{"id":11825,"date":"2023-02-05T09:33:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T09:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11825"},"modified":"2023-02-05T09:33:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T09:33:23","slug":"digital-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11825","title":{"rendered":"FICO, FPG Technologies &#038; Solutions LTD Partner To Help West African Firms Accelerate Digital Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">LAGOS, Nigeria &amp; JOHANNESBURG (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s4\">BUSINESS WIRE<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s4\">\/<a href=\"http:\/\/aetoswire.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AETOSWire<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">) Global analytics software provider FICO today announced a partnership with FPG Technologies &amp; Solutions LTD, a member of FlexiP Group, to bring advanced decision management and analytics tools to companies across West Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">FPG will sell, implement and support FICO\u00ae Blaze Advisor\u00ae decision rules management system and FICO\u00ae Xpress Optimization, leading tools that businesses use to automate high-volume decisions, rapidly change strategies and leverage advanced analytics to improve performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">More information:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flexipgroup.com%2F&amp;esheet=53294522&amp;newsitemid=20230202005027&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flexipgroup.com%2F&amp;index=1&amp;md5=a1825b3b60137659ed54f7f935d47ee8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s4\">http:\/\/www.flexipgroup.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWest African companies are engaged in digital transformation initiatives that have gotten extra momentum from the pandemic,\u201d said Rex Mafiana, CEO of FlexiP Group, a leading enterprise IT solutions provider and systems integrator, with specialties in financial services, telecommunication, energy, oil &amp; gas, and healthcare. \u201cAcross all industries, it\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cRules management and mathematical optimization are the core technologies for better decisions,\u201d said Mark Farmer, who manages partner relationships for FICO in EMEA. \u201cFPG has deep domain expertise in multiple industries in West Africa, and can help businesses there use these technologies to transform their performance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">As FICO\u2019s flagship rules authoring solution,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fico.com%2Fen%2Fproducts%2Ffico-blaze-advisor-decision-rules-management-system&amp;esheet=53294522&amp;newsitemid=20230202005027&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=FICO%26%23174%3B+Blaze+Advisor%26%23174%3B+decision+rules+management+system&amp;index=2&amp;md5=6bc7bbb94ed86f7de1cf556ef4cd4786\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s4\">FICO\u00ae Blaze Advisor\u00ae decision rules management system<\/span><\/a>\u00a0maximizes 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fico.com%2Fen%2Fproducts%2Ffico-xpress-optimization&amp;esheet=53294522&amp;newsitemid=20230202005027&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=FICO%26%23174%3B+Xpress+Optimization&amp;index=3&amp;md5=0328f33d69bbfd68abf344f01b56d3d1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FICO\u00ae Xpress Optimization<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0allows businesses to easily build, deploy and use optimization solutions that crunch through millions of potential scenarios to find the ideal solution. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">FICO was named Best Technology Provider for Data Analytics at the 2022 Credit Awards, and a Leader in The Forrester Wave\u2122: Digital Decisions Platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">About FICO<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">FICO holds more than 200 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in nearly 120 countries do everything from protecting 2.6 billion payment cards from fraud, to helping people get credit, to ensuring that millions of airplanes and rental cars are in the right place at the right time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Learn more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fico.com%2F&amp;esheet=53294522&amp;newsitemid=20230202005027&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fico.com&amp;index=4&amp;md5=649ff657e6a586f54ad03cc939f671eb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s4\">https:\/\/www.fico.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">About FPG<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">FPG Technologies &amp; Solutions Limited (a member of FlexiP Group) is an information technology company committed to helping you and your organization achieve extreme business agility with confidence!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fflexipgroup.com%2Fabout-fpg-ts%2F&amp;esheet=53294522&amp;newsitemid=20230202005027&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=https%3A%2F%2Fflexipgroup.com%2Fabout-fpg-ts%2F&amp;index=5&amp;md5=3ed0d6d1140ac31dcf7df28a291b889a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/flexipgroup.com\/about-fpg-ts\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">FICO and Blaze Advisor are registered trademarks of Fair Isaac Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Photos\/Multimedia Gallery Available: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/53294522\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s4\">https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/53294522\/en<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">*Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aetoswire.com\/en\/news\/0202202330182\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s5\"> AETOSWire<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Contacts<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">FICO PR for Africa<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Nichollars Khoza<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Britespark Communications<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">076 099 2099<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">010 001 0113<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"mailto:fico@britespark.co.za\">fico@britespark.co.za<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">FPG MEDIA\/PRESS<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><br \/>\nChidiebere Nwankwo<br \/>\nStraightLine Media Mgt &amp; Communications<br \/>\n08082677724; 09097999485<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:straightlinemmc@gmail.com\"><span class=\"s4\">straightlinemmc@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global analytics software provider FICO today announced a partnership with FPG Technologies &#038; Solutions LTD, a member of FlexiP Group, to bring advanced decision management and analytics tools to companies across West Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1577,6403,6405,6404],"class_list":["post-11825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-digital-transformation","tag-fico","tag-fpg-technologies-solutions-ltd","tag-west-african-firms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11827,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions\/11827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}