Fair Isaac^® Blaze Advisor^® business rules management

Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor is the world's leading business rules management system, maximizing control over high volume operational decisions. Blaze Advisor provides companies across industries with a scalable solution that delivers unprecedented agility and actionability for smarter business decisions.

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Key Benefits

Make faster, more consistent business decision
Automation of decision processes minimizes the need for manual reviews, while ensuring consistency. The Blaze Advisor system delivers the highest decision processing speeds, for any number of rules at any level of complexity.
Change rules quickly with improved business agility
Blaze Advisor is the most advanced, trusted and agile business rules management system on the market. It is a complete tool for developing, simulating, optimizing and implementing rule changes faster than the competition, so you can respond quickly to changes in market dynamics.
Reduce time to market
Blaze Advisor helps you go to market quickly with application development that is 25% faster than conventional methods. Instead of coding rules in programming languages, new applications are developed using a rules language that closely approximates how business people think about their business, reducing the opportunity for errors or misunderstanding. Business users can change rules at any time, without disrupting operations and without IT assistance.
Reduce total cost of ownership
With an easy-to-use interface, natural language business rules and open architecture, Blaze Advisor helps you reduce operational costs. Reduce your initial costs by up to 80% with quicker and more accurate development of applications. Reduce maintenance costs can by up to 75% with business users doing most of the updates and enhancements.

Feature Highlights

Provides an integrated environment for development, authoring and testing
Multiple methods can be used for rule creation and management, including decision trees, scorecards, decision tables, formula builder, graphical decision flows and customized templates.
Facilitates collaboration
The Blaze Advisor system's enterprise rule repository enables developers to work in a coordinated manner as teams and leverage each other's work by sharing and reusing rules, rule sets, rule flows and object models. Additionally, project comparison of two projects in the same repository or across repositories identifies all the differences, with information on how they are different.
Enables users to add and manage an unlimited number of rules
Groups of rules can be defined and maintained in easy-to-use constructs such as decision tables and decision trees.
Monitors decision performance
Blaze Advisor monitors the business performance captured through user-defined events, providing the building blocks for strategy orchestration and champion/challenger strategies.
Simulates results
The Decision Simulator module uses historical data to analyze the potential business impact of rules prior to moving them into production. Its wizards, pre-packaged templates and reports make it easy for business users to flexibly configure and run simulations for their specific needs.
Runs on an open system
The Blaze Advisor system's open architecture enables ease of integration with any computing environment and accepts inputs from multiple databases, XML documents, Java objects, .NET/COM objects, and COBOL copybooks.
Executes rules based on the most advanced inferencing technology
Blaze Advisor makes exclusive use of Rete III, the most advanced commercially available inference engine, which benchmarks more than 300% faster than competitive engines at the highest levels of complexity.
Provides complete rule tracking and version control
Blaze Advisor keeps track of changes to rules over time, allowing viewing of past versions, audits of who made changes at what time, and return to previous versions if necessary. Security and locking mechanisms allow organizations to manage simultaneous user changes from multiple locations without conflict.

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Dell Financial Services Creates a Universal Decision Engine with Fair Isaac Decision Management

Due to stellar growth since its inception in 1997, the scope of Dell Financial Services' decision making was becoming increasingly more complex with higher performance demands. To meet those demands, it worked with Fair Isaac to develop a new Universal Decision Engine platform for improving origination risk and fraud decisions, which included the Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor system. With a powerful and flexible rule-based decision system, Dell now performs a far greater number of automated customer decisions with greater precision.

"We were looking to replatform and reinvigorate our entire originations system, and Fair Isaac was really able to help us develop a comprehensive vision. We didn't want to put another patch on the problem."

-Brian Burdick, Senior Risk Officer, Dell Financial Services

Product Reviews

Butler Group’s Technology Audit of Fair Isaac® Blaze Advisor® 6.5
A deeper look into the product functionality, operations, emphasis, deployment and strategy, including a summary of key findings.
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Recent Awards

Yphise names Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor "best software product"
Yphise has awarded Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor its prestigious Yphise AWARD following a comprehensive assessment of competing products by ISO 9001:2000-certified methodology.
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Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor Earns Prestigious Insurance Industry Award
Fair Isaac has received the Innovative Implementation Award from The Association for Co-Operative Operations Research and Development (ACORD), the worldwide insurance industry standards body. The award recognizes Fair Isaac for its business value and innovative application of ACORD standards.
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Fair Isaac® Blaze Advisor® 6.5 awarded InfoWorld 2008 Technology of the Year Award — Best Business Rules Management System
Blaze Advisor 6.5 enhances the verification and testing of business rules, supports sophisticated lifecycle management and better integrates predictive analytic models.
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Product Sheets

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Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor for COBOL (PDF)
Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor for Java (PDF)
Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor for .NET (PDF)
What's New in Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor 6.5 (PDF)

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Conference

InterACT 09: The New Face of Risk

March 10-13, 2009, New York City
Hear customer successes, exchange ideas and see
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Community

Business Rules and Optimization Community
Join the online forum where industry professionals share their experiences and best practices for making the most of business rules.
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Training

Blaze Advisor Fundamentals
This class provides students with a solid foundation for developing their first Blaze Advisor system enabled application. Included within this class are sections devoted to rule writing, rule authoring, and rule deployment. Students will write rules within the Integrated Development Environment, create easy-to-use templates that allow non-technical business users to create new rules, or modify existing rules. And finally, the students will have an introductory lesson on deploying the rule project as a rule service.

October 7-10, 2008 - San Diego, CA
October 21-24, 2008 - Singapore
October 28-31, 2008 - London, UK
November 4-7, 2008 - San Diego, CA
December 2-5, 2008 - London, UK / San Rafael, CA

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Training

Blaze Advisor Advanced Rule Maintenance Application Development
This course is designed to provide the skills required to develop advanced rule templates and to create rule maintenance application (RMA) for authoring and maintaining complex rules. The students will learn to use the built-in tools and Blaze Advisor API to develop a RMA application for complex rules.

October 14-16, 2008 - San Rafael, CA
November 3-5, 2008 - London, UK
December 9-11, 2008 - San Rafael, CA

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Tradeshow

11th International Business Rules Forum & EDM Summit
Find out what the most experienced practitioners in the world have to say about business rules, enterprise decisioning and related technologies and techniques.

October 26-30, 2008 - Orlando, FL

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Training

Blaze Advisor Rule Application Deployment
This course is designed to provide the skills required to deploy a Blaze Advisor rule application. It will cover both introductory and advanced topics relevant to deploying Blaze Advisor rule projects in either a single-user or multi-tier distributed enterprise environment.