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Pros and Cons
  • "Nice's most valuable feature would be its rule engine."
  • "One of the problems that our clients generally talk about is the price of the product when they have to purchase the product and the licenses for it. Those are on the higher side."

What is our primary use case?

Right now, we are using Nice Actimize for our financial transactions. I have worked on multiple solutions to enrich the latest one that I'm working on. We have our payment systems and our normal transaction monitoring systems, detecting fraud cases. Based on that, they create alerts. Those alerts are ingested into Actimize. We have our case management system in which our analysts are shown the alerts with the respective data and with all the related alert details of the customers, and based on that they will be able to decide whether it is a potential fraud transaction or it is a false positive case.

Then the analyst will decide based on the rules whether it's a fraud happening or it's a valid transaction. This is what we are doing right now. But prior to that, we also used Nice Actimize for the case management system in which you have the rules, the responsibilities, and the users. Meaning, if I'm an analyst, I will have certain access rights so I can see something. If I have a manager on top of me, he can see something more on the same alert. He can see something else. If he's a manager on a group level, maybe for America, he can see alerts from North America as well as South America. We have these units and based on that, the rules are defined and you will have a UI that will display anything for you. There was an HR case where there was an incident raised against an employee. A manual case is created which will go through all the flows for check and go to the employee. Then the HR and the employee will have a discussion. All the details will be stored in that entity that is the alert. Then based on that, there will be other steps.

If it is a case in which there is sexual harassment or something, even if the police are involved, it will be stored. The details on the outcomes will be stored there, and then they will choose what to do with that case. Whether they want to do a formal complaint against that employee, or they want to terminate him, or is it a false case that was registered against him or something like that. This is one application besides the transactions. Actimize can be used in all these ways, but mostly the purpose of Actimize was anti-money laundering and suspicious activity, on the transaction and financial side of things.

They have certain rules. For example, if I am using a credit card and my usual behavior for normal transactions is 100 Pounds to 500 Pounds in a week, but suddenly I make a transaction of more than 5,000 Pounds. It is possibly a suspicious activity indicating that somebody is trying to do something. Now somebody needs to decide whether this is actually suspicious. If I consider my case, there was an instance when I did a big transaction and I got a phone call from my credit card saying that "Is that you who did this transaction?" So somewhere, they might also be using a similar kind of product and it helps the customers in preventing fraud from happening. This is an application of Nice.

The application itself is deployed on a server and it can be used throughout sites. So for us, it could be banks. Banks have their sites, the transactions come in, and that is just one place where it is installed and users can access it through the net. Now the latest thing that has come in, is that they also have cloud implementation. Everything will be there in the cloud. So any maintenance or upgrades will be done in one place. The clients who are using this application will not bear the costs separately. So any more data will be directly provided to them. Even the cloud interfaces are available now.

My company has a relationship with NICE Actimize as well as the client. NICE Actimize is the solution provider, the implementer, for our company, a bank. We have a business relationship with the bank as well as with NICE Actimize. NICE Actimize does not have a huge level of implementation so they do not deal directly with the banks. It is either us or the other vendors or service providers who actually implement and interact with actual users. They depend on us for any new upgrades or what the client wants. It is also beneficial since the companies are pricing for each thing. So maybe our company would get something at a cheaper rate because we are providing them with insights into what the customer actually wants and what their needs will be in the future.

How has it helped my organization?

With the number of transactions that are happening, everyone has a card and all of us do some transactions, so the volume of transactions and suspicious transactions is huge. In order to go through all the transactions, you need to have a lot of analysts and a lot of manpower, and the time to decide whether it is a fraud or not a fraud is huge. By using this product, Actimize, you are able to reduce the number of analysts working on it and have all the data for the transaction, the customers, and other things involved, embedded on a single screen. 

One of the criteria which determines a fraud is the country of origin of the transaction. There are red countries or blacklist countries, and certain things like that. For example, Afghanistan would be a country wherein if a person makes a transaction of more than 10,000 USD, it is considered that it could be a potential terrorist funding or some related activity. These kinds of things you can come to know. For example, there was a feature showing where the transaction was made or the card was swiped. You would also get that on a map - there will be a small link there. If an analyst wants to see where the actual transaction was done, he can also get that information right on that particular page. So all the details are in one place which makes it easier for an analyst to decide whether it is fraud or not.

