MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2005--

Magic Quadrant Report Positions Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor in "Leaders"

Quadrant Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC), the leading provider of analytics and decision technology, today announced that it is again positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Business Rules Engines(1). According to Gartner, "Leaders" are providers 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.

Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor provides any business that makes large numbers of dynamic, high-impact operational decisions, with more complete capabilities for accelerating the development and deployment of decision management applications. It is designed to meet the most demanding individual workgroup applications, as well as serve the needs of large-scale national and multinational companies, who rely upon a variety of technology platforms and legacy systems using multiple programming languages.

With true cross-platform support ranging from COBOL to Java and Microsoft .NET, Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor is designed to meet the needs of companies seeking an open solution that helps them modernize their enterprise decision systems while they continue to leverage existing applications. Blaze Advisor is a key component 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.

"Fair Isaac's continued recognition in the industry is a testament to our employees, our world-class customers and our continued commitment to providing best-in-class rules management technology," said Tom Grudnowski, CEO of Fair Isaac. "We believe that we are well positioned to continue this momentum and extend our market lead and recognition beyond 2005, as we continue to push business rules technology development to the next level."

Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor gives business users and analysts a powerful tool to update business strategies and ensure governance across critical enterprise information systems, 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, and requiring IT to simply link and test the final applications. Blaze Advisor is the first leading rules engine to support Java, .NET and COBOL deployment of the same rules. The multi-platform solution supports Web Services, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platforms, Microsoft .NET and Component Object Model (COM), and COBOL for IBM mainframes.

For complete details on Gartner's 2005 Business Rules Magic Quadrant, visit the Fair Isaac Web site at www.fairisaac.com/rules.

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.

Magic Quadrant Disclaimer

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted February 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

(1) Magic Quadrant for Business Rules Engines, 2005, G00125811. J. Sinur, February 8, 2005.

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