Analysis flow intent

All analysis flows start, run a specific set of analytics, and complete. The intent of the analysis is most often to obtain an assessment of the potential for fraud to be occurring.

Most analysis flows return one or more assessments, where each assessment is a determination of potential fraud based on the analysis flow that was run. Thus, one of the first questions to ask is "What is being assessed?" Running an assessment on a single record (for example, a transaction) differs greatly with running an assessment based on historical anomaly detection of transactional activity by account. In both cases, assessments are the end goal, but how the assessment results are determined is different.

An end-to-end analysis flow runs the analysis and stores (or lands) the assessments in a single run. Other analysis flows within IBM® Counter Fraud Management are responsible for profile aggregation or other longer running analysis, with the intent of computing a score, which is then persisted in a profile table of some type. This score is used by a subsequent analysis flow to determine an assessment.

Note: The sample analysis flows that are included with IBM Counter Fraud Management are intended for analysis flows that run against each record of a common fact store object and return an assessment for each of the object records. The assessments are stored in the Counter Fraud database.