FAIR ISAAC CORP
Fair Isaac Corporation, also known as FICO, is a leading applied analytics company founded in 1956. The company specializes in solutions that help businesses operationalize analytics to uncover new opportunities, make timely decisions, and execute them at scale. FICO's business strategy focuses on predictive modeling, decision analysis and optimization, transaction profiling, and customer data integration. The company operates in two segments: Scores and Software. The Scores segment includes business-to-business (B2B) scoring solutions and services, primarily the FICO Score, which is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the U.S. FICO Scores are distributed through major consumer reporting agencies and are used in most U.S. credit decisions. The company also offers various custom scores for financial services clients and scores for consumers through its myFICO.com subscription offerings. The Software segment includes pre-configured analytic and decision management solutions designed for specific business needs or processes, such as account origination, customer management, fraud detection, and marketing. FICO Platform, a modular software offering, is used to support advanced analytic and decision use cases. The company sells its software primarily as analytic and decisioning software or pre-configured solutions. FICO's software offerings are used in various industries, including banking, insurance, retail, healthcare, and public agencies. The company's largest market segment is financial services, representing 91% of its total revenue, and its largest geographic market is the Americas, representing 85% of its total revenue. The competition in the market includes both outside suppliers and in-house analytics, as well as various software companies and professional services organizations. FICO protects its proprietary rights through a combination of patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret laws and confidentiality agreements. The company's website is www.fico.com, and its ticker symbol is FICO on the New York Stock Exchange.