FileNet and Fair Isaac Team to Offer Powerful Business Process and Decision Management Solution

MINNEAPOLIS & COSTA MESA, CA – Fair Isaac Corporation and FileNet Corporation today announced they have teamed to integrate Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor rules management technology with the award-winning FileNet Business Process Manager (BPM) suite.

The combined solution is designed to enhance an organization’s agility by enabling business users across the enterprise to respond quickly to customer demands, changing regulatory standards and other compelling business events. The ability to make immediate policy changes to business processes without using additional IT resources places decision management strategies in the hands of business managers, helping to reduce unnecessary steps and improve business performance and responsiveness.

“Faced with increasingly competitive markets and stringent regulations, businesses are recognizing the essential role that BPM plays in making informed and timely decisions,” said Martyn Christian, chief marketing officer for FileNet. “By bringing together market leaders in BPM and business rules management, we believe we offer an unrivaled solution that greatly simplifies and reduces the cost of developing, managing and updating highly complex decision-making processes.”

As an industry leader in rules management technology for managing and automating decision management processes and applications, Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor complements FileNet’s Business Process Management offering. The FileNet BPM solution is designed to increase process performance, reduce cycle times and improve productivity by automating, streamlining and optimizing complex processes. Blaze Advisor centralizes the definition, storage and application of the many rules used in business operations to provide organizations with greater automation, more responsiveness to change and less expensive distribution and maintenance of their business policy guidelines.

“In FileNet, we found a BPM partner that matched our commitment to helping companies manage complex decisions and the accompanying business processes,” said Mark Layden, vice president and general manager of Enterprise Decision Management Software at Fair Isaac. “By integrating with FileNet BPM, our customers can now leverage the FileNet P8 platform’s market-leading rules connectivity framework to take advantage of the natural synergies associated with BPM and rules management solutions.”

“The primary purpose of enterprise business rules is to automate decisions within a business process, including kicking off actions in response to decisions,” said John Rymer of Forrester Research in the 2004 Forrester Research, Inc. report The Path to Enterprise Business Rules. “The potential range of decisions and actions is immense, ranging from simple responses to business events to complex evaluations of business documents to determine the correct business process.”

Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor has been listed as a Leader in Gartner, Inc’s Business Rule Engine Magic Quadrants for the past three years. FileNet Business Process Manager has been consistently recognized as a leader in Gartner’s BPM Magic Quadrant since the BPM Magic Quadrant’s inception in 2003. Gartner defines Leaders as vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.

FileNet BPM’s event-driven and highly scalable architecture handles the most complex business processes — involving millions of transactions, thousands of users and multiple business applications. Built on FileNet P8, the leading unified ECM platform, FileNet BPM is essential to the enterprise because it enables organizations to streamline and optimize operations, increase productivity, reduce risk, and make better decisions, faster — ultimately driving significant competitive advantage for organizations.

Blaze Advisor is part of Fair Isaac’s software and solutions for enterprise decision management, which combines data analytics, modeling, and policy-level control to let companies define and manage their automated business systems for improved efficiency and greater profitability. Fair Isaac offers customers a combination of software and services allowing an enterprise to quickly implement customized systems that lower operational costs, reduce risk, and provide greater accuracy and consistency of critical business decisions in interactive and batch applications.