What is most valuable?

Nice Actimize's most valuable feature would be its rule engine. The core of the application is that when transactions come in, there will be a set of business users, for example, a bank, who decides what constitutes fraud. Once they decide the criteria, all the transactions check against these filters on a real-time basis. If they find something suspicious, an alert will be created and the normal life cycle of the alert is opened and then goes to the analysis and all those steps will start. 

Apart from that feature, one more thing that is good about this product is that it is not specific to a particular database. If you have an Excel sheet, you can always import that and create alerts from that. You can always connect the to Hadoop system. They have given those open-ended entities where you can click on them. It's like a plugin. You just create a small plugin and it will be able to search for data from any of the sources that are available. It is easy to use. The UI is pretty good, so it helps the analyst. Lastly, robotics have come in. When there are a lot of alerts being generated, most of them follow certain patterns. So if we write a rule that these kinds of alerts should be directly closed or something like that, then even that can be done. Machine learning has now entered into the product. I haven't used it, but I know it is there now. People are using it.

What needs improvement?

In terms of what could be improved, one of the problems that our clients generally talk about is the price of the product when they have to purchase the product and the licenses for it. Those are on the higher side, in which case they would go ahead developing the built-in solution. Otherwise, the product is good compared to Actimize's competitors' products.

They have provided a feature wherein you can develop your own goals and targets along with it. There are some applications that will restrict you from doing something. But this application always provides you a plugin. You develop a plugin, you configure something and you can add any data. You can introduce any source. You can write to any file. You can then read reports, whether it is a PDF or something, or you can directly interact with a third party, such as a government organization wherein there is a feature like RFI, a request for information.

For example, let's consider there is a federal investigation going on and they need to have a response from a federal team. They will send out the RFI request. Once the federal team responds back on that, the response will automatically trigger an action once it is received. There are a lot of automated things and they haven't restricted anything. Even if there is a little drawback or a shortcoming, you can always create a Java code to use and just patch something in there. So in that sense, I would say that it is an open-ended product, it's not a closed environment.

I haven't had the chance to work on robotics, so I can not comment on that part. But it looks like that is something that they have developed recently. The other issue is that if you want to learn about the application itself, the training is not available as an open-source. It is restricted and you have to pay for it and get a formal certification, and only then you would be able to implement something with that. Even if you try to Google it, you won't be able to find the actual code or how to configure it and all that information.

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For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Nice Actimize for around four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Nice Actimize is a stable product. The product, is interacting with multiple systems. We had a screen wherein we were connecting to the Hadoop environment because the number of transactions was very huge. So we could not have it in our Oracle at the same time. They were present in Hadoop and the user would connect. There was a dashboard kind of a thing in which there were internal queries to fetch data from Hadoop and display to the users.

But sometimes, due to connectivity between all the environments and the Hadoop environment itself, we would face difficulties. Basically, it is the environment that may bring down the performance. But if the environment is proper and I know the volume that I am going to handle, I don't think this application goes down.

There are updates available for Actimize. If there is an upgrade, you have to purchase a license for it depending on the agreement that you have with Actimize. If you have an agreement wherein there would be a fee for the upgrade, they will give a patch and you just run it once. There will be a fee that will be there with the patch, and they will just give us the steps that we need to do, and they will just be helping us out.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

In terms of scalability, around 100 or 200 users is a normal thing for Actimize. If there are thousands of users that are going to be added, then obviously there needs to be some abbreviation done on the available resources. For example, the environment is a smaller environment, which can handle only a certain number of requests. If that is the case, then obviously Actimize won't be able to support all those.

When I say, "Won't be able to support" they would internally add load balancers and all those things would be implemented. If the docket is not able to handle a request, you will see a lag in the opening of a page or a request. But it is seldom that the application is unavailable as a whole. So the worst case would be if there is a slowness in the application. Sometimes we need to do a restart or something in the lower environments, but we do not see that in production. Because in production, all the environments are kept up to date and there are other processes checking the number of alerts and everything. So there are diagnostic functions going on. So any spike anywhere would be easily detected and a proper notification would be sent to the user.

