Decision Management - a Weblog

A new way to visualize rules

2011-11-01T10:14:51-07:00

I am very happy to announce that we launched FICOTM Blaze Advisor® 7.0 for Java today at FICO World, our annual conference, which is taking place in New York City this week. This new release brings the full functionality of...

New technique for reject inference enables better, easier reconstruction

2011-08-24T10:00:45-07:00

Earlier this week my colleagues presented a webinar on dual score reject inference, which was very well attended and sparked several great questions. The central idea is to inject the historical pattern of reasonable accept and reject decisions, along with...

Energizing the future with analytics – Insights from INFORMS 2010

2010-11-12T12:40:20-08:00

The final sessions wrapped up on Wednesday for INFORMS 2010 Annual Meeting in Austin, and it was great to see all of the innovative ways that optimization and operations research techniques are being applied to solve problems that range from...

FICO Enhances Analytic Products to Solve Ultra-Large Problems Faster

2010-11-04T16:07:58-07:00

There are a lot of great things happening in FICO’s Decision Management Tools group these days. This week saw the release of important enhancements to two major components of our analytic portfolio, FICO™ Xpress Optimization Suite 7.1 and FICO™ Model...

All in the family not yet at the table: Building Business Capability (BBC) conference missed the opportunity to bring together Analytics and Rules

2010-11-03T11:13:33-07:00

While this year’s Business Rules Forum conference broadened its scope to a more comprehensive “business agility” focus (and formally added the Business Process Forum to the mix), it came up short by failing to properly integrate Analytics. Sure, the Predictive...

Shifting from Outputs to Outcomes – Insights from Gartner ITxpo 2010

2010-10-29T17:03:11-07:00

There was a lot of talk about cloud computing last week at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2010 in Orlando, and we made our own announcement about support for Microsoft Azure, but Gartner also had a clear message to the CIOs...

FICO to Present at Gartner ITxpo 2010

2010-09-14T13:02:36-07:00

Clarke Patterson, Sr. Director of Product Marketing and Don Griest, Sr. Director of Product Management will be co-presenting at this years’ Gartner ITxpo event in Orlando, Florida in October. Talking about the role of decision improvement in implementing a successful...

New Name, New Perspectives, New Voices

2010-04-03T19:07:25-07:00

New Name, New Perspectives, New Voices Welcome to our revamped and renamed Decision Management blog. The decision management team here at FICO decided to drop “Enterprise” from the title in the spirit of Occam’s Razor (“plurality should not be posited...

The New Face of Uncertainty

2010-01-12T12:40:32-08:00

-- Posted by Carole-Ann I have been quite busy in the past few weeks briefing industry analysts on the discipline of Decision Modeling and Optimization. We learn decision modeling at school of course but it seems quite under-exploited in the...

BPM Market Consolidation

2010-01-11T06:27:01-08:00

-- Posted by Carole-Ann What a busy new year in the BPM space! Not too long ago IBM acquired Lombardi. This is quite an event as Lombardi was seen as one of the most advanced, most innovative vendor in the...