FICO reduces time to value for analytics solutions by up to 70
percent with Red Hat's private Platform-as-a-Service offering
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that FICO,
the predictive
analytics and decision management software company, has built and
rapidly scaled the FICO®
Analytic Cloud on OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat's
award-winning private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering.
The FICO Analytic Cloud gives application developers, business users and
FICO partners around the world one-stop access to FICO's best-in-class
analytics and decision management tools and technology, including SaaS
(software-as-a-service) applications for social and mobile customer
engagement, targeted marketing campaign development, delinquent account
management and instant credit decisioning. With OpenShift Enterprise's
development, testing, and hosting environment, FICO can easily build
analytic applications and run them in the cloud architecture, reducing
the time to value by up to 70 percent.
FICO has provided analytics software for more than 50 years to a wide
variety of organizations, including banks, insurers, retailers,
pharmaceutical companies and government agencies. The FICO Analytic
Cloud provides PaaS access to the FICO®
Decision Management Platform, where customers use FICO analytic and
decision tools and technology to create, customize and deploy their
applications and services. FICO deployed OpenShift Enterprise in order
to enable its customers to create hybrid cloud solutions using the FICO
Decision Management Platform and to deploy those solutions both hosted
and on-premise.
FICO also relies on OpenShift's award-winning support, provided by Red
Hat Global Support Services, for sharing technical expertise and helping
address partner issues.
"The relationship we have with those who support OpenShift is more than
I could have ever asked for," said Tony McGivern, CIO of FICO. "I can
make one phone call and have a SWAT team assembled within an hour. When
you're working in a new, innovative, highly advanced development model
like we are today, that's a great source of security."
FICO plans to continue and expand its collaboration with Red Hat through
a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform implementation,
building its internal PaaS offerings around a combination of OpenShift
and OpenStack. FICO is running additional proofs of concept around
Project Atomic, Docker and other open source projects.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
"Platform-as-a-Service is such a powerful technology, and FICO is an
amazing example of a customer that has used OpenShift to not only
transform their internal development organization, but also to bring
their product to market.
"Platform-as-a-Service has become a powerful tool for software firms,
and we have been pleased to work with FICO in this longstanding
collaboration. We look forward to combining the benefits of enterprise
PaaS and OpenStack in FICO's Decision Management Platform to bring these
cloud assets to the widest variety of users."
Tony McGivern, CIO, FICO
"Not only are we using OpenStack and OpenShift as the underlying engines
for the FICO Analytic Cloud, we'll be building all of our internal PaaS
offers around those two products. Our relationship with Red Hat almost
spans our entire portfolio, and is a good example of what we consider
value in a vendor. It's more than a partnership. It's a shared-goal,
shared-vision, shared-outcome relationship where everybody's in it for
exactly the same reason, and mutual goals produce outstanding outcomes."
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