Edcon Goes Live with TRIAD 8

Released on = June 18, 2007, 10:20 pm

Press Release Author = PIC Solutions

Industry = Financial

Press Release Summary = Cape Town, 19 June 2007 - Edcon, Africa's largest fashion
retail group has gone live with the latest version of TRIADTM adaptive control
system.

Press Release Body = TRIAD from Fair Isaac Corporation is the premier adaptive
control system for lenders that combines software, actionable analytics and
optimisation techniques to effectively manage 44 billion account and customer
management decisions globally each year. TRIAD 8 is the first portfolio management
solution to combine industry-standard account and customer strategy management
capabilities onto a single platform. This cutting-edge system provides significant
innovations that increase user control, precision and speed to lenders\' account and
customer management strategies.

PIC Solutions strategy consultants worked closely with Edcon to ensure an upgrade to
TRIAD 8. Through TRIAD 8, Edcon now responds rapidly to customer changes and can
update and maintain their corporate strategies and policies. In addition, the system
will lead to enhanced individual account level treatment in strategic decision areas
and increase Edcon's overall portfolio profitability.

Ian Wood, Group Financial Services Executive at Edcon, states, "PIC Solutions
strategy consultants worked closely with us to ensure that this TRIAD upgrade was
implemented. TRIAD 8 has significantly added to our account management capabilities
by providing additional, easily deployable testing capabilities for existing
accounts. This functionality provides us with a sound foundation from which to
launch strategies at either an account or customer level. In an ever increasing
competitive market, it is extremely important to be at the forefront of technology
in order to adapt our lending strategies with minimal lead times and TRIAD 8
provides us with this capability."

Stephen Leonard, Managing Director of PIC Solutions, comments, "We are committed to
providing leading-edge solutions that add value to our clients' businesses on both
the operational and strategic front. TRIAD 8 optimises this by providing client
flexible software with the ability to deploy strategies, whether at an account or
customer level. This best-of-breed technology is used by more than 80% of credit
card issuers in the US and UK and we were pleased to work with Edcon on this
assignment and ensure that TRIAD 8 effectively supports their business decisions on
all levels. "

About Fair Isaac
Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC) combines trusted advice, world-class analytics and
innovative applications to help businesses make smarter decisions. Fair Isaac's
solutions and technologies for Enterprise Decision Management turn strategy into
action and elevate business performance by giving organizations the power to
automate more decisions, improve the quality of their decisions, and connect
decisions across their business. Clients in 80 countries work with Fair Isaac to
increase customer loyalty and profitability, cut fraud losses, manage credit risk,
meet regulatory and competitive demands, and rapidly build market share. Learn more
about Fair Isaac at www.fairisaac.com.

About PIC Solutions
PIC Solutions provides consumer credit solutions to a wide range of blue-chip
organisations. We are experts in the fields of credit, risk and software and have an
established track record of success powered by solutions.

PIC Solutions is the Fair Isaac alliance partner for the Africa Middle East region
and from offices in Cape Town, Dubai and Johannesburg, provides all sales and
support for the entire suite of Fair Isaac products and services. This includes
consulting, project management, integration services, first line software support
and ongoing maintenance.

Our ongoing commitment is to enable clients to optimise the credit life cycle.

Editorial Contact:
Sarka Svoboda
Marketing Manager
Tel: +27 (0)21 680-6010
Fax: +27 (0)21 680-6003
Email: SSvoboda@PICSolutions.com
Web: www.PICSolutions.com

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Contact Details = PIC Solutions
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