Vehicle Stock Monitor - Experian Automotive

Experian is the leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to clients in more than 65 countries. The company helps businesses to manage credit risk, prevent fraud, target marketing offers and automate decision making. Experian also helps individuals to check their credit report and credit score, and protect against identity theft.

Brief

Experian's Automotive: Avco delivered fast, secure access to a comprehensive vehicle database on time and within budget.

Outcome

The new service enabled users to submit queries via a web front-end and/or a handheld device, for batches of up to 5,000 vehicles. The numerous fields returned from the database include make, model, engine capacity, date of manufacture, financial interest recorded against the vehicle, theft markers and insurance write-offs. This data has been derived from sources which include the DVLA, the Police and insurance companies.

The system receives incoming requests from clients and extracts the necessary information from Experian's central mainframe using a proprietary link. The matching results are then mapped to the customer's chosen output profile containing the relevant data fields and made available for download through the web-site, in the form of worksheets and/or portable documents.

By using its rapid development tools Avco was able to provide Experian with a solution in a very short period of time. The system has been a great success and now processes over one million vehicles per annum. Over the past 6 years this software has proven not just its longevity but its robustness to its users.