Blaze Advisor® business rules management system is the world's leading rules management solution, designed to automate operational business decisions and provide companies with unprecedented agility, consistency and precision in their customer interactions.
Enterprise Software for Business Rules Management
Whether you need to build a decisioning application that uses a few dozen policies to guide users through a procedure, or a massively complex automated process incorporating tens of thousands of rules of all kinds, you can do it with the Blaze Advisor system. And you’ll be able to do it 25% faster and with cost savings of up to 80% over conventional application development methods.
Select Blaze Advisor as part of the Fair Isaac Enterprise Decision Management suite of software and services, and you’ll also be able to increase insight and precision by adding scorecards and other predictive models at any point in your decisioning process. These models can be incorporated into Blaze Advisor just like any other decisioning element, without coding and with 4-to-10-times faster deployment than has ever been possible before.
Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor is in use today at top banks, insurance carriers, credit providers, manufacturers, telecommunications companies and government agencies, providing decision-making execution and agility for both interactive applications and processing-intensive batch jobs.
Key Benefits:
- Business people control their own rules
Business users can write, view, manage and change business policies and other types of rules using secure, point-and-click web interfaces in 24x7 production systems. Rules can be changed at any time, without disrupting operations and without IT assistance.
- Total cost of ownership is lower
Quicker and more accurate development of applications can reduce your initial costs by up to 80%. With business users doing most of the updates and enhancements, maintenance costs can be reduced by 75%.
- Application development is faster
Instead of coding rules in programming languages, IT develops new applications using a rules language that closely approximates how business people think and talk about their business. It’s a direct process with very little opportunity for error or misunderstanding. IT can also provide business users with tools for writing rules themselves and for making post-deployment rule changes without need for IT assistance.
Feature Highlights:
- Enterprise rule repository, enabling developers to work in a coordinated manner as teams and leverage each other’s work by sharing and reusing rules, rule sets, rule flows and object models. The rule repository can be stored as an XML file, database or LDAP directory.
- Integrated environment for application development, rules authoring and testing. Blaze Advisor offers a simple English-like Structured Rule Language (SRL) for writing rules. It enables developers, whether IT or technically oriented analysts, to efficiently realize spoken or written policies in software. At the same time, sophisticated ruleset metaphors (decision tables, decision trees and scorecards) provide a way for nonprogrammers to author rules as well. Developers can also easily create Rule Maintenance Applications (highly customized web forms and other types of interfaces) that enable business users to quickly change rules on an ongoing basis. All of these functions, along with rule testing capabilities, are part of an integrated development environment.
- No limit to the number of rules that can be managed, or added. Groups of rules can be defined and maintained in easy-to-use constructs such as decision tables and decision trees.
- Easy management of any number of complex decisioning processes in almost any operational environment. Manages multiple decisioning applications and subprocesses simultaneously. Performs complex rule processing tasks involving sets and arrays, string manipulation and integration with external data sources such as databases, XML documents, Java or .NET objects and message streams. Blaze Advisor system’s best-of-breed rules engine identifies and executes the subset of rules that apply to a given decision and its relevant set of data—even if that’s only a handful of rules in tens of thousands. The optional sequential mode maximizes efficiency for batch processing in very high throughput environments.
- Simultaneous support for interactive and batch applications. Manages both real-time decisioning and batch processing of large volumes of decisions. Interactive support includes functions that dynamically update information on web pages. Developers can control not only what is displayed, but also the sequence of information based on the end user’s activity (clicks, information entered, etc.).
- Ability to cope with incomplete information. Blaze Advisor operates effectively in the real world, where information is often incomplete. It can distinguish between empty data values that the system attempted to retrieve but found no value for and those that either have not yet been asked for or have been explicitly set to null (no value).
- Complete rule tracking and version control. Blaze Advisor keeps track of changes to rules over time, allowing viewing of past versions, audits of who made changes at what time, and return to previous versions if necessary. Security and locking mechanisms allow organizations to manage simultaneous user changes from multiple locations without conflict.
- Advanced rule query and management functionality. Blaze Advisor uses management properties to organize, track and find components of rule projects. Standard queries for common properties are provided with Blaze Advisor, along with the ability to create customized searches.
- Rules management templates for increased efficiency and control.
Management of rules over time is simplified by allowing the easy specification of rules management templates. Each template governs what may be changed in the rule, what values are allowed, and how the template should be displayed to the user. With the push of a button, Blaze Advisor automatically generates entire multi-page web-based Rule Maintenance Applications that allow nontechnical business users to review and alter rules within the guidelines of the underlying templates.
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