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# Introduction

Welcome to the FICO® Xpress Insight Python Developer Help.

Xpress Insight enables you to build and deploy solutions that enhance Python optimization models.

A complete Xpress Insight solution allows business users and domain experts to collaborate on, explore and adjust analytics models without having to be experts in software development.

Developing an app for Insight requires some foreknowledge of programming, languages including Python®, and JavaScript, and the edit-compile-run development paradigm.

"Python" is a registered trademark of the Python Software Foundation.

Covered Topics

- Audience
  To get the most from this guide, you will need to be familiar with the programming and markup languages detailed below, and have some knowledge of the interaction model that underlies the Xpress Insight web client itself. Further information is available in the following section.
- Further Developer Resources
  In addition to this guide, there are several other sources of implementation and reference information.
- Concepts and Components
  The Xpress Insight system incorporates several physical components, logical concepts and data artifacts.
- A Word About Terminology
  Prior to Xpress Insight 4.7, what are now called apps were known as projects.
- Related FICO Products
  Xpress Insight is part of FICO® Platform, and is designed to coexist and interoperate with a range of other applications.

Parent Topic Insight 5 Python Developer Guide

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