ROI

• From identifying data to running the first analysis, implementation times have been reduced from 3-4 months down to 1-2 weeks.
• Data analysis specification changes that used to take a week to accomplish can now be turned around in two hours.
• Before, customer analysts spent 50% of their time manipulating data, now only 10-15%.

Fast Adaptation to Changing Market

RAI technology with Pervasive embedded integration increases responsiveness to changing market and customer conditions and opportunities.  RAI customers can take advantage of distressed assets that are not properly evaluated through technology that is adaptive in its ability to keep up with changing market conditions — and not burdened by in-house development cycles or traditional legacy system implementation cycles.

Improved Workflow

With flexible architecture and embedded integration, the customer has an opportunity to fully integrate the RAI solution with the existing loan processing workflow—without disruption.

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RAI looks for ETL toolset to facilitate data optimization

Response Analytics, Inc. is a leading Financial Services Optimization (FSO) company that solves mission critical issues and evolving business challenges, using best-in-class software innovations with a focus on business speed and measurable results. One of its flagship customers, a leading mortgage services provider, chose to use RAI’s Distressed Portfolio Management (DPM) solution. The customer was committed to using state-of-the-art technology to improve the performance of portfolios containing distressed assets, and to take advantage of current opportunities to value and purchase portfolios available for sale.

The ability to consolidate data from multiple sources is a key capability within RAI's DPM solution. The business processes that the application supports require constant extracts of data, in order to turn that data into usable model data, and process it through its optimization engine.

RAI decided to embed ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) capabilities within its optimization and BI technologies and make that transparent to its user base. Pervasive Data Integrator™ is RAI’s chosen ETL toolset.

Embeddable integration needed with stringent data reliability and cost requirements

RAI’s customer sought a portfolio performance solution to substantially boost the performance of all assets. Rather than buy a separate ETL product and manually manage it every time it received a job, RAI wanted to take an extensible, automated integration approach.  VP of Product Mgmt, Kevin Kaspszak, also wanted to set up tables and documents behind the scenes, which again pointed to an embedded option.  RAI's executives rigorously assessed embedded ETL options to find the right solution to meet their customer’s stringent data reliability and cost requirements. As a growing technology company, RAI had little room for error.

They searched the market to find innovative, extensible integration that would provide robust capabilities within a small-footprint, embeddable architecture.  Kevin Kaspszak said, "We evaluated Ascential, Informatica and others, but they have heavy, large infrastructure solutions that, unlike Pervasive Data Integrator, were impossible to embed."  The high price tags on those heavy solutions also made them unsuitable.

Embedded Pervasive integration delivers greater usability

RAI determined it could best meet its customer’s objectives by leveraging Pervasive Data Integrator’s flexibility and automation. Working behind the scenes, Pervasive offered the ETL capabilities to meet the dynamic, real-time data needs of RAI and the customer.

With the Pervasive embedded solution, RAI can focus on defining data and models and capturing business rules to run against RAI’s optimization engine. As RAI VP of Product Mgmt, Kevin Kaspszak, sees it, “ETL standalone is like DOS used to be on a PC – you need to know specialty syntax to make it work. Delivering embedded integration has the same impact as the Windows graphical wrapper did on the PC. Syntax is captured behind the scenes without the user knowledge, thus making the technology accessible and usable."

RAI can now focus on giving the customer results without having them worry about “what’s under the covers.”

Competitive advantages: More agile decisioning, faster implementation

In the end, the customer’s business process requirements have been met, and RAI is delivering profitable outcomes with its real-time decisioning software.  In Kevin Kaspszak's words, "Our technology with Pervasive embedded integration increases our ability to respond quickly and effectively to changing market and customer conditions and opportunities."

Along with its robust connectivity and proven record of success, Pervasive conducts dynamic evaluation faster.  In many cases, customers hired custom coders who took 2- 3 months to meet data throughput needs. Pervasive Data Integrator enabled RAI to accomplish the task for its mortgage services provider customer in only a couple of weeks.

Embedded integration with partner commitment works

RAI now partners with Pervasive at the business and technology levels. Pervasive has proven to be a valuable ally at both levels, providing assistance in developing opportunities and teaching integration best practices.