I am speaking as a developer who would be developing stuff in Actimize. There will be other people who would be the final users of Actimize. There are approximately 200 developers throughout my organization who are developing stuff for different vendors. In terms of the users that are actually using it, it could really be in the thousands because there are big banks and financial institutions which use this product and they have their own users. So some of them would be analysts, most of them would-be managers. And based on that, they function. I could just give an approximate figure here.

This product is being used in multiple payment gateways. So even in the investment banking sector, you have Actimize being used. Basically, wherever payments and transactions are concerned, this application is used, including big banks, and the volume at which they are utilizing it would be quite huge. Because this application isn't cheap, it is quite expensive, they will only put in that kind of money if the volumes are huge. So instead of spending on people, they are spending on a product, which makes life easier because fewer people can manage it.

How are customer service and support?

We had one instance where we had to call NICE Actimize. There was an existing issue with their product which they were working on. At that time, they said that this would be coming in the next release. One of the features or one of the PDFs were not working. It was not a showstopper, but it was a small issue in which we had a call with them. We told them we're facing an issue and about everything we had tried, and technically they were able to help us. They also asked us to try multiple things. After that, once it was still not working, then they said that, "Let us come out with a permanent fix that we should do for the next release, and you will get a free upgrade." I would rate the technical support an eight out of 10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Initially, we used normal Java programs in which we had to develop everything from scratch. But using Nice Actimize gave us the freedom to just configure and use it. The focus is mainly not on developing, but on implementation when we use this product. Prior to this, we did not work on any tools or assets.

Unfortunately, I do not have any experience working on similar solutions. Like I mentioned, there are two other solutions that do provide a similar thing. One is Mantas and the other one is Morale. For our current client, these two systems are used to detect fraud transactions, but Actimize is used to display and for the case management. The case management part in Actimize is better than the competitive solutions.

As I mentioned earlier, this product is open-ended so you can never say "it is not possible" in Actimize. Maybe they don't give it as a solution, but you can always develop that on your end and plug it in, whereas this is not possible with other solutions. This is what I have heard. We were picking solutions for a prospective client who was interested in going into this area, and we had to give a description of all the solutions available for them to decide which one to go for. I was a part of Actimize, so I just heard the other parts as well. This was what I read.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is a running of files. There are the shell scripts and everything runs with a normal installation. There will be a team from Actimize itself. They will help us out installing the product and if there are problems, they would give the support. Once the installation is done or there are upgrades, you just click execute this file and it will do the rest all by itself.

It's pretty straightforward.

The deployment and installation of the product would take around a week. A week in the sense that it will be around a couple of days, and then there will be certain checks done, whether everything is working fine or not. Once the environment is ready there can be different solutions that you can deploy or create.

Once the Actimize environment is there you can create your own. Whether you want to do a case monitoring on a transaction, or you want to do something related to HR or any other thing that is configured. That is something that you develop. Basically, it is like your Java. So you have the Java environment installed, then you can do anything on that.

Installation of Java would take a maximum of an hour or so. Setting up your parts and everything. Similarly for this, it will have to take day or two for the Actimize team to analyze whether everything has been set up properly. They will probably give a week of time wherein they would say that the environment is ready for you to use. In case of any issues, like the environment is going down or there are some upgrade that was not present, they will be responsible.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I'm actually not sure about this as this would be done on a client-to-company basis. Most probably it is on a yearly basis or a bi-yearly basis. Or it could also be greater than that because if a big bank is going to put money into some solution, they won't be doing it for a shorter period. They would like to carry it on for a longer period. I do not have an exact idea of this.

What Actimize has done with the standard license is to give the amount of flexibility you can have and the type of solution you want and has customized the pricing based on that. If you only want an AML solution, you will be charged separately. If you only want an activity monitoring solution, you will be charged separately. Or if you want a custom solution, you will be charged separately. If you want a custom solution as well as something you want to develop and use as plugins, then it will have different pricing altogether. So they have divided the pricing based on that.

What other advice do I have?

