Egg Wins 2006 European Business Rules Award with Implementation of Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor System; United Kingdom's Leading Online Bank Receives ''Best Business Rules Solution'' Award with Credit Management System.UNITED KINGDOM & MINNEAPOLIS -- Egg, the United Kingdom's leading online bank, and 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. Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :FIC FIC First International Computer FIC Fogarty International Center (John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences; National Institutes of Health) FIC Fellowship for Intentional Community ), the leading provider of analytics and decision management technology, today announced that Egg's rules-based Credit Management System received the coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. "Best Business Rules Solution" award at this year's 2006 European Business Rules Conference (EBRC EBRC East Boulder Recreational Center (Boulder, CO) EBRC E-Business Research Center ). Recognized against significant competition, Egg demonstrated the versatility, agility and speed of Fair Isaac's 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 as an integral part of its Credit Management System. The EBRC award committee selected Egg based on specific factors, including: --The Credit Management System is owned and driven by Egg's business users. --Egg developed the rules based Using "if-this, do that" rules to perform actions. Rules-based products implies flexibility in the software, enabling tasks and data to be easily changed by replacing one or more rules. system in-house. --The Credit Management System is a core part of Egg's daily business transactions. --The adoption and deployment of its Credit Management System had a wide-ranging impact on Egg's business. --The system supports multiple representations of business rules. As a recipient of the EBRC 2006 Award, Egg spokesperson Marcus Cripps designated the charitable donation of a EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 500 award to The Friends of Portway Infants, a charity for advancing the education of young children. "Egg is proud to have been recognized by this year's 2006 European Business Rules Conference committee," stated Pete Marsden, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. at Egg. "Competing via the Web, it is critical to provide our banking clients fast, precise decisions and offers for the services they require. The adoption of Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor system for our Credit Management System allows us to execute transactions quickly with the agility to deliver new offerings created directly by our business analysts making valuable business decisions." Egg's objective in building the Credit Management System (CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. ) included coordinating credit risk decisions (across the bank and across the customer), reducing the amount of manual interventions and linking disparate IT systems. By making more precise and consistent decisions, Egg sought to lower its provisioning for bad debt, increase its acceptance rates and set more appropriate credit limits. "Egg's success is a great example of how more businesses are using Blaze Advisor to help manage highly complex decisioning processes," said Paul Perleberg, general manager of international operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. at Fair Isaac. "Blaze not only allows organizations to execute transactions quickly, but also provides the agility and flexibility to adapt decision strategies as business strategies change." Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor system enables Egg's business users to easily set up and change business rules so that new strategies can be put into production faster. Egg built a "Blaze Control Centre" that enables business users to build and test the rules on their PCs. The rules are maintained as a distinct body of knowledge within the Blaze Advisor enterprise rules repository. Egg has a strong, longstanding relationship with Fair Isaac, and currently uses the company's fraud detection technology, credit risk models and TRIAD(TM) adaptive control system. About Egg Prudential announced on 1 December 2005 the terms of a recommended offer for the whole of the issued and to be issued shares of Egg not already owned by Prudential Group, representing approximately 21.7 per cent of the existing issued share capital of Egg. On 23 January 2006, Prudential announced that the Group's share ownership of Egg had risen to 95.7 per cent of the entire issued ordinary share capital and that it had applied to delist Egg from 20 February 2006. About Fair Isaac Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC) makes decisions smarter. The company's solutions and technologies for Enterprise Decision Management give businesses the power to automate more processes, and apply more intelligence to every customer interaction. Through increasing the precision, consistency and agility of their decisions, Fair Isaac clients worldwide increase sales, build customer value, cut fraud losses, manage credit risk, reduce operational costs, meet changing compliance demands and enter new markets more profitably. Founded in 1956, Fair Isaac powers hundreds of billions of decisions per year in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, retail, consumer branded goods, healthcare and the public sector. Fair Isaac also helps millions of individuals manage their credit health through the www.myfico.com website. Visit Fair Isaac online at www.fairisaac.com. Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Information Except for historical information contained herein, the statements contained in this press release that relate to Fair Isaac, including statements regarding its Blaze Advisor business rules management system and the benefits to be derived from this product offering, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. 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