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Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor 6.5 for .NET Brings Enterprise-Class Business Rules Management to Microsoft Platform

Minneapolis, Minn. (PRWEB) September 13, 2007 -- Fair Isaac Corporation (www.fairisaac.com) (NYSE:FIC), the leading provider of analytics and decision management (http://www.fairisaac.com/fic/en/our-approach/enterprise-decision-management/) technology, today announced the availability of Blaze Advisor? 6.5 for .NET. This latest offering brings enterprise-class business rules management capabilities to Microsoft's industry-leading software for connecting information, people, systems and devices through Web services.

As a core part of Fair Isaac's technologies for Enterprise Decision Management (EDM), Blaze Advisor enables non-programmers to design, deploy, execute and maintain business rules (http://www.fairisaac.com/fic/en/our-approach/business-rules/) and policies as part of an automated business application. Blaze Advisor 6.5 for the Microsoft .NET environment allows businesses to modernize existing applications and deploy new services to their enterprise systems by leveraging a shared repository of rules and analytics, and a common development environment across different platforms and programming languages.

As a key member of the Microsoft Business Process Alliance formed to drive mainstream adoption of Business Process Management (BPM), Fair Isaac is delivering a powerful set of end-to-end tools on top of Microsoft's business process platform: BizTalk Server, SharePoint Server, and .NET Framework.

"The capabilities being delivered in Blaze Advisor 6.5 for .NET are making BPM solutions more broadly accessible and helping companies take advantage of BPM tools based on the Microsoft platform," said Burley Kawasaki, Director of Product Management in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft Corp. "Blaze Advisor's continued support for the .NET Framework demonstrates Fair Isaac's commitment to customers' needs for a more flexible application development platform."

"Blaze Advisor 6.5 for .NET offers enterprises with diverse IT environments as well as dedicated Microsoft shops greater agility and flexibility throughout the business rules lifecycle," said Carole-Ann Matignon, vice president of Enterprise Decision Management Technologies at Fair Isaac. "This latest version of Blaze Advisor enables Microsoft customers to quickly adapt their operational decisions to changing business and regulatory demands. It delivers comprehensive support for moving business rules from development to production, and helps businesses manage predictive models as part of their rules repository."

Details of Advanced Capabilities

?    Increased Accuracy and Reliability -- New capabilities in version 6.5 allow business users to better verify and validate the completeness and consistency of rules across the rules lifecycle, significantly increasing the accuracy and reliability of the inferencing process. Blaze Advisor 6.5 for .NET also features comprehensive support for business rules unit and regression testing to validate rules.

?    Deployment Platform for Predictive Models -- Version 6.5 includes tight integration with Model Builder for Predictive Analytics 3.6, Fair Isaac's software platform for developing and deploying predictive models. This allows for the swift and flexible application of analytics as an essential decision element, helping businesses maximize the precision of every decision.

?    Rapid Application Development -- Release 6.5 also integrates with SmartForms, Blaze-Advisor technology that enables users to create smart, interactive data and logic-aware web applications with ease.

?    Support for Popular Microsoft Technologies -- Microsoft-specific functionality in Blaze Advisor 6.5 for .NET includes support for .NET Framework versions 2.0 and 3.0, Internet Explorer 7 and the Windows Vista operating system. Blaze Advisor 6.5 for .NET also introduces support for x64, allowing business rules to be deployed on 64-bit Microsoft architectures.

Using Fair Isaac and Microsoft's complementary business rules and .NET technologies allows companies in many industries to support their most complex business applications. Financial institutions such as banks and insurance companies can, for example, update a host of decentralized channels. Blaze Advisor for .NET allows them to create reusable business components that can be leveraged across channels - the branch, storefront advisor, call centers, the internet and others - to achieve better, cost-based management and cross-channel consistency. In addition, organizations can improve experiences by treating customers more consistently across channels, and by helping internal staff share and employ best practices for customer service across channels.

About Fair Isaac

Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC) combines trusted advice, world-class analytics and innovative applications to help businesses make smarter decisions. Fair Isaac's solutions and technologies for Enterprise Decision Management turn strategy into action and elevate business performance by giving organizations the power to automate more decisions, improve the quality of their decisions, and connect decisions across their business. Clients in 80 countries work with Fair Isaac to increase customer loyalty and profitability, cut fraud losses, manage credit risk, meet regulatory and competitive demands, and rapidly build market share. Fair Isaac also helps millions of individuals manage their credit health through the www.myFICO.com website. Learn more about Fair Isaac at www.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 and Model Builder product offerings and the benefits to be derived from these product offerings, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including the success of the Company's Enterprise Decision Management strategy, any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the implementation, use and functionality of the offerings, the risks that customers will not perceive material benefits from the offerings, failure of the products to deliver the expected results, the possibility of errors or defects in the offerings, 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 for the year ended September 30, 2006, and quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2007. 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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John D. Emerick, Jr.

Fair Isaac Corporation

(800) 213-5542

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Fair Isaac Corporation

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