Appistry Announces Support for Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor(TM), Offering Increased Agility for Enterprise Decision Management Deployments.Combined capabilities will help businesses cost-effectively run large-scale, mission-critical applications SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Appistry, the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric software, today announced from Fair Isaac's InterACT 07 conference the successful integration of Blaze Advisor A system for adding rules-based processing into an application from Fair Isaac Corporation, Minneapolis, MN, (www.fairisaac.com). Blaze Advisor is a Java-based rules engine that enables Windows, Solaris and OS/390 applications to be more easily revised by making changes in the rules [TM] business rules management system and Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (EAF EAF - Effort Adjustment Factor ). Deploying the solutions jointly helps customers increase business agility, while dramatically reducing the cost of running and managing large-scale, enterprise decision management (EDM (Engineering Data Management) An information system that maintains the details of all engineering data while the product is in the design and concept phase. This includes geometry and changes to geometry. See PLM. EDM - Electronic Data Management ) systems. Appistry EAF is a grid-based application platform that dramatically simplifies the process of developing highly scalable, extremely reliable applications, and deploying them on networks of inexpensive, commodity-grade hardware. The integration of Blaze Advisor applications with Appistry EAF combines Fair Isaac's powerful rules management capabilities and advanced RETE III inference engine The processing program in an expert system. It derives a conclusion from the facts and rules contained in the knowledge base using various artificial intelligence techniques. inference engine - A program that infers new facts from known facts using inference rules. with the "scale-out" virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , software-based reliability, and automated management capabilities of an Appistry application fabric. "Our alliance with Appistry gives customers the ability to increase or decrease capacity on demand using commodity-grade computers," said Bill Waid, vice president of EDM technologies at Fair Isaac Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC), founded in 1956 by engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac, provides consulting services and enterprise decision management systems. . "This allows organizations to differentiate themselves from their competition by driving increasingly sophisticated, yet operational decision-making on a completely scalable, high-performance platform." The high performance and agility of Blaze Advisor complements the nimble environment created by Appistry EAF, yielding compelling benefits for enterprise customers, including: * Increased Agility: With Blaze Advisor running atop Appistry EAF, customers are able to easily increase capacity--on-demand--allowing them to more flexibly manage the demands of increased volume or seasonal business requirements. * Decreased Time-To-Market: Large-scale applications based on Appistry EAF may be delivered more rapidly, with developers shielded from the complexity of distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. development. * Improved Dependability: Because Appistry EAF transparently provides reliability and high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. to Blaze Advisor applications, customers are able to readily meet the service-level requirements demanded by their businesses. * Enhanced Price-Performance: Using Appistry EAF, joint customers are able to deploy applications developed with Blaze Advisor across an easily-managed fabric of inexpensive servers, allowing them to dramatically reduce infrastructure costs. "Today's 'real-time enterprise' increasingly depends on enterprise decision management technology to help make better decisions more quickly," said Sam Charrington, vice president of product management and marketing with Appistry. "By integrating Fair Isaac's leading rules management product with our application fabric software, we're giving joint customers a significant advantage in the race to increased agility and competitiveness." The companies invite interested parties to visit www.appistry.com/special/blaze to register for informative Web seminars and download additional information about deploying grid-enabled rules engines and enterprise decision management systems. About Appistry Appistry's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric, delivers the combined benefits of grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal and virtualization by allowing customers to rapidly create highly scalable service-oriented applications and readily deploy them across a virtualized "grid" of inexpensive computers. As a result, Appistry customers, such as FedEx, Northrop Grumman and GeoEye, are able to quickly and inexpensively bring new capabilities to market, with the agility, dependability and scale demanded by their businesses. For more information, visit www.appistry.com, or call 888-APP-0111 (888-277-0111). |
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