May 19, 2009

Press Release - Software & Information Industry Association & AdmitOne - Seattle, Washington

AdmitOne Security to Collaborate with the Financial Information Services Division (FISD) to Solve $8 Billion Anti-Piracy Problem

AdmitOne‘s Cross-industry Piracy Metrics and Remediation Techniques to Help Financial Industry Leaders Prevent Fraud and Capture Lost Revenue.

AdmitOne Security, the leading innovator of identity assurance and analytics solutions, today announced its participation in the Anti-Piracy Working Group of the Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)."

AdmitOne’s research and innovative strategies in dealing with the growing problem of data piracy and revenue loss due to shared IDs will benefit FISD, which develops best practices for the financial information industry.  Through collaboration with financial services industry leaders, AdmitOne will deliver customized solutions for the financial market.  Piracy is the unauthorized distribution, collection, usage, or receipt of proprietary financial information.

“Piracy is a major and on-going issue for the financial information services industry,” said Tom Davin, managing director of FISD.  “Our Anti-Piracy Working Group is the leading industry forum where members can exchange ideas, build relationships and develop revenue assurance strategies.”

At the forefront of the industry, FISD is helping define new technologies and techniques to uncover the root causes of revenue leakage and identify the best practices that can help online services achieve long-term sustainability.  Through its work with the FISD, AdmitOne is extending its deep experience in the real estate industry to help financial information services better monitor usage data to combat piracy and create revenue assurance. 

“Piracy is a costly industry problem that can no longer be ignored,” said Matthew Shanahan, senior vice president of strategy at AdmitOne Security.  “Analysis of multiple financial information companies revealed that account sharing, one form of piracy, represents a significant revenue leakage from a data supplier’s top line.  Capturing, authenticating and leveraging usage data is a critical first step in remediating online service revenue leaks.  As we develop solutions to stop this loss of revenue, AdmitOne is collaborating closely with the industry’s foremost experts to deliver tools that protect intellectual capital and restrict the use of pirated data.”

According to the industry’s leading research firm, Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, global spending on financial information totals $23B annually. 

“Market data vendors tell us that revenue loss due to the sharing of IDs and logins is at least 15 percent and could actually run 40 percent or higher,” says Douglas B Taylor, Managing Partner of Burton-Taylor.  “The current economic environment, coupled with the possibility of capturing $3 billion to $8 billion in lost revenue, is leading large and small market data firms to embrace new and innovative ‘revenue assurance controls’ like those perfected by AdmitOne.”

 

About FISD

The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association provides a neutral business forum for exchanges, market data vendors, specialist data providers, brokerage firms, investment managers and banks to address and resolve business and technical issues related to the distribution, management, administration and use of market data.  Participants use the forum to exchange ideas, build business relationships and improve the business climate associated with the worldwide flow of financial information.  For more information, see www.fisd.net. 

About AdmitOne

AdmitOne Security, located in Issaquah, Washington, is a venture-backed software-as-a-service provider of identity assurance and analytics solutions.  By combining rich usage data collection with robust analytics, AdmitOne Security provides solutions that identify and remediate revenue leaks for online services.  AdmitOne is currently delivering revenue assurance solutions in a variety of industries including: real estate, financial information services, SaaS, and digital media.  To learn more about AdmitOne Security, visit www.admitonesecurity.com or call +1 (425) 649-1100.