I would definitely recommend this solution to other users. From a developer perspective, it's easy for me to implement any new change. If we consider the cases of the requests or what we want as a financial institution, they change rapidly. The markets change and the rules change, regulations change. Implementation must be quick. It is easier to optimize. This is from a developer's perspective. From a user's perspective, you can actually make a change in your application on the fly, which will make you better than your competitor banks or financial institutions, which will affect your customers' profits because it is a service you are giving to a client, which in turn gives their services to the customer.

If you are giving our services to a bank, they would be customers for the bank, which would benefit them. If the bank is going to meet the changes quickly, if there is a new method of payment or something that can be included faster from a bank's perspective, that is a consideration. So definitely on the bank side, as well as the development side, I would recommend this to people who are considering this solution.

As a developer, we used to develop everything from scratch and stayed more time in a building, with the same stuff over and over again. But after using this product, rather than recreating the same thing, or reinventing the wheel, you can always make use of the existing things. I see something more quickly. You can implement things more quickly rather than spending your effort on things that don't matter at the end of the day.

I now work with a newer version of this tool. The newer version has a better UI and other functionalities. The underline technology and databases have improved since we first started to use the tool. It is now faster than earlier versions and they have introduced robotics as well.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Nice Actimize Fraud & Authentication Management a nine. Just keeping one point for the scope of improvement.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Implementer
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reviewer1596993 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a printing company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Good at pattern recognition, good scalability, and capable of processing large amounts of data
Pros and Cons
  • "The core engine seems to be better than the rest for pattern recognition. It is able to process large amounts of data."
  • "It has become too complex for its own good with a lot of versions. They are trying to do too much. Instead of keeping it sort of traditional and keeping the core search engine as a standalone and having analytical bolt-ons, they have decided to jam it all into the same product, which made the product overly complex and difficult to implement."

What is our primary use case?

I use it for financial claims monitoring. I am using its previous version.

What is most valuable?

The core engine seems to be better than the rest for pattern recognition. It is able to process large amounts of data.

What needs improvement?

It has become too complex for its own good with a lot of versions. They are trying to do too much. Instead of keeping it sort of traditional and keeping the core search engine as a standalone and having analytical bolt-ons, they have decided to jam it all into the same product, which made the product overly complex and difficult to implement.

Their professional services group could certainly use a boost. Their QA process is getting better, but it is still not where it should be. Their release QA crew could certainly use improvement.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for about six years.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Its scalability is good. They've got that covered.

Our clients are large businesses. It is used by analysts, and roughly, throughout the group, there are 3,000 to 4,000 users.

How are customer service and support?

I would rate them a seven out of 10. They need to improve on the response time. The level two support is good. It is the level one support that needs a little bit of coaching. This is the struggle that pretty much every software development firm goes through.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

It is quite complex. It is not straightforward.

What other advice do I have?

I would go for it. With all the negatives, it is still the best in the market.

I would rate it an eight out of 10.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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reviewer2110755 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
MSP
Easy to deploy, stable, and scalable
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is automation which makes our transaction capture 40 percent easier."
  • "The patch section has room for improvement."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution to pull the information required to submit the applications and documentation.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is automation which makes our transaction capture 40 percent easier.

What needs improvement?

The patch section has room for improvement. For example, if we have a fax number system in a google search with a particular person who has anything attached to their relationship, there should be an easier way to match the information. Also when a customer ID or address changes the information should sync up and match. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is easy. The deployment time depends on the individual and if we have multiple IDs and joint accounts. A Minimum of five days would be required to deploy the solution.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution is expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

The solution is more costly than some others, but if the organization can afford it, I would recommend it over the others.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user1580727 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Complience at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
A very scalable solution with expansive transaction monitoring fleet and impressive ability to customize a model
Pros and Cons
  • "They have a very expansive transaction monitoring fleet. They have a lot of models and rules to choose from. Its flexibility or ability to customize a model is very impressive as compared to other platforms."
  • "It is complex in terms of daily maintenance. Other detection platforms run on a 15-day or one-month window, whereas this particular platform runs daily. Therefore, it requires daily maintenance. If there is a delay due to this daily maintenance, it creates a snowball effect impacting the subsequent days. It takes a lot of effort to catch up and get into BAU mode. It would be great if they could include certain features to make the daily processing less complex, but I don't see that happening. It is a complex product, and with each version release, it is just becoming more and more complex."

