IBM and Fair Isaac Expand Alliance Delivering EDM Solutions
IBM and Fair Isaac have expanded their cooperative efforts into a joint strategic and global marketing alliance. Under an agreement announced recently, Fair Isaac’s enterprise decision management (EDM) solutions, which typically support decision-making in industries such as finance, insurance and healthcare, will be centered on IBM’s service-oriented architecture (SOA) products.”Both Fair Isaac and IBM fully embrace and support SOA to deliver open-standards business applications to any number of users regardless of their existing technology infrastructure” said Mark Hanny, vice president of strategic partnerships, IBM.Both companies will work together to build the next generation of Fair Isaac’s enterprise decision management applications on IBM’s DB2, WebSphere, Rational, and Lotus product lines. The two companies will also focus their development on applications running on IBM’s Portal and System z and p platforms.”Our joint clients can now more easily overcome one of the key challenges of implementing an SOA infrastructure to deliver Information on Demand (IOD) managing, integrating, and unlocking value from their business information and become more flexible to better compete globally,” added Hanny.The new strategic alliance agreement also grew out of a need to integrate four of Fair Isaac’s products, including Capstone (origination), Finance (account management), Debt Manager (collections and recovery) and Falcon (fraud prevention).The agreement includes joint development and co-marketing and sales of applications aimed at financial services. IBM’s Global Business Services division will provide systems integration support.
