ARC Wins 2009 TDWI Best Practices Award

Published on: June 24, 2009

Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) has earned the 2009 Best Practices Award from The Data Warehousing Institute. The annual awards recognize companies with innovative business intelligence and data warehousing projects. ARC was recognized for their exceptional achievements in the development and execution of data warehouse-driven business practices generating significant business value in providing Fraud Prevention Analytical Services utilizing Teradata with advanced, predictive analytics.

ARC has been providing fraud solutions to the airline and travel industry for over 10 years, continually adapting approaches, detection methods and reusability of solutions. The process has grown from manually intensive reviews of paper documents for reactive fraud prevention solutions to the development of highly proactive, adaptable, analytical models supported by a highly available Teradata infrastructure.

“ARC can now detect fraudulent ticketing within hours as compared to weeks,” said Dottie Hogan, ARC’s director of risk management. Through deep data mining and predictive models (using the 2 billion travel transactions in the ARC data warehouse), and in conjunction with special fraud monitoring tools and reports, ARC is able to alert both travel agencies and airlines of potentially fraudulent transactions in ample time to cancel reservations or intercept passengers in time for additional fare collection. For more information, visit www.arccorp.com.