ACES (Automated Compliance and Evaluation System) Web Audit Technology vs. S&P Capital IQ vs. Claritas PRIZM Premier

The technology is very well suited for QC audits. It is also flexible enough to create audits for other purposes within the mortgage industry.

Cap IQ is well suited for analyzing security pricing and valuation, tracking stock performance over time, looking up comparable transactions, and analyzing valuations on an industry basis. The service is also well suited for charting and data analysis purposes.

Incentivized

• Nielsens account managers are amazing. I could brag about my account rep forever.
• Get onsight training, it helps the process start at lightspeed.
• Importing external information into consumerpoint is tricky, but super fast once it is learned. I'm pretty tech saavy and I did it wrong initially. Formatting is finicky. That's part of why the onsight training is so great.

• Peer comparisons
• Question filtering
• Response resolutions

Incentivized

• On-demand reliable financial data either through the platform or through the Excel Plug-In
• Great user interface, intuitive to use
• Great help desk function, quick and responsive
• Excellent auditability of financial data with easy traceback to source documents

Incentivized

• Segmentation.
• Media targeting and buying.
• Behavioral research.
• Purchasing behaviors.

• Reporting is through Business Objects, which requires someone proficient in that technology. If ACES could provide more assistance in this area it would wonderful.
• A more detailed user guide. Not all processes are explained well.
• Provide the ability to view updates in a PDF format so that we can review them at one time instead of one item at a time.

• The scope and depth of the collected data can be increased.
• The UI with little icons and buttons may be difficult at first but may become intuitive. The UI isn't horrible but might be better.
• Global data coverage, but US and UK markets have the greatest details. MENA and APAC lack.

Incentivized

• I would like better projections for micromarkets, such as non US Census metro areas.
• Organic segmentation can be very time consuming, but it always is.

[It's the] best ever.

Incentivized

It can be expensive, but the strategic insights you get from it are unreal. It is one of those products that we now wonder what we did without it. Segmentation is a must in whatever business and PRISM makes it significantly easier. We reviewed several synthetic and organic segmentation methods, including ESRI and k means clustering analysis, and PRIZM is by far the best.

S&P CIQ Pro has great data, however, the new pro version is currently difficult to use given how slow the data is to process

Incentivized

Similarity. It had better pricing and servicing module.

Incentivized

We had Capital IQ in addition to Bloomberg. It was much easier for a new person to use Capital IQ than Bloomberg. The ease of use was a huge selling point for us. Yahoo finance on the other hand is free, but you cannot gather all the data you may need in one location like you can in Capital IQ.

Incentivized

• ACES has assisted in organizing, streamlining and automating our qc processes as well as other required audits.

• S&P Capital IQ contributes to a more comprehensive analysis of companies when making decisions on how best to market them to potential buyers.
• S&P Capital IQ has enabled my company to be more efficient in learning about and valuing companies.
• Due to the quality and reliability of information S&P Capital IQ has, it is saving my company large amounts of time.

Incentivized

• Definitely a return on investment. We have been able to make much better use of our media buys. We have seen conversion rates skyrocket because of the targeting we were able to do.
• Our media buys were much more cost efffective. An example is the TV listing pages of the newspaper was cheaper than the front page for certain segments.
• It has helped support expansion into a new market for our health insurance products.
• We are able to design products based on the populations needs and behaviors rather than what someone heard.
• We were also able to map risky health behaviors across our service area and target the unhealthy by zip code.