In a bid to bring advanced decision management and mathematical optimization technology to multiple industries in Africa, Global analytics software provider FICO has decided to seal a partnership deal with FPG Technologies & Solutions Limited.
With the partnership deal, FPG will sell, implement and support FICO® Blaze Advisor® decision rules management system and FICO® Xpress Optimization, leading tools that businesses use to automate high-volume decisions, rapidly change strategies and leverage advanced analytics to improve performance.
Commenting on the deal, Mark Farmer, who manages partner relationships for FICO in EMEA, explained that rules management and mathematical optimization are the core technologies for better decisions.
“FPG has deep domain expertise in multiple industries in West Africa, and can help businesses there use these technologies to transform their performance,” he said.
Also, Rex Mafiana, CEO of FPG, noted that West African companies are engaged in digital transformation initiatives that have gotten extra momentum from the pandemic.
“Across all industries, it’s critical to be able to automate more decisions, to change strategies faster, and to increase efficiency. FICO has world-class tools that can help our customers be more competitive, and also help our own development team develop new products,” he added.
As FICO’s flagship rules authoring solution, FICO® Blaze Advisor® decision rules management system maximizes control over high-volume operational decisions. Blaze Advisor provides businesses across multiple industries with a scalable solution that delivers unprecedented agility and actionability for smarter, transparent, and better business decisions.
FICO® Xpress Optimization allows businesses to easily build, deploy and use optimization solutions that crunch through millions of potential scenarios to find the ideal solution. Standard capabilities include scalable high-performance solvers and algorithms, flexible modeling environments, rapid application development, comparative scenario analysis and reporting capabilities, for on-premises and cloud installations.
FICO was named Best Technology Provider for Data Analytics at the 2022 Credit Awards, and a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Decisions Platforms.