BSG and Aria Systems Deliver Gaming Industry’s Most Comprehensive Risk Management Solution
Austin, Texas - September 17, 2008 — Game Developers Conference — BSG, a provider of advanced payment services for digital media merchants, and Aria Systems, a provider of billing and life cycle management solutions to monetize games, today announced the delivery of the most comprehensive, global risk management solution specifically designed for gamers. Ensuring safe and secure transactions is a key determining factor in protecting paying gamers from a negative experience. This solution enables game publishers to prevent fraud from occurring and reduces charge backs and revenue loss, while maintaining a fair and positive experience for their gamers.
The joint solution combines Aria System’s proprietary gamer billing and CRM data with BSG’s Advanced Payment Gateway data to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive analysis of gaming transactions in real-time. No other solution analyzes gamer membership profiles, forum, guild participation and unique registered user profiles to determine the types of gamers who could pose a risk to other customers. By identifying those gamers who have an ongoing and trusted relationship with publishers via third-party channels, and then customizing the solution by geography, genre and industry experience, BSG and Aria Systems enable publishers to proactively protect gamers and the game experience, as well as their revenue streams.
“Working with Aria Systems, we’re able to distinguish those pockets of suspect users from good users so that game publishers can reduce the incidence of fraud, charge backs and other forms of revenue loss,” said Greg Carter, CEO of BSG.
“We understand how important it is for game publishers to protect gamers and their experience,” said Ed Sulivan, CEO of Aria Systems. “By combining the analysis of BSG’s payment data with our experiential customer data, we’re able to deliver a best-in-class fraud prevention solution that ensures game publishers can do just that.”
About Aria Systems
Aria Systems is the leading provider of on-demand and subscription billing solutions encompassing the full spectrum of Billing and Customer Lifecycle Management services. The A+ Billing Platform offers clients the industry's most secure, flexible, and scalable tool for accelerating revenue capture, optimizing cash flow, and enabling actionable market intelligence while significantly reducing operating costs throughout each phase of the customer lifecycle.
Aria is the SaaS billing leader in terms of experience, execution, and reliability. The company has handled over one million accounts, and managed more than one billion transactions, since its inception in 2003. Additionally, Aria leads the market in security and compliance having achieved both end-to-end level one PCI Compliance and SAS70 compliance.
Aria's executive team has over 80 years combined experience in billing and 50 combined in SaaS, and is backed by investments from Hummer Winblad Partners, Venrock, and Dave Labuda, former CEO of Portal Software (acquired by Oracle). The company is headquartered in Media, Pa. (metropolitan Philadelphia), and has offices in the San Francisco bay area.
About BSG (http://www.bsgclearing.com)
Established in 1988 and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, BSG Clearing Solutions is a leading and trusted provider of advanced payment services for digital media, communications providers and eCommerce merchants. BSG's comprehensive, multi-channel payment solutions optimize merchant revenue by encompassing full service credit card merchant acquisition, integrated financial risk management, and unique, alternative payment options such as Bill2Phone™ that reaches more than 350MM consumer wireline and wireless phone bills. BSG Clearing Solutions is an operating subsidiary of Billing Services Group Limited, which is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) under the ticker symbol BILL.
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