Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor for .NET Receives Microsoft Certification

    Business Editors/High-Tech Editors

    MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2005--

    Leading Business Rules Management Software is Certified to Work with Microsoft Window's Client and Server as Well as Microsoft
    Managed Code

    Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC), the leading provider of analytics and decision technology, today announced the certification of Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor for .NET, a robust rules management solution that extends the Microsoft .NET Framework. Microsoft's certification of Blaze Advisor for .NET builds upon Fair Isaac's relationship as a Microsoft Certified Partner and expands the enterprise reach of Fair Isaac's leading business rules management software.
    Microsoft .NET is software that connects people, information, systems and devices through the use of Web services. Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor for .NET enables businesses to incorporate rules-based decisioning software that cooperates with and upgrades existing applications, regardless of platform or programming language. Companies can design, deploy, execute and maintain business rules and policies as part of an automated business strategy application designed to achieve rapid ROI without being restricted by current and future technology investments.
    Microsoft's certification of Blaze Advisor for .NET ensures that Fair Isaac's powerful business rules management and execution technology is fully compatible with Windows clients, Windows servers, and .NET Managed Code.
    "Fair Isaac is committed to providing open-application development tools that empower business strategy rather than constrict it," said James Taylor, marketing vice president of enterprise decision management at Fair Isaac. "The certification of Blaze Advisor for .NET provides IT leaders with unparalleled integration options, enhanced performance and greater resources that allow companies to take full advantage of their existing solutions, unlock key data and equip their enterprises to harness the power and flexibility of .NET technologies."
    With true cross-platform support ranging from COBOL to Java and .NET, Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor for .NET is designed to meet the needs of large-scale national and multinational companies that are looking for an open solution to facilitate modernization of enterprise decision systems while continuing to leverage existing applications. It gives business users and analysts a powerful tool to update business strategies and ensure governance across critical enterprise information systems by using straightforward business terms.
    The control of the business logic embedded in IT systems allows business users to maintain application behavior without IT assistance, using intuitive rules maintenance applications. This increases business agility, allowing rules to be modified quickly and easily, requiring IT to simply link and test the final applications. Blaze Advisor for .NET enables users to develop rule services that interoperate with Microsoft .NET languages such as C#, Visual Basic .NET, and J#, as well as XML, COM, messaging, databases, and Web Services.
    Blaze Advisor is part of Fair Isaac's software and solutions for enterprise decision management (EDM), which combines data analytics, modeling and policy-level control to allow companies to define and manage their automated business systems for improved efficiency and greater profitability.

    About Fair Isaac

    Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC) is the preeminent provider of creative analytics that unlock value for people, businesses and industries. The company's predictive modeling, decision analysis, intelligence management, decision management systems and consulting services power billions of mission-critical customer decisions a year. Founded in 1956, Fair Isaac helps thousands of companies in over 60 countries acquire customers more efficiently, increase customer value, reduce fraud and credit losses, lower operating expenses and enter new markets more profitably. Most leading banks and credit card issuers rely on Fair Isaac solutions, as do insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers, healthcare organizations, and government agencies. Through the www.myfico.com Web site, consumers use the company's FICO(R) scores, the standard measure of credit risk, to manage their financial health. For more information, visit 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 for .NET offering, and the benefits to be derived from this offering, 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 any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the implementation, use and functionality of the offering, the risks that customers will not perceive material benefits from the offering, failure of the product to deliver the expected results, the possibility of errors or defects in the offering, 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 on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2004, and quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31, 2004. 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.

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