Case Study: FICO achieves faster innovation and operational efficiency with Microsoft Azure and Office 365

Technology that is raising FICO’s innovation score

FICO, a six-decade leader in analytics and the creator of the FICO credit score, faced increasing operational strain from on‑premises and third‑party servers—managing maintenance, backups and more than 300 annual audits—while trying to stay competitive in big‑data innovation and maintain strict security and compliance standards.

By moving core systems to Microsoft Azure and Office 365 (including Exchange Online and Skype for Business), FICO reduced infrastructure overhead and sped provisioning, gaining scalable storage, built‑in security and compliance, and improved collaboration. The shift let engineers focus on revenue‑generating applications and legal eDiscovery work, helped attract top talent, and delivered measurable gains in productivity and operational efficiency as FICO advances its cloud‑first strategy.

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Matt Dixon

Vice President of Information Technology