What is our primary use case?

We are using it for transaction monitoring. Actimize has multiple modules, and we are using the SAM module. We are using version 8.5 of this module.

What is most valuable?

They have a very expansive transaction monitoring fleet. They have a lot of models and rules to choose from. Its flexibility or ability to customize a model is very impressive as compared to other platforms.

What needs improvement?

It is complex in terms of daily maintenance. Other detection platforms run on a 15-day or one-month window, whereas this particular platform runs daily. Therefore, it requires daily maintenance. If there is a delay due to this daily maintenance, it creates a snowball effect impacting the subsequent days. It takes a lot of effort to catch up and get into BAU mode. It would be great if they could include certain features to make the daily processing less complex, but I don't see that happening. It is a complex product, and with each version release, it is just becoming more and more complex.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I would rate it a five out of ten in terms of stability. It requires daily maintenance, which contributes to less stability. If daily maintenance wasn't required, I would rate it very high in terms of stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is very scalable. I would rate it a nine out of ten in terms of scalability. 

We currently have around 60 users. It is being used for multiple business lines in our bank. Its usage is very high. As far as expansion is concerned, there are no plans to expand its usage for the next two or three years.

How are customer service and technical support?

I don't directly reach out to them. This is something our in-house technical support team does, but based on what I hear from our technical support team, their turnaround time is average. Our team is not extremely happy with their customer service. When they open a ticket, it has to go through a lot of bureaucracy. They open a ticket, and someone from the Actimize side evaluates that ticket to see whether it is critical or not. They get back based on its criticality.

How was the initial setup?

Its initial setup is very complex. It took three months because it involved a lot of troubleshooting.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I don't know how licensing is handled in the current organization. I know that Actimize provides an option for yearly licensing because that's what we had in my previous job.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated other options. The main reason for choosing Actimize was that it is a market leader in the AML transaction monitoring space, which is a huge plus when it comes to the regulator or even optics associated with it.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution, but this recommendation comes with a disclaimer that a big support team is required to maintain this solution daily. It is a good solution, but you should be ready to spend a lot on the technical support team.

I would rate Nice Actimize Fraud & Authentication Management an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Enterprise Analytics at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Leaderboard
Offers good exposure from a compliance point of view
Pros and Cons
  • "I like the tracking methodology. Though it was implemented on-premises, the compliance is compatible with it. It will have certain modifications with RPM and APR. It has good exposure from a compliance point of view."
  • "From the front end side, the UI is definitely user-friendly. It is highly compatible as long as the reading is at the coding point of view. But it can't provide certain high coding. When a person clicks on any kind of scenario or alert, I would like to have a metadata help menu."

What is our primary use case?

Actimize warns us of suspicious activity reports and suspicious transactions when a device is non-compliant. Thereafter balance transfer without insurance, inadequate channels, certain kind of use cases they are used to sort out phone transfer in violation of AML web concern.

What is most valuable?

I like the tracking methodology. Though it was implemented on-premises, the compliance is compatible with it. It has certain modifications with RPM and APR. It has good exposure from a compliance point of view.

What needs improvement?

Risk Control Monitor, RCM, needs improvement. Whenever we go for another generation, if it happens to have a lead generation failure or a high amount of alerts, the generation filers take a longer time. 

From the front end side, the UI is definitely user-friendly. It is highly compatible as long as the reading is at the coding point of view. But it can't provide certain high coding. When a person clicks on any kind of scenario or alert, I would like to have a metadata help menu.

For how long have I used the solution?

I used Actimize from 2017-2019 and I was responsible for the development and support of clients in Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Vietnam, and India. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We don't have problems with stability and scalability. It is a definitely scalable product. From the user point of view, it definitely has the scalability to handle an adequate workload.

How are customer service and technical support?

I would rate their technical support a 7.5 out of ten.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward. The deployment did not take much time. Scope expansion takes a certain amount of time and it's more as compared to that of the normal one. Performance tuning is required.

What about the implementation team?

I had a team of four employees who used to do the deployment. 

What other advice do I have?

If you want to go with Actimize, one drawback is that you will need to have two different database consoles. One is for the RMS Management Studio another is for an Oracle database. If you would like to go with a single unified version and would like to have the simpler kind of console, then Opstat is also equally good. It depends on the vendor's requirements.

