Workforce Optimization's Fraud Company Completes Key Testing Criteria in Fraud Prevention Benchmark

As a company of workforce optimization provider NICE Systems (News - Alert), Actimize, a provider of a single financial crime, risk and compliance software platform for the financial services industry, has created quite a name for itself in the securities industry.

To that effect, Actimize has announced the results of a third-party platform scalability and availability benchmark conducted at the IBM (News - Alert) Products and Solutions Support Center, or "PSSC," in Montpellier, France on behalf of a top global bank.

The Actimize Fraud Prevention platform proved to have linear scalability and failover capabilities with an average response time of 10ms with an IBM Power Systems server connected to IBM TotalStorage DS8300.

"As our solutions are typically mission-critical for our clients, they have to be built on top of a highly flexible, scalable and reliable technology platform," said Boaz Peer, chief technology officer at Actimize.

Peer added that it is satisfying to see that, whether tested in the lab or deployed at client site, the company's financial crime platform outperforming expectations.

Company officials said that Actimize system exceeded expectations. The benchmark parameters and results included 500TPS achieved over two active sites against a benchmark requirement of two sites located 1500 miles apart.

Additionally, it also included 10ms average response time against a benchmark requirement of a maximum response time - 500ms. Company officials said that the tests demonstrated linear scalability supporting performance above 500TPS; low utilization of hardware - load balanced between two active sites - 50 percent on each; 10mn recovery time after complete failure of production site; 5mn recovery time after database replication failure between two sites.

The IBM PSSC team has years of experience producing objective industry benchmarks. It partners with clients to meet their IT infrastructure and business goals. Company officials said that the IBM PSSC was able to fulfill the testing criteria for the client efficiently.

Company officials said that it provided detailed results that were used by the financial institution to select Actimize as its enterprise fraud prevention solution provider. The benchmark was requested by a prominent global financial institution to test Actimize's financial crime platform and solution performance against a variety of key metrics.

The client's key objectives were to test and validate response time performance, hardware scalability, high-availability and failover and recovery capabilities.