up new technology options and unique solutions for existing and prospective customers in retail banking, insurance and capital markets.
Fair Isaac announced in 2005 the certification of Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor for .NET, a robust rules management solution that takes advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework. Microsoft's certification of Blaze Advisor for .NET builds upon Fair Isaac's work with Microsoft and expands the reach of Fair Isaac's leading business rules management software.
With Fair Isaac Blaze advisor running on .NET, plus our scoring and analytic capabilities and hosted solutions and services, a much broader spectrum of bank, insurance and other financial institution customers now have access to leading-edge technologies that can help them compete more strongly in the global marketplace.
.NET is the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information, people, systems, and devices through software. Integrated across Microsoft’s platform and key products, .NET technology and Microsoft’s rapid application development tools provide the ability to quickly build, deploy, manage, and use connected, security-enhanced solutions with Web services. .NET-connected solutions enable businesses to integrate their systems more rapidly and in a more agile manner and help them realize the promise of information anytime, anywhere, on any device.
Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor for .NET enables businesses to incorporate rules management software that adds new levels of decision precision and consistency to existing applications, regardless of platform or programming language. Companies can design, deploy, execute and maintain business rules and policies as part of an automated business strategy application designed to achieve rapid ROI without being restricted by current and future technology investments.
Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor for .NET is designed to meet the needs of large-scale national and multinational companies that are looking for an open solution to facilitate modernization of enterprise decision systems while ensuring they can continue to leverage existing applications. It gives business users and analysts a powerful tool to update business strategies and ensure governance across critical enterprise information systems by using straightforward business terms. It also offers true cross-platform support ranging from COBOL to Java and .NET to allow consistent decisioning in heterogeneous environments.
Microsoft's certification of Blaze Advisor for .NET ensures that Fair Isaac's powerful business rules management and execution technology is fully compatible with Windows clients, Windows servers, and .NET managed code. Blaze Advisor Version 6.0.was developed expressly for .NET and benchmarked by Microsoft as performing on par with UNIX/Java versions of Blaze Advisor.
Blaze Advisor’s intuitive Rules Maintenance Applications allows the business user to control the business logic and application behavior without IT assistance. This increases business agility, allowing rules to be modified quickly and easily, requiring IT to simply link and test the final applications. Blaze Advisor for .NET enables users to develop rule services that interoperate with Microsoft .NET languages such as C#, Visual Basic .NET, and J#, as well as XML, COM, messaging, databases, and Web services.