In the next release, I would like to see a provision for the generation of identity-based notifications, like email notifications that can be communicated to Outlook or Microsoft. Email notifications can definitely be a value-add. 

I would rate Actimize an 8.5 out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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reviewer1460205 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP - Compliance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
A user friendly case management tool; unnecessarily complex
Pros and Cons
  • "The case management tool is user friendly."
  • "This solution is unnecessarily complex."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case of this solution is transaction monitoring and for case management. We are customers of Nice and I'm the VP of compliance.

How has it helped my organization?

We have been using this product for regulatory reasons because it's a market leader in AML domain. It helps when we go to the regulators and can show them we're using a solution that is a market leader. It gives us comfort and gives the regulators comfort that our transaction monitoring software is up to scratch. 

What is most valuable?

The case management feature is the most valuable. The case management tool is user friendly.

What needs improvement?

I think this solution is unnecessarily complex. The transaction monitoring software, SAM, in particular, is extremely complex.

An additional feature I'd like to see would be a good data quality monitoring module. Currently, we have to build our own module, our own functions, in order to monitor the quality of data which goes into Actimize. Actimize knows that if the data quality is not up to the mark, the solution doesn't function as expected. If they could build some sort of data quality monitoring module on top, which is inbuilt into their functionality, that would be really helpful.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for close to five years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

If installed correctly, this is a stable product.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This solution is scalable. For the case management tool, which is a user interface, we have around 150 users. 

How are customer service and technical support?

I don't deal with technical support so can't comment on the quality, but I know a lot of technical support is required from Actimize. It's not a solution that is very easy to maintain. I know from our IT staff, that they have had to hire many past Actimize employees because it's just a very complex tool.

What other advice do I have?

I have experience with three softwares and I would recommend Mentor on top of Actimize. The technical component of Actimize is unnecessarily complicated. The solution requires a lot of testing.

I would rate this solution a seven out of 10. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Associate Manager - Sanctions, Regulatory Affairs and AML Projects at UAE Exchange
Real User
Very user-friendly, interactive, informative and very light; a huge time-saver for our company
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution user-friendly interactive, informative and it is also very light."
  • "Could include additional customization"

What is our primary use case?

We are customers of NICE Actimize (Watch List Filtering, Customer Due Diligence and Suspicious Activity Monitoring modules) and I worked on Sanctions and regulatory affairs during implementation of the solution. 

How has it helped my organization?

Previously there were processes in place but not completely automatic. With NICE Actimize those processes have now been completely automated. We now receive a comprehensive view of exactly what risks are involved with a particular scenario. It provides a complete picture which helps in rational decision making quicker. 

What is most valuable?

This solution is user-friendly interactive, informative and it is also very light. The dashboard is comprehensive and fully informative. We like the full set solution starting with evaluation, then implementation, and after implementation support. NICE Actimize has people with domain expertise and experience who add value to the processes, function and organization as a whole. The team is very professional. 

What needs improvement?

As business user, we do not encounter challenges working on the solution. Minor customizations will help to improve the processes. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for five years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's a very stable and highly reliable solution. Actimize has technical experts that understand our business volumes and based on that they extrapolate volumes for the present and also for the future. Based on that data, they recommend certain configurations and that enables a fully reliable solution. Maintenance is carried out by our four-person technology team and the rest are business users. If there are any day-to-day issues, we liaise with our technical team and they rectify it if they can. If not, they can connect with NICE Actimize support. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable. We have around 75 people using it in the company and plan to increase that at some point in the future. 

How are customer service and technical support?

The technical support is excellent, they are very supportive. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Not applicable

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward. It's a solution used for banking institutions so the NICE experts had to understand our business and the reason we're using it, particularly as we were the first client in the region and industry to implement the solution. 

Implementing the solution required many changes from us at an organizational level and from our POS system as well. It required some time and it's difficult to quantify that. It's been a great journey for us. We carried out a risk due diligence before integration, and we did the implementation ourselves with necessary support from NICE Actimize throughout. 

What about the implementation team?

