👋 Say hello to the Nextmv FICO Xpress Integration! We’ve partnered with FICO to make FICO Xpress available on Nextmv’s DecisionOps platform to accelerate optimization teams with their decision model development, deployment, testing, monitoring, and collaboration.
FICO Xpress Solver provides a comprehensive set of industry-leading commercial optimization solutions to help decision scientists tackle complex challenges across many industries: from finance to energy, healthcare, transportation, retail, and beyond. Together with Nextmv, it’s even easier to get started and grow with FICO Xpress in order to amplify model impact on business metrics such as revenue, sustainability goals, and customer satisfaction.
Keep reading to see how you can put the integration into action and get all the details!
Nextmv DecisionOps + FICO Xpress = Faster time to value
The Nextmv platform provides DecisionOps tooling that transforms the experience of building, deploying, testing, and collaborating on FICO Xpress models. Whether you prefer AMPL, Pyomo, or the native Xpress modeling packages, it’s easier than ever before to bring a FICO Xpress model to Nextmv and start leveraging DecisionOps capabilities to improve model performance and the impact to downstream business outcomes. Let’s look at a few key benefits.
Easily collaborate on optimization projects and share results
Nextmv is built for collaboration. As FICO Xpress is used across many large teams and organizations, Nextmv + FICO Xpress unlocks new levels of transparency and accessibility into model results and performance. With role-based collaboration features, it’s easy to invite new people to Nextmv: software engineers looking to view model runs or integrate with a common API layer, modelers looking to expand to new optimization use cases or iterate on existing model development, business stakeholders and product managers interested in test results and outcomes.
This level of FICO Xpress model collaboration in Nextmv saves the back-and-forth time traditionally required to piece together data files, snap and share screenshots over email or chat, and meet in person for in-system reviews and or troubleshooting sessions. The Nexmv platform includes pre-built visualization along with options to bring your own visualization such as Plotly, Chart.js, and GeoJSON.
Streamline model performance validation and testing
Minimize the setup, management, and wrangling required to maintain robust and repeatable testing capabilities for FICO Xpress models with Nextmv’s experimentation suite. Run scenario tests to simulate “what if” questions or acceptance tests for threshold analysis as part of CI/CD checks. Or derisk live rollouts with online experiments such as shadow tests and switchback (A/B) tests to determine model performance in production environments.
Additionally, Nextmv makes it easy to manage and reference model inputs. Readily access and download the input or output associated with a model run with the click of a button. Or create shared input sets for systematic testing across decision science teams.
With Nextmv’s testing framework, it’s easier than ever to validate and explore model performance to gain confidence in your FICO Xpress model’s performance.
Build observable decision workflows that automate multi-step processes
Optimization is inherently part of larger business workflows with upstream and downstream events: data ingestion, feature engineering, embedding machine learning algorithms, and visualization. Nextmv provides the DecisionOps tooling to readily create decision workflows with FICO Xpress models.
This decision workflow experience in Nextmv is built with optimization models in mind, while being flexible to connect into existing MLOps flows (that traditionally fall short of what’s really needed for managing optimization models).
Standardize working with FICO Xpress decision models at scale
Readily manage FICO Xpress model versions via Nextmv and its common API layer, partition data by region or development environment, and hook into CI/CD workflows to ship higher quality model code faster and with more confidence.
These DecisionOps tools provide a more efficient and more modern approach for integrating and managing FICO Xpress models within larger technology stacks.
How to get started with Nextmv + FICO Xpress
Getting started with Nextmv is as easy as creating a free account. From there, you can work with customizable template models available via the Marketplace or bring your own custom model code to Nextmv via notebook, Python SDK, or CLI. Send us a message if you’re interested in exploring FICO Xpress on Nextmv to activate a trial.
We’re excited to make this new integration available to the FICO Xpress community and work with FICO Xpress to provide amazing modern DecisionOps experiences for better decision workflows! May your solutions be ever improving 🖖
