Appistry Announces Support for Fair Isaac’s Blaze Advisor™, Offering Increased Agility for Enterprise Decision Management Deployments

Appistry Announces Support for Fair Isaac’s Blaze Advisor™, Offering Increased Agility for Enterprise Decision Management Deployments

Combined capabilities will help businesses cost-effectively run large-scale, mission-critical applications

Appistry, the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric software, today announced from Fair Isaac’s InterACT 07 conference the successful integration of Blaze Advisor™ business rules management system and Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (EAF). Deploying the solutions jointly helps customers increase business agility, while dramatically reducing the cost of running and managing large-scale, enterprise decision management (EDM) systems.

Appistry EAF is a grid-based application platform that dramatically simplifies the process of developing highly scalable, extremely reliable applications, and deploying them on networks of inexpensive, commodity-grade hardware. The integration of Blaze Advisor applications with Appistry EAF combines Fair Isaac’s powerful rules management capabilities and advanced RETE III inference engine with the “scale-out” virtualization, software-based reliability, and automated management capabilities of an Appistry application fabric.

“Our alliance with Appistry gives customers the ability to increase or decrease capacity on demand using commodity-grade computers,” said Bill Waid, vice president of EDM technologies at Fair Isaac. “This allows organizations to differentiate themselves from their competition by driving increasingly sophisticated, yet operational decision-making on a completely scalable, high-performance platform.”

The high performance and agility of Blaze Advisor complements the nimble environment created by Appistry EAF, yielding compelling benefits for enterprise customers, including:
Increased Agility: With Blaze Advisor running atop Appistry EAF, customers are able to easily increase capacity—on-demand—allowing them to more flexibly manage the demands of increased volume or seasonal business requirements.
Decreased Time-To-Market: Large-scale applications based on Appistry EAF may be delivered more rapidly, with developers shielded from the complexity of distributed systems development.
Improved Dependability: Because Appistry EAF transparently provides reliability and high availability to Blaze Advisor applications, customers are able to readily meet the service-level requirements demanded by their businesses.
Enhanced Price-Performance: Using Appistry EAF, joint customers are able to deploy applications developed with Blaze Advisor across an easily-managed fabric of inexpensive servers, allowing them to dramatically reduce infrastructure costs.

“Today’s ‘real-time enterprise’ increasingly depends on enterprise decision management technology to help make better decisions more quickly,” said Sam Charrington, vice president of product management and marketing with Appistry. “By integrating Fair Isaac’s leading rules management product with our application fabric software, we’re giving joint customers a significant advantage in the race to increased agility and competitiveness.”

The companies invite interested parties to visit www.appistry.com/special/blaze to register for informative Web seminars and download additional information about deploying grid-enabled rules engines and enterprise decision management systems.

About Appistry

Appistry’s flagship product, Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric, delivers the combined benefits of grid computing and virtualization by allowing customers to rapidly create highly scalable service-oriented applications and readily deploy them across a virtualized “grid” of inexpensive computers. As a result, Appistry customers, such as FedEx, Northrop Grumman and GeoEye, are able to quickly and inexpensively bring new capabilities to market, with the agility, dependability and scale demanded by their businesses. For more information, visit www.appistry.com, or call 888-APP-0111 (888-277-0111).
Contacts

Connecting Point Communications/Appistry
Anastasia Marin, 415-442-4030
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