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Fair Isaac's Business Rules Technology Captures 2006 Intelligent Enterprise Readers' Choice Award.


MINNEAPOLIS -- 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

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: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 its 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 has received the Intelligent Enterprise Readers' Choice Award for Best Business Rules Engine for the second consecutive year.

As a core component of Fair Isaac's software and solutions for Enterprise Decision Management, the Blaze Advisor system allows business users to design, implement and maintain rules and policies as part of an automated business application, helping organizations reach new levels of agility.

"Intelligent Enterprise readers vote annually for the technologies that best meet their needs for value, reliability and broad applicability in planning, building and integrating strategic business applications," said David Stodder, editor-in-chief of Intelligent Enterprise. "We congratulate Fair Isaac on taking the top honors in the business rules engine category for the second year in a row. We believe that this achievement indicates that its Blaze Advisor software delivers the best value to the greatest spectrum of users."

The newest version, Blaze Advisor 6.1, incorporates the 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.
 that is designed for data- and rules-intensive organizations where optimal performance is critical. Combined with Blaze Advisor's existing performance optimization features, powerful rules repository, analytic model deployment capabilities, and templates for business user rules management, the integrated system helps organizations process and execute complex business rules faster and more efficiently than any other rules management system.

"This award is particularly gratifying grat·i·fy  
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1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please.

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 because our Blaze Advisor rules engine was directly selected by Intelligent Enterprise readers who use it every day to power high-volume operational decision management applications," said Carole-Ann Matignon, vice president of product management, Enterprise Decision Management Technologies at Fair Isaac. "It is a testament to our continued commitment to helping our customers make their organizations smarter, faster and more profitable."

Blaze Advisor is the first rules engine to support Java, .NET and COBOL COBOL: see programming language.
COBOL
 in full Common Business-Oriented Language.

High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community.
 deployment of the same rules. The multi-platform solution supports Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term.  and SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records.

(2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability.
, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. ) platforms, Microsoft .NET See .NET. , and COBOL for z/OS mainframes. As the industry standard among business rules solutions, Blaze Advisor is used by hundreds of customers worldwide across multiple industries, including financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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, insurance, healthcare, government, and telecommunications.

For the complete list of the 2006 Intelligent Enterprise Readers' Choice Awards, please see http://www.intelligententerprise.com. For more information on Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor, visit http://www.fairisaac.com/rules.

About Intelligent Enterprise

IntelligentEnterprise.com is the only site dedicated to helping organizations plan and deploy strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. Intelligent Enterprise empowers Business Application Strategists charged with unlocking the value of strategic information, setting, managing and running their enterprise business processes to provide collaborative information delivery that drives strategic decision-making.

About Fair Isaac

Fair Isaac (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 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. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the implementation, use and functionality of the offering, the risks that customers will not perceive material benefits from the offering, failure of the product to deliver the expected results, the possibility of errors or defects in the offerings, regulatory changes applicable to the use of consumer credit and other data, and other risks described from time to time in Fair Isaac's SEC reports, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K

A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information.


Form 10-K

See 10-K.
 for the year ended September 30, 2006. Forward-looking statements should be considered with caution. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, Fair Isaac's results could differ materially from Fair Isaac's expectations in these statements. Fair Isaac disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

Fair Isaac and Blaze Advisor are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fair Isaac Corporation, in the United States and/or in other countries. Other product and company names herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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