It's a combination of both. As highlighted above, NICE Actimize has the people with right expertise and experience. Level of expertize: 9/10

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

One time licensing and implementation fee in addition to an annual maintenance contract. Any new requirements or custom enhancements will follow the change order process. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated some other solutions, such as iDetect, 3i Infotech, SAS and LexisNexis.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution, it's very comprehensive and has given us many insights. We learned a lot from NICE Actimize team which helped us streamlining certain processes in our organization as well. 

I would rate this solution a 9 out of 10. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Superior transaction monitoring to crackdown on money laundering
Pros and Cons
  • "It's a very good product for compliance and transaction monitoring for anti-money laundering."

    What is our primary use case?

    I use this solution for transaction monitoring.

    Within my company, roughly 50 people use this solution. Within our other branches, I would estimate that there are roughly 200 people using this solution — mostly analysts and supervisors in charge of compliance.

    My team does the testing. From the bank-side, we are the product owner. If there are any requirements from the end-users, we raise it to the Actimize team. If it requires maintenance, then usually the maintenance team handles it, but sometimes, we handle it from our side as well. On my side, we have a team of about 10 to 15 people who can help with maintenance.

    How has it helped my organization?

    For the past 10 years, anti-money laundering is something that has really developed in Malaysia, especially in Malaysia and Singapore. Anti-money laundering and transaction monitoring solutions are really an important component in our banks — we didn't have this before.

    To be honest, I had never used a similar application before but based on my experiences using Actimize, it's a solid application and very user-friendly as well. 

    NICE Actimize has actually removed a lot of manual processes, especially related to monitoring our customer's transactions. Based on the rules that we have set, it helps us a lot in the first layer of filtering. It has removed a lot of manual processes as most of our customers perform recurring transactions.

    Before we had Actimize, we had to filter or evaluate the same behaviors for the same customers or the same accounts on a monthly basis. Thanks to Actimize, we have certain rules that essentially rule-out these kinds of transactions because, based on our previous evaluation, it is actually a common or normal behavior of the customer. We have actually removed that big part. Now it can really help us in terms of evaluating customer transactions.

    What is most valuable?

    It's a very good product for compliance and transaction monitoring for anti-money laundering.

    When an unusual customer transaction occurs, it triggers an alert that notifies us. 

    The UI is very user-friendly.

    What needs improvement?

    I have experience using Actimize with two different organizations, Citibank and UOB. Both are slightly different in terms of the user interfaces, but when it comes to what rules we set and the threshold in scoring, that actually depends on the bank itself, on the compliance- side. In UOB in particular, the response time was a bit slower than Citibank.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I have been using this solution as a tester for almost three years.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    NICE Actimize is very stable.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    I would say that 90% to 95% of the time, when there is an issue scalability-wise, is not a limitation from Actimize. We can actually configure it. 

    How are customer service and technical support?

    Personally, I found the technical support to be a little slow. I'm not sure if it's because of the setup or the configuration of UOB Actimize, but when we raise an issue, they don't respond very quickly. Sometimes this impacts our project timing which is also a problem for our end-users as well.

    How was the initial setup?

    I was not involved in the initial setup.

    That is handled by the compliance team; we are just a support team that assists them in terms of testing only.

    What other advice do I have?

    I would recommend this product to any other organization that wants to use it. My advice would be: it is very important to prepare upfront. What is the main theme or types of configurations that you want to do? This is important because after you have implemented it, it will be very difficult to change it in the future. For example, currently, I'm handling a project for two different countries (Thailand and Vietnam), but it's on the same platform. These countries have agreed to use this platform and they will have their own configurations. 

    Before that, I was doing a project for Singapore and the Philippines but I did it with two different platforms. It was the same product, but with two different platforms and different configurations. After some time, a few years of using Actimize for Singapore and the Philippines earlier, we decided that these two countries should use Actimize as well, but there were some takeaway points from Singapore and the Philippines that we wanted to change for this different platform for Taiwan and Vietnam.

    Whatever issues that we experienced when we did the project for Singapore and the Philippines earlier, we didn't encounter those problems in Taiwan and Vietnam later. It was actually a good lesson learned.

    Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give NICE Actimize a rating of nine. It's a great solution for project monitoring. 

    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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