FICO, FPG Technologies Partner to Drive Digital Transformation in W/Africa

Nosa Alekhuogie

FICO, a global analytics software provider and FPG Technologies & Solutions LTD, a member of FlexiP Group, have partnered to bring advanced decision management and analytics tools to companies across West Africa.

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.

In a statement released to the media, the CEO of FlexiP Group, a leading enterprise IT solutions provider and systems integrator, Mr. Rex Mafiana, said: “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.”

Mark Farmer, who manages partner relationships for FICO in EMEA, said: “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.”

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.