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Fair Isaac Expands Decision Management Opportunities Globally with Localization of Blaze Advisor System.


MINNEAPOLIS -- Industry-Leading Business Rules Management Technology Now Offered in French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, , and Japanese

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 version 6.1 of its award-winning 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 is now available in five languages, in addition to English. Businesses worldwide can now develop and deploy business rules using interfaces and data represented in French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese.

The localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n.  of the Blaze Advisor system accelerates and simplifies strategy execution with enterprise business rules to help businesses reach new levels of agility in an increasingly complex, competitive and regulated global economy. Building upon a tradition of bringing innovative capabilities to the rules market, the system demonstrates Fair Isaac's continued investment in and commitment to enterprise decision management both domestically and abroad.

"The introduction of localized rules development environments and documentation provides businesses with the ability to accelerate decision management regardless of where business decisions are maintained," said Mark Layden, vice president and general manager of Enterprise Decision Management Software at Fair Isaac. "Our clients are now in a position to harness the power of rules and develop them across the extended enterprise to ensure that business processes conform to internal and external standards."

The latest release of Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor system includes the advanced Rete III inference engine for best-in-class performance within complex, enterprise-class deployments and powerful rules management capabilities. The system also offers a .NET and Java version and fully supports multi-platform deployment of rules.

Blaze Advisor rules management system is used by many of the world's leading companies. It 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 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 and COBOL for z/OS mainframes.

Blaze Advisor system is part of Fair Isaac's software and solutions for Enterprise Decision Management, which combines data analytics, modeling and policy-level control to let companies define and manage their automated business systems for improved efficiency and greater profitability.

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 or e-mail edm@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 Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor business rules management product offering, 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. 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 offering, 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, 2005, and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q

See 10-Q.
 for the period ended March 31, 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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