FICO Offers Social and Mobile Services in New FICO Analytic Cloud

FICO, a provider of predictive analytics and decision management software, is now offering its FICO Adeptra Mobile Services Platform as a service in the new FICO Analytic Cloud, for creating, customizing, and deploying analytic-driven applications and services. The FICO Adeptra Mobile Services Platform enables app developers, business users, and FICO partners to take advantage of the explosion in social media and mobile communication to address a broad range of challenges.

Using services built on the FICO Adeptra Mobile Services Platform, businesses can communicate with customers in real time, using voice, SMS, mobile apps, email, and social media channels such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

"We've all grown to expect instant communications in whatever channel we, personally, prefer the most," said Tony McGivern, chief information officer at FICO, in a statement. "This raises new questions for businesses about how to ensure customer engagement and loyalty. Now, with the FICO Analytic Cloud, businesses of all sizes and in every part of the world can create mobile services that drive every customer decision and action to resolution through the right channel, at the optimal moment, for the greatest impact."

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