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I think that it's
an important point.
I think it goes to
the point that for
over 50 years our customers
have relied on FICO
to deliver industry leading analytic
and decision management solutions.
None of that changes with
the FICO analytic cloud.
I think the democratization of
analytics allows us to build
decision management analytic solutions for
people that previously did not have access.
I think what we're creating and what we've created is truly unique.
FICO, so it's over 50 years old,
originally started with Mr. Fair and
Mr. Isaac who were originally asked
to develop a scoring algorithm for
store cards.
What that resulted in was fundamentally
an analytics algorithm company.
Everything we do is built around
sort of analytic solutions in decision management.
I think what you're seeing now
with the establishment of the FICO
analytic cloud is, in some ways, the instantiation of
the vision of the organization to
bring analytics to the masses.
Well, I think Red Hat support is up
and down the stack in that mission.
The center proposition of
the FICO Analytic Cloud is what we
call our Decision Management Platform and
we've built that Decision
Management Platform on top of
Red Hat's OpenShift
enterprise product.
So the relationship we have with
those guys that support OpenShift
as a public offer and the guys that
support OpenShift as a product
today is more than I could
have ever asked for.
The future of the industry
is obviously the cloud,
or if you like, cloud
delivered services.
We believe that Ope nStack is, you know,  the future of elastic infrastructure
and we were fairly committed to
that as being the basis for
the next generation of
the FICO analytic cloud.
But not only were we using OpenStack
and OpenShift as, if you like,  the underlying
engines but we were rebuilding all of our
internal Platform as a Service offers
around those two particular
products as well.
This is really just the beginning.
I think it's going to be a hybrid model.
I think we'll see the dissolving of
the boundaries between private and
public clouds.
I think our relationship with
Red Hat, not to overstate it,
is a huge example of what we
consider value in a vendor.
It's more than a partnership.
It is a shared goal, shared vision,
shared outcome type relationship.
I think that's the fundamental definition for me
—at my level— of trust
But if you actually have real trust,
then you have real partnership.
