Proactive Risk Manager™ Recognized for Real-Time Pattern
Recognition Abilities, Customizable Alerts, and Reporting
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
(New York, N.Y. - March 21, 2012) - ACI Worldwide (Nasdaq:
ACIW), a leading international provider of payment systems,
today announced it has been ranked in the "Leader" category
for financial crimes management by leading industry analyst
firm IDC Financial Insights in the recent IDC MarketScape
report, Financial Crimes Management 2012 Vendor Assessment.
ACI's ranking is based on its flagship fraud detection
product, Proactive Risk Manager. IDC Financial Insights
stated, "Proactive Risk Manager's greatest strength is
its integration with ACI's other payment products,
particularly its BASE24-eps card processing system and its
MTS wire and ACH systems. This integration enables
Proactive Risk Manager to operate almost entirely in real
time. Real-time alerting and decisioning continues to be a
primary selling point, reflecting the product's roots
in the card market."
Shesh Gorur, vice president & product line manager, ACI
Worldwide, said, "We are delighted to be recognized as a
Leader by IDC in this report. Our goal is to provide a
product that is both flexible and powerful, supporting our
customers' current needs while allowing them to react to
the evolving world of payments fraud."
As defined by the report, financial crime management
includes the IT solutions that anticipate, detect, analyze,
and prevent fraudulent transactions, money laundering, and
employee financial misconduct through the use of one or
more of the following: decision trees, neural networks,
predictive scoring models, network link analysis, scenario
matching, data mining, case management, and entity and
device profiling.
Proactive Risk Manager is a comprehensive enterprise fraud
detection solution to help card issuers, merchants,
acquirers and financial institutions combat financial
crime. By monitoring account activity across all lines of
business, Proactive Risk Manager enables users to see more
fraudulent activity in a shorter amount of time, minimizing
losses and helping to preserve the customer relationship.
Proactive Risk Manager combines the power of predictive
analytics and expertly defined rules for fast, accurate and
flexible response to the evolving and growing nature of
fraud and money laundering.
For more information on Proactive Risk Manager please visit
www.aciworldwide.com/proactiveriskmanager.
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to
provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT
(information and communications technology) suppliers in a
given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous
scoring methodology based on both qualitative and
quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical
illustration of each vendor's position within a given
market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which
the product and service offerings, capabilities and
strategies, and current and future market success factors
of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully
compared. The framework also provides technology buyers
with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and
weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
About ACI Worldwide
ACI Worldwide powers electronic payments and banking for
nearly 1700 financial institutions, retailers and
processors around the world. Through our integrated suite
of software products and hosted services, we deliver a
broad range of solutions for electronic payments,
transaction banking, mobile, branch, and voice banking,
fraud detection and trade finance.www.aciworldwide.com.
You can also find us on www.paymentsinsights.com
or on Twitter @ACI_Worldwide.
Contact details
Shirley Macbeth
ACI Worldwide
781-370-3600
press@aciworldwide.com
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