Banks, companies, auditors all face increasing statutory pressures to report, to comply and to detect fraud, money laundering and data errors.

Often this involves analysis of millions of transactiosn which may be in disparate systems.

BI is the obvious solution but designing a data warehouse and the reports is a daunting task. Let our prebuilt solution take away the pain with a rapid implementation designed specifically for regulatory reporting.

We also offer an advanced tool for company head offices, and external auditors to rapidly analyse financial data with google like search capability to detect fraud and errors. Since 2003 Arbutus Software has provided organizations with simple, flexible solutions to access, develop and analyze data from a wide variety of data types and data sources, including the most complex legacy and mainframe file structures.

Arbutus can be used for a variety of applications of business intelligence, such as connection of computers to mainframes to access legacy data, data migration and consultation, data analysis and fraud detection. From ad-hoc tests to automate the data analysis for continuous auditing. Features incude:

Sophisticated Duplicate Testing
Arbutus allows you to identify the widest range of duplicates. In addition to “All the Same”, Arbutus offers “Same-Same-Different”, “Same-Same-Near” and “Same-Same-Similar”.

Compare Tables
With Arbutus, you can compare any two tables for differences. With just a few clicks, you can find out what has been added, deleted and changed. Importantly, the Compare command does not require that the data be sorted, so it can be used to compare any data files, regardless of format.

Powerful Data Export Capabilities
Arbutus offers the widest range of data export capabilities. For example, you can:
• Export directly to any database via ODBC
• Export to multiple tabs in Excel spreadsheets

Fuzzy Matching
Arbutus features a wide range of fuzzy matching capabilities utilizing the powerful Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm. This can be used within the same file or file-to-file testing in areas such as audit tests (e.g., test for similar vendor and employee addresses), data harmonisation or de-duplication, cost recovery, security matches between systems and data quality testing.

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