FICO Blaze Advisor Reviews

Name: FICO Blaze Advisor
Brand: FICO
Rating: 4.1 (8 reviews)

Vendor: FICO

4.1 out of 5

8 reviews
77% willing to recommend

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What is FICO Blaze Advisor?

Blaze Advisor empowers business users with multiple methods for rule development, authoring and testingincluding decision trees, scorecards, decision tables, graphical decision flows and customized templates. It also supports monitoring of business performance captured through user-defined events, providing the building blocks for strategy orchestration and champion/challenger strategies.

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FICO Blaze Advisor is the #2 ranked solution in top Business Rules Management solutions. PeerSpot users give FICO Blaze Advisor an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. FICO Blaze Advisor is most commonly compared to Pega Platform: FICO Blaze Advisor vs Pega Platform. FICO Blaze Advisor is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 68% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 27% of all views.

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PIOTR SHUBIANOK

Chief Executive Officer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

FICO needs to provide a better user experience and user interface. Unfortunately, our clients are not able to add customization by themselves. So this limits their ability to use the solution. FICO Blaze is a complex technology, so it's more about engineering work. This means that we need to hire developers who will learn FICO Blaze as technology and use it. Without development knowledge, it is impossible to use the solution. Our clients do not always have a budget to hire huge salaried engineers, and they want to be able to tune small changes by themselves, but unfortunately, they can't because again, Blaze is really a complex technology. Currently, the solution's interface allows for really simple changes to be made by our clients. I would like to have an easier user-friendly interface to allow for more changes to be made by the client without the need for an engineer. This is not true for all companies. We are talking about some real strategies when we have a lot of decision tables, rules, and decision graphs. Because it's really hard for our business users/customers to make low-level customizations by themselves. The main reason why we switched to other solutions is that we don't see the possibility with FICO Blaze Advisor and vector of FICA company that they think to improve this because they created the decision model. This is an extension of FICO Blaze with some new modern UI items, but it's still not working 100 percent. Unfortunately, we see that it's a huge gap nowadays with this old technology that's why we continue to search for new software which we'll use.

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Rajkumar Kumbhar

Application Architect at Cognizant

In terms of what could be improved, I think the developer's tools on their optimized version should be a little bit more user friendly. Additionally, it really doesn't pick up the actual exception or error of what the developers are getting. It gives a different level of exceptions and then somebody has to use their experience to dig down and get into the actual error of what is happening there. I haven't really used the cloud version. We are planning to use it, but definitely, it should be more competitive compared to the other decision rules. For example, if we look at the IBM Audience, it has been way ahead of Blaze Advisor. Even though they started late, the way they designed the tool is commendable. With Blaze, a new person can get lost because there is no predefined specific path of development or execution and there are other tools. They have given a very nice execution path or development path - how things need to be developed. They have basically given the test first and there should be some object model that needs to be in place. Then there should be a decision flow. Then there should be artifacts that are happening. They go step by step. When the first step is completed, they should show the second step, etc. That way, somebody can easily follow that part and develop any new application. I think this is missing in Fico Blaze. Another thing that could be improved is the direct database connectivity with the relational database. Many times there are certain details we need from the relational database or any third-party tool, and that kind of connection or connectivity from the actual FICO Blaze is missing. If they could make some way to get the information from the third-party tool, that would be more helpful. If they did that, FICO would boom up like anything.

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Roberto Ionita

Business Rules Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The deployment process was pretty complex because I'd never been involved on the technical side. It was just a matter of inexperience and I learned a lot along the way. For anyone working in the IT domain as a tester or programmer, I think the process would be much easier. We had help from the vendor because they know the solution inside out. I don't think you can use it without someone from FICO to assist, at least in the first year or so, it's quite a complex solution. We had three people involved in the technical aspect of the implementation, and we also had business people dealing with individual countries, so probably around 10 people altogether. The initial setup took about two months. We have around 15 users in the company.

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FICO Blaze Advisor mindshare

As of December 2024, the mindshare of FICO Blaze Advisor in the Business Rules Management category stands at 45.6%, up from 40.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Type	Title	Date
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Dec 31, 2024	Download
Comparison	FICO Blaze Advisor vs Pega Platform	Dec 31, 2024	Download
Comparison	FICO Blaze Advisor vs IBM Operational Decision Manager	Dec 31, 2024	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Pega Platform	4.1	N/A	91%	82 interviews Add to research
IBM Operational Decision Manager	4.3	46.2%	100%	15 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The solution is very stable."
"FICO Blaze Advisor's most valuable features are the analytics, the code change is not required, and even a business analyst can do that change in the rules when we set it up."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it has a fast engine for decisioning."

Room for Improvement

"FICO needs to provide a better user experience and user interface."
"The initial setup of FICO Blaze Advisor was somewhat complex. The implementation took approximately three to four months. However, I left halfway through the process, I am not sure of the exact timeframe."
"FICO Blaze Advisor is still missing things for maintaining the version of something. For example, we have gates for programming, for storing, or scripts. In there, one developer can prepare a file or a piece of code or something, and another developer can work on the same code or on the same text file or something, and you can manage it. This is missing in FICO Blaze Advisor."

Pricing

"As a starting price, it is around $40,000 for a perpetual license."
"There was an annual license required to use FICO Blaze Advisor. There were not any additional features."
"The biggest disadvantage of Blaze Advisor is the initial cost... The price could be reduced to increase profit margins and the number of clients."

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