webMethods to Enhance webMethods Fabric With Rule Management Component From Fair Isaac
November 17 2005 - 8:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Partnership Complements webMethods' Industry-Leading BPM and BAM
Components, Promises Enterprises a More Turnkey Solution for
Optimizing Business Processes FAIRFAX, Va., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ --
Integration World 2005 -- webMethods, Inc. (NASDAQ:WEBM), a leading
business integration and optimization software company, today
announced a strategic partnership and licensing agreement with Fair
Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC), a leading provider of analytics and
decision technology. Under the terms of the agreement, webMethods
will incorporate components of Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor as the
embedded rules engine standard for future editions of webMethods
Fabric(TM), the company's flagship solution for process-based,
service- oriented total business integration. The announcement was
made in conjunction with Integration World 2005, the webMethods
user conference being held this week in Atlanta. The availability
of an embedded business rules engine within upcoming versions of
webMethods Fabric is designed to further enhance the significant
value offered by the product suite's existing business process
management (BPM) and business activity monitoring (BAM)
capabilities. Specifically, it will provide business users with
added versatility and ease-of-use in the way in which business
rules, policies and strategies are created, managed and changed
within the webMethods Fabric operating environment. This reinforces
webMethods Fabric's position as the premier platform for optimizing
all enterprise business processes. "Enterprises across numerous
industries choose webMethods Fabric as their platform for total
business integration due to its ability to address the full gamut
of their business process requirements," said Marc Breissinger,
vice president and chief architect, webMethods, Inc. "The ability
to define, implement and manage the business rules associated with
these business processes plays a significant role in enhancing
these efforts. With our commitment to provide best-in-class
technologies that deliver enhanced business agility and
predictability, we see Fair Isaac -- with its market leadership and
core competency in the area of business rules management -- as the
obvious strategic partner for delivering this additional value to
our customers." A key benefit of the partnership is the tremendous
control that both webMethods Fabric and Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor
place in the hands of line-of- business users. By offering
best-in-class rules management as a component of webMethods Fabric,
business users will be able to more readily adapt and more
consistently apply external business rules to their business
processes -- making on-the-fly changes to business processes and
seeing their impact immediately on a variety of modeled scenarios
-- without concern for the underlying programming requirements. The
availability of Blaze Advisor as a fully-integrated component of
webMethods Fabric's service-oriented architecture ultimately means
that business rules can now be applied to specific business
processes with greater speed, precision and ease, while also
reducing the development burden on IT. This allows enterprises to
achieve the maximum business benefit from deploying these critical
technologies while simultaneously reducing their total cost of
ownership. webMethods' selection of Fair Isaac was a result of a
competitive review that looked for an off-the-shelf rules solution
that would allow customers to implement best practices in rules
management and move away from proprietary, acquired and homegrown
solutions system logic. Fair Isaac's recognized technology
leadership, market leader status and financial stability, coupled
with Blaze Advisor's flexibility, robustness and completeness
complements webMethods Fabric and webMethods' mission to support
business integration at the process level. Blaze Advisor is part of
Fair Isaac's enterprise decision management technology suite, 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. "As enterprises
increasingly adopt a process-centric approach to IT, webMethods
Fabric has emerged as a leading platform for not only enabling this
transition, but also for accelerating the realization of strategic
business benefits from integration," said Carole-Ann Matignon, vice
president of product management, enterprise decision management, at
Fair Isaac. "By delivering Blaze Advisor via the service-oriented
architecture enabled by webMethods Fabric, users can more easily
apply and adapt the business logic governing their key enterprise
business processes. This heightened level of flexibility underlies
one of the principal benefits of Blaze Advisor, which is its
ability to routinely and consistently apply business rules to a
variety of scenarios." 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 http://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 http://www.fairisaac.com/rules. About
webMethods, Inc. webMethods (NASDAQ:WEBM) provides business
integration software to integrate, assemble and optimize available
IT assets to drive business process productivity. webMethods
delivers an innovative, enterprise-class business integration
platform that incorporates proven integration technology with next
generation capabilities into one interoperable set of tools that
delivers a unique combination of efficiency, agility and control.
webMethods combines industry leadership with a zealous commitment
to customers to deliver tangible business value to more than 1,300
global customers. webMethods is headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with
offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan. More
information about the company can be found at
http://www.webmethods.com/. The webMethods name and logo are
registered trademarks of, and webMethods Fabric is a trademark of,
webMethods, Inc. All other marks mentioned are trademarks or
service marks of their respective companies. DATASOURCE:
webMethods, Inc. CONTACT: Media: John Conley, +1-703-980-8259, , or
Brianna Boyle, +1-703-460-6034, , both of webMethods, Inc.; or
Angela Carlson of Fair Isaac Corporation, +1-415-492-5373, , or
Investors- Analysts: John D. Emerick, Jr., +1-800-213-5542, , both
of Fair Isaac Corporation Web site: http://www.webmethods.com/
http://www.fairisaac.com/rules
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