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PIN Security and Key Management to Prevent Data Breaches

The financial industry's task in recent months has been to focus on cleaning up from breach aftermaths and scripting customer service and media responses to consumers and reporters alike. Meanwhile, the criminal elements focus on identifying and exploiting additional weaknesses that range from compromising PCI compliant merchants to accessing authorization...

Tags: Payment, Financial, Fair Isaac, Financial Industry, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Security, Viruses And Worms, Finance

White papers 2009-01-01

Beyond BI: Building Intelligence Into Your Operational Decisions

Organizations that are looking to extend the success they have enjoyed with business intelligence are the best candidates to go to the next level, and embed more intelligence into high-volume operational decisions. This discipline which is called Enterprise Decision Management, differs from traditional BI in that it is focused on...

Tags: Decision, Fair Isaac, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2005-04-01

Decision Analysis: Concepts, Tools and Promise

At Fair Isaac, some powerful and unique decision analytic tools have been developed in recent years. These tools add significant value to clients who use our products and services to optimize their strategies. While traditionally the emphasis at Fair Isaac had been on sophisticated prediction technologies, it has shifted in...

Tags: Decision Analysis, Tool, Fair Isaac, Productivity

White papers 2001-05-01

I Don't Want a Relationship - I Want a Box of Frosted Flakes

CRM - Customer Relationship Management - is not a new concept. It is based on the principle that offering increased value to customers through increased relevance makes good business sense. CRM increases the probability that customers will purchase from companies again, that customers will become "Loyal." CRM requires "Getting it...

Tags: CRM, Fair Isaac, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

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IBM goes deeply predictive, announces acquisition of SPSS

IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, at the IBM Smart Analytics System launch event in Hawthorne NY. I’ll blog on IBM’s other...

Tags: Acquisition, Analytics, SPSS Inc., IBM Corp., PA/DM, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Corporate Law, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, James Kobielus

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Fair Isaac Makes Smart Decisions: Cuts Server Count by Two Thirds; Merges 16 Data Centers

Fair Isaac (http://www.fairisaac.com), a leading provider of business analytics software and decision technology, has been helping companies make smarter decisions since 1956. Fair Isaac wanted to upgrade and standardize infrastructure to improve performance and reliability and reduce facility and system maintenance costs. Fair Isaac consolidated data centers and servers using...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Business Analytics, Data Centers, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2007-09-01

Enterprise search marketing $1 billion opportunity: SEM Director CEO interview

Is search engine marketing SEM mission critical to the enterprise?Russ Mann, CEO of SEM Director, asserts it is “the newest critical core competency that the Fortune 500 needs to build in-house.”Mann is convening Fortune 500 and Global 2000 leaders for a two-day enterprise summit in La Jolla later this month...

Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Search, Enterprise, Venture Capital, VC, Internet Data, Marketing, ROI, Metrics, search engine, search engine marketing

Blog posts 2007-01-11

Could Google be using its own AdWords system against its own customers?

Google, the company whos internal motto is, infamously "Do No Evil," is getting some grief from some popular bloggers as well as customers of its automated keyword-based advertising system known as Adwords. If you have a product or service that you think would be helpful to users of Googles search...

Tags: Google Inc., Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Podcasts, General

Blog posts 2006-12-11

Student, a little too spam-sensitive, tries an attack on Brown

Students protest used to take the form of sit-ins and picketing, but when a student wants to raise a ruckus these days, spam about is fair play. Inside Higher Ed reports: It started when Brown University officials sent out an email message asking Wesleyan University students to go to...

Tags: Higher Ed, Education Technology, Sophomore Isaac Levy

Blog posts 2006-11-27

Patents are not property

Patents are not propertyPatents are not PropertyFirst: Please if you do not know anything about a topic then do so some research before you start spouting off, its unprofessional to do otherwise.Second: I will compile a list of the entire US Federal Judicary and have it sent to...

Tags: Intellectual property, blog, Hondas, property right, patent, Thomas Jefferson

Discussion threads 2006-09-14

Google says still not evil

Google's Press day started at 9.30 am but it was closer to 10am by the time I got to the Googleplex H.Q, an hour away and a traffic crawl from San Francisco. One of the security people kindly let me slip in through a side door and into the large,...

Tags: Goog, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-05-10

Free Software Foundation: DRM fundamentally incompatible with FSF princples

Free Software Foundation: DRM fundamentally incompatible with FSF princplesIt Doesn't HelpThat one of the first casualties of DRM was the ability to legaly play DVD movies on Linux.DRM, From Restriction to Exception Management: the Emergence of a Gray ZoneIt is rather striking to see that basically over the last...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Free Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2006-01-18

EU to head down the patent rathole?

EU to head down the patent rathole?Being flat out against patents is not extreme - it is balanced[i]On the other extreme, you have inventors like Dave Winer. Here's a guy who has almost single handedly turned all of software and the Internet on their ears with XML-based RPCs over HTTP...

Tags: patent, software patent, software

Discussion threads 2005-03-07

Mortgage-Related Field Services Firm Delivers Enhanced Services While Reducing Costs

First American Field Services, a provider of property inspections and other field services for the mortgage industry, needed to automate a paper-based system that was bogging down its operations in providing services for some 150,000 properties per month. The company would print out work orders from a legacy system, send...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mortgages, Hardware Upgrade, Microsoft Development Tools, .Net, Finance, Capital Structures, Hardware, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

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