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Decision Management

Sponsored by FICO

FICOFICO™ (NYSE:FIC) is the leader in decision management, transforming business by making every decision count. FICO™ uses predictive analytics to help businesses automate, improve and connect decisions across organizational silos and customer lifecycles. Clients in 80 countries work with FICO to increase customer loyalty and profitability, cut fraud losses, manage credit risk, meet regulatory and competitive demands, and rapidly build market share. Most leading banks and credit card issuers rely on FICO solutions, as do insurers, retailers, healthcare organizations and other companies.

Sponsored Content

Four Imperatives that Make Better Decision Management Essential in Uncertain Times

This white paper shares FICO’s decades of experience helping enterprises compete more effectively using decision management technology.

The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success

This white paper details the 11 secrets to business rule success, and explores how to balance speed and quality when building a rules-based approach to decision management.

FICO™ Blaze Advisor® Business Rules Management

This white paper provides detailed analysis of Blaze Advisor’s functionality, architecture, and deployment, as well as an overview of product strategy.

Free 90-Day Trial Evaluation of FICO™ Blaze Advisor®

Discover how Blaze Advisor enables your enterprise to make faster, more consistent business decisions by automating decision processes.

Blogs

Mutual Need Drives SAP-Microsoft Alliance

Although any time that Microsoft and SAP cooperate on anything it leads to idle speculation about a possible merger, every now and again even these two giants actually wind up doing something that is just driven by the requirements of mutual customers. Such is the case with the latest cooperative...More >

Data Integration and BI: The High Cost of Doing Nothing

Increasingly, data integration and data quality initiatives go hand-in-hand. And with good reason: Experts say it costs $1 to verify a record at the source, $10 to later cleanse and de-dupe it, and $100 if nothing is done, according to a recent Computerworld Technology Briefing on business...More >

The Need for BI Speed

There are a lot of data warehouses out there that can no longer keep up with the pace of the business. Most data warehouses were built on the assumption that performance would hardly be an issue. The business side wasn’t expected to stress the platform by making too many queries, and just about...More >

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Articles & Interviews

Microsoft's PowerPivot Puts BI Users More in Control

Ann All spoke with several employees of SharePoint360 , a SharePoint hosting and consulting company specializing in business intelligence that is included in Microsoft's Technical Adoption Program (TAP) for the Gemini technology. (Gemini was recently renamed PowerPivot.) SharePoint360 is the... More >

Have We Lost Control of the Business Intelligence Investment?

Business executives know that one of the surest ways to lose management control is to skip the standard practice of auditing business investments. Unfortunately, that is exactly the current state for business intelligence. Spending on business intelligence assets in the global marketplace has... More >

Desire to Reveal Hidden Insights Driving Growth in Text Analytics

Ann All spoke with Seth Grimes, owner of and principal consultant for Alta Plana , a company that provides business analytics strategy consulting and implementation services with a focus on advanced analytics (BI, text mining, data visualization, analytical databases, complex event processing)... More >

Apparent Networks Launches Cloud Performance Center

Mike Vizard over at our CTO Edge site discusses a free service from Apparent Networks that sets out to allay fears businesses have regarding the network performance of the wide area networks that link them to their cloud computing providers. Apparent Networks' Cloud Performance Center offers performance data on... More >

IBM Offers BI Application Service

IBM is making use of its Cognos acquisition to offer the IBM Smart Analytics Cloud . Our CTO Edge site reports that the BI application service will allow customers: to roll out an implementation of Cognos 8 running on top of virtual machine software running on top of a Linux operating system hosted on an IBM... More >

IBM's Finger in Every Pie: The Cloud, Analytics, Health Care

IBM is offering cloud services that offer a place for developers to create and test cloud applications, reports ReadWriteWeb . IBM Smart Business Development and Test on IBM Cloud is designed to eliminate the time developers spend setting up their test environments. It will support third-party and open source tools. ... More >

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