What is FICO® Platform

The FICO^® Platform provides secure, managed access to an extensible set of components, services, and execution environments that support FICO's products and application for automating business decisions.

It is available as an on-premises installation to be managed and administered by your corporate IT department. Alternatively, it is also available through the FICO Analytic Cloud, a hosted and managed environment. Xpress Insight is only available for the FICO Platform hosted on the FICO Analytic Cloud.

Platform Structure

Solutions provide a logical grouping for the Components available to your company and are used to organize the Components that can be assigned to users. The diagram below illustrates the relationship of the different elements.

Note: The FICO Analytic Cloud is shown as a broken line on the diagram to represent its position in the platform structure. On-premises installations should disregard this element.

A Solution can contain one or many Components and may accommodate multiple individual instances of a Component. Platform Components provide capabilities that can be added to your Solutions. Xpress Insight is available as a Component in an enterprise Solution intended for multiple users within a given organization. The diagram below shows how an on-premises installation could structure the Solutions with two Xpress Insight Components to service two departments within an organization.

Each Component provides specific functionality and capabilities that can be configured to interact with other Components that have been added to your Solutions. Some Components expose one or more web services that can be called from a batch job or from an external application. Xpress Insight apps are frequently authored fulfil a specific requirement of your organization.

Note: For more information about authoring Xpress Insight apps, see the Insight 5 Developers Guide for Mosel and the Insight 5 Developers Guide for Python .

Solution and Component Administration

The Solution Administrator configures, deploys, and manages solutions and any components added to them. This role also manages which users can access a solution. In addition to administering access to the Insight component, the Solution Administrator also configures Execution Services. For more information, see Administering Execution Workers and Services.

Additionally, each individual component can be assigned an Administrator who manages which permissions a user has when they are using the component. These tasks are covered in the Insight 5 Administrator Guide .

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