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Balancing multiple profit drivers is essential in many high volume, transactional decisions targeted with Decision Management. Being able to execute decisions, monitor their effectiveness, learn what works, and systematically improve your decision-making results in significant business benefit. Mathematical optimization let’s you go even further. We recently published a new white paper – The Customer Journey [...]

A new white paper outlines the journey to optimal decisions and the role of mathematical optimization in getting the business results you want.

It’s been a while since I posted a job but  BenjaminBaer@fico.com has an open spot if you are interested in marketing decision management technology. – James Director, Portfolio Marketing (Decision Management – Decision Technologies) The Opportunity Are you looking for a career where you can orchestrate, execute and support the go-to-market strategies for FICO’s platform, products, and [...]

I recently participated in a webinar on Modernizing Your Legacy Platform to Deliver an Optimal Customer Experience with Benjamin Baer of FICO We discussed how, with today’s consumers expecting a compelling digital experience, organizations trying to develop modern, mobile and secure UIs are struggling with the limited capabilities of their legacy systems. An ‘optimal digital experience’ requires real-time transactions, seamless [...]

I am giving a webinar on Modernizing Your Legacy Platform to Deliver an Optimal Customer Experience with FICO, Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 10:00 am Pacific/ 1:00 pm Eastern Today’s consumers expect a compelling digital experience, especially on mobile devices. To do that, organizations need the tools to develop modern, mobile and secure UIs – however, many [...]

I am giving a webinar with FICO and Automotive News on Strategies for Driving Real-time, 24×7 Business Outcomes through Analytically-Driven Decisions, July 12th at 2:30pm Eastern. The automotive industry has invested heavily in its Big Data, digital, business intelligence, and analytic infrastructures. But insights promised by these investments frequently remain hidden in the vast amount of [...]

Final set of announcements at FICO World relates to Cybersecurity or Cyber Threat Analytics. Obviously cyber attacks are increasing and driving a lot of fraud and abuse – phishing, malware, personal record theft etc. The big challenge in all this is the timespan. 60% of data theft happens with minutes or hours of a breach but [...]

Continuing with product announcements at FICO World, next up is the new products for fraud prevention and compliance. Financial crime is on the minds of consumers right now with 2/3 worrying about having their credit card data compromised or having their accounts used fraudulently. FICO has launched a new FICO Consumer Fraud Control product. This [...]

FICO made a series of announcements today at FICOWorld 2016. The event kicked off with a fun retrospective of the 60 year history of FICO. Bill Fair and Early Isaac founded the company in 1956 to use data and analytics to improve decision-making. This focus has not changed really in all the years since – FICO is still [...]

I am giving a webinar with FICO on March 25th at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern on “Identifying the Right Analytic Capabilities in the Era of Big Data” There is an increasingly broad portfolio of analytic capabilities available to enterprises today. These range from traditional Business Intelligence capabilities like reporting and ad-hoc query to modern visualization and [...]

FICO Analytic Modeler is FICO’s in-browser analytic tool suite – the evolution of the Model Builder product line post the InfoCentricity acquisition. These offerings are part of the FICO Analytic Cloud, a cloud-based environment for building and managing analytic models and deploying analytics into decisioning applications.  It also features a marketplace for analytic solutions. The [...]

Brian McDonough has been writing (with Dan Vesset, Steve Hendrick, Henry Morris and others) on Decision Management at IDC for many years and he has recently published an IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Decision Management Software Platform 2014 Vendor Assessment. The report has an IDC MarketScape figure, IDC’s opinion on the Decision Management market, process and software as well as some [...]

I am giving a webinar with FICO on How Global Leaders are Achieving Success with Predictive Analytics in the Cloud, July 24th at 2pm Eastern. Analyst James Taylor answers the question: Are Companies Adopting Predictive Analytics in the Cloud? And, if so, how are they approaching it and overcoming obstacles to success? Mr. Taylor recently surveyed [...]

FICO has recently acquired InfoCentricity, makers of two advanced analytics products – Xeno (for building predictive scorecards, reviewed here) and StrategyTrees (decision trees). InfoCentricity has about 40 clients (some with over 100 modelers, some smaller). Most of these companies are also FICO clients though not generally for analytic modeling tools. Clients use the tools in [...]

As part of our ongoing “Meet our Partners Series” I caught up with Claye Greene of TechBlue, a Decision Management Solutions partner. Claye and I made this recording of a webinar on legacy modernization. Please describe your current role and title and tell us a little about your company I’m Claye Greene, Managing Director of TechBlue. TechBlue is [...]

I first got a briefing on Dulles Research Carolina back in 2010 and I recently got an update. Dulles Research was founded in 2005 and came to market with Carolina, their SAS to Java convertor, in 2009. A U.S. patent was awarded to Dulles last year for the SAS to Java conversion process. At its [...]

Back in 2008 I wrote this post – The small impact of business rules on the big players, bemoaning the lack of serious investment in business rules on the part of major software companies. As we enter 2014 I thought I would revisit this post and consider what a difference 5 years makes. Let’s consider some [...]

I am giving a webinar on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud 2013 – Opportunities, Trends and the Impact of Big Data with Information Management, October 22 at 9am ET. Are you using or considering using predictive analytics in the cloud to improve your business? Is the growth in big data impacting your decision? Predictive analytics and [...]

This is the last week for our 2013 survey on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud – Use Cases, Trends and Big Data.  Please go right now and take the survey here – it’s quick , anonymous and you have a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card. There’s been tremendous growth cloud and predictive analytics both [...]