MINNEAPOLIS, MN, March 28, 2005 -- Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC), the leading provider of analytics and decision technology, has been recognized by CMP LLC Intelligent Enterprise magazine as one the 12 most influential technology companies of 2005. Fair Isaac was acknowledged as the leader within the Vanguard category, which recognizes companies that are helping businesses push the envelope in leveraging information for greater agility and smarter business processes.

The Intelligent Enterprise Editors' Choice Awards recognize companies providing the strongest vision, market leadership and technology innovation to its readers in their quest to align IT with business objectives.

"Over the last several years, Fair Isaac has achieved increasing recognition for helping companies gain precision and agility across their enterprise applications," said David Stodder, editor in chief of Intelligent Enterprise. "With innovative software offerings, Fair Isaac brings together predictive analytics and business rules engines, two technology areas with exceptional potential to advance and improve business intelligence, performance management and intelligent process execution."

"Intelligent Enterprise's recognition of Fair Isaac as one of the top 12 most influential providers is a testament to the increasing influence of -- and demand for -- Enterprise Decision Management technologies," said Tom Grudnowski, CEO at Fair Isaac. "It also underscores the well-established effectiveness and scalability of Fair Isaac's rules management technologies, and the measurable business benefits they deliver."

Fair Isaac Enterprise Decision Management software provides any business that makes large numbers of dynamic, high-impact operational decisions with more complete capabilities for accelerating the development and deployment of decision management applications. It is designed to meet the most demanding individual workgroup applications, as well as serve the needs of large-scale national and multinational companies, who rely upon a variety of technology platforms and legacy systems using multiple programming languages.

Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor gives business users and analysts a powerful tool to update business strategies and ensure governance across critical enterprise information systems, using straightforward business terms. The control of the business logic embedded in IT systems allows business users to maintain application behavior without IT assistance, using intuitive rules maintenance applications. This increases business agility, allowing rules to be modified quickly and easily, and requiring IT to simply link and test the final applications. Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor is the first leading rules engine to support Java, .NET and COBOL deployment of the same rules. The multi-platform solution supports Web Services, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platforms, Microsoft .NET and Component Object Model (COM), and COBOL for IBM mainframes.

For complete details on Intelligent Enterprise's 2005 Editor Choice Awards please visit: http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=60404503&pgno=8#thevanguard (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

Published monthly, Intelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to helping organizations plan and deploy strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. Intelligent Enterprise empowers 80,000 Business Application Strategists charged with unlocking the value of strategic information, setting, managing and running their enterprise business processes to provide collaborative information delivery that drives strategic decision-making. Access free subscriptions from the Web site at www.IntelligentEnterprise.com.

About Fair Isaac

Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC) is the preeminent provider of creative analytics that unlock value for people, businesses and industries. The company's predictive modeling, decision analysis, intelligence management, decision management systems and consulting services power billions of mission-critical customer decisions a year. Founded in 1956, Fair Isaac helps thousands of companies in over 60 countries acquire customers more efficiently, increase customer value, reduce fraud and credit losses, lower operating expenses and enter new markets more profitably. Most leading banks and credit card issuers rely on Fair Isaac solutions, as do insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers, healthcare organizations, and government agencies. Through the www.myfico.com Web site, consumers use the company's FICO(R) scores, the standard measure of credit risk, to manage their financial health. For more information, visit www.fairisaac.com.

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Angela Carlson, 415-492-5373 (Media)
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