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SAS a Leader in financial crime management solutions, says top research and advisory firm

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Highest current offering score and top possible marks in nine of 11 criteria distinguish SAS in recent analyst evaluation

CARY, N.C., Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Global data and AI innovator SAS is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Financial Crime Management Solutions, Q3 2026, Forrester Research’s latest evaluation of the market’s most significant solution providers. Among the 15 firms evaluated, SAS earned the highest overall score in the current offering category – 4.70 out of 5.

Forrester: “SAS’ vision shines with its converged support for AML and fraud management plus agentic AI capabilities…”

“SAS’ vision shines with its converged support for AML and fraud management plus agentic AI capabilities for investigations and decisioning,” notes the Wave report, one of the industry’s most established and closely followed vendor evaluations benchmarking fraud and financial crime technology.

In Forrester’s current offering analysis, SAS’ financial crime management solutions suite – run on AI-powered, cloud-native SAS® Viya® – also earned the highest possible score in nine of 11 criteria – more than any other vendor evaluated. SAS’ top scores span the full financial crime management life cycle:

Data integration.Administrator management.Watchlist management and screening.AI/machine learning (ML)-based risk scoring.Transaction type support.Queue definitions and alert routing.Case management.Third-party integrations.Regulatory and operational reporting.

SAS – which marked its 50th anniversary this year – received above-average customer feedback relative to other evaluated vendors in the Wave evaluation. In particular, customers like SAS’ ML model building and model testing capabilities.

Further, SAS received no below-par scores across the current offering criteria – the only solution provider to achieve that distinction. Collectively, these results underscore for SAS the breadth and depth of its platform and capabilities across fraud and financial crime management.

Fraud and AML converge around AI and data intelligence
That breadth and depth are critical for financial institutions as fraud and money laundering increasingly reveal themselves as two sides of the same coin.

“Financial institutions cannot converge fraud and AML detection on fragmented data, and they cannot safely scale agentic AI without trusted data and governance,” said Stu Bradley, Senior Vice President of Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions at SAS.

In the report, Forrester defines financial crime management solutions as integrated platforms that bring together enterprise fraud management with know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) capabilities.

That convergence, commonly called FRAML, reflects a practical reality: To detect and investigate modern-day financial crime effectively, institutions must connect the dots across fragmented data. That means linking overlapping identities (both real and synthetic) with accounts, transactions, behaviors and signals that often sit in separate systems.

“Forrester’s evaluation reflects firms’ urgency – and SAS’ ability – to connect disparate data sources, work across technologies and programming languages, and apply advanced analytics responsibly and consistently across fraud and financial crime detection,” added Bradley.

Notably, Chartis Research emphasized the same point in its recent Enterprise and Payment Fraud Solutions, 2026: Quadrant Update. Chartis’ SAS Vendor Spotlight called SAS’ support for FRAML convergence “a key differentiator.”

Agentic AI raises the governance stakes for financial crime management
According to Forrester, “Overall, SAS offers one of the strongest solutions in terms of technical capabilities.”

Its Wave report notes SAS’ “powerful AI agent” for extracting schemas from data sources, broad productized data source integrations and a wide range of customizable SAS IP algorithms for ML-based risk scoring.

With AI agents taking on more investigative and decisioning work with less human intervention, governance – encompassing trust, transparency, oversight and control – becomes even more consequential.

Forrester notes that “AI governance is also integral” to SAS’ vision and approach.

“As AI agents play a greater role in investigations and decisioning, strong governance and human oversight are paramount,” added Bradley. “Not to automate for automation’s sake, but to give investigators better context, more intelligent prioritization and trusted decision support so they can confidently tackle evolving threats. That’s the kind of responsible, data-driven AI SAS delivers.”

The AI advantage: moving from more alerts to better decisions
As criminals adopt more sophisticated tactics and exploit growing volumes of digital data and transactions, financial institutions need AI that helps them see more of the picture, not merely process more alerts.

Get practical advice for using predictive modeling, anomaly detection, customer segmentation, network analytics, and threshold setting and tuning to fight financial crime in the SAS white paper, How AI and Machine Learning Are Redefining Anti-Money Laundering.

About SAS
SAS is a global leader in data and AI, helping organizations make confident decisions with AI they can trust. For decades, SAS has set the standard for delivering software that drives meaningful impact, incorporating deep industry expertise, transparency and governance. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.

SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright © 2026 SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. This report is part of a broader collection of Forrester resources, including interactive models, frameworks, tools, data, and access to analyst guidance. For more information, read about Forrester’s objectivity here.

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NEO3 Launches Cadence, an AI-Powered ERP Implementation Platform Clients Can Watch in Real Time

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Offered by monthly subscription, trained on 400+ of the firm’s own implementations, and targeting 90-day go-lives on Oracle NetSuite.

NEW MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NEO3, LLC, an ERP consulting firm that has delivered more than 400 implementations since 1999, today announced the general availability of Cadence by neo³ — an AI-assisted ERP implementation platform delivered as a monthly subscription rather than a traditional capital project.

Cadence gives clients a live view of their own implementation: current stage, percent complete, what is finished, what comes next, and a single named next action. Each of the nine stages opens as a card showing documents submitted, questions outstanding, and decisions recorded — replacing the status call and the periodically updated slide.

The platform targets 90 days to go-live on qualified projects. AI produces first-pass requirements, scope, and configuration documentation that consultants review and correct — cutting manual documentation roughly in half and redirecting about twice as much consultant time toward client teams.

“This year we changed our tagline to AI-Powered ERP, and we meant it,” said Jim Rosenberg, President and CEO of NEO3. “We did not put our logo on a general-purpose chatbot. Cadence’s AI is trained on our own implementations — four hundred-plus real projects, what worked and what broke. Every recommendation cites the finding behind it, and no output reaches a client without one of our consultants reviewing it. AI does the volume. Our people do the judgment.”

Data conversion, where implementations most often lose schedule, is handled across three of the nine stages — setup data, core data, and go-live data — each with its own approval gate. AI cleanses, maps, and validates records and flags exceptions for consultant review, and conversion is included in the subscription rather than billed as a separate scope item. Clients also receive a learning system built around their own configuration, available for the life of the subscription to train future hires.

“ERP has always been a capital decision — a big number and a long approval cycle before anything can start,” Rosenberg said. “A predictable monthly payment changes who can get started, and because we stay engaged for as long as a client runs on the system, our incentives point the same direction as theirs.”

NEO3 is also extending Cadence to existing clients for support, continual improvement, and additional projects such as warehouse management and CPQ.

Availability

Cadence by neo³ is available now for Oracle NetSuite implementations. Registering at cadence.neo3.ai provides access to a product demonstration and an instant implementation estimate.

About NEO3, LLC

NEO3 is an AI-powered ERP consulting firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in New Middletown, Ohio. An Oracle NetSuite Solution Provider Partner, NEO3 has delivered more than 400 ERP implementations, including more than 90 on NetSuite, for manufacturers, distributors, nonprofits, and healthcare organizations. Its consultants are based entirely in the United States. Learn more at neo3.com.

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Marketing Leaders from the Philadelphia Eagles, NASA, HubSpot, and Nuuly Join Bestselling Author Ann Handley at Digital Summit Philadelphia 2026

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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Digital Summit Philadelphia, the two-day conference for marketing leaders will take place September 23–24, 2026 at The Bellevue Hotel, bringing together marketing executives, strategists, and practitioners to explore the latest shifts in AI, search, content, and brand strategy.

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Beyond the keynotes, the agenda features a lineup of speakers including Christina Clark, Head of Product for SEO at HubSpot, on building content that wins in the growing field of answer engine optimization; Kim Gallagher, Executive Director of Marketing & Customer Success at Nuuly, in a fireside chat decoding Gen Z consumer behavior; and Thalia K. Patrinos, Communication Strategist at NASA, on leadership lessons in authenticity.

The two-day program is organized into multiple concurrent tracks, giving attendees the flexibility to build a schedule around their priorities. Sessions across these tracks dig into some of the industry’s most pressing topics, including generative engine optimization (GEO) and AI search, AI-powered lead generation and paid media bidding, content frameworks that drive conversion, personal branding for career growth, and the ethical questions raised by AI adoption in marketing.

Select premium sessions including deep dives on scaling GEO with AI-powered agents and building repeatable, higher-converting content systems will be reserved for attendees holding a Premium or VIP pass.

In addition to the educational programming, the event will offer extensive networking opportunities throughout both days, including multiple networking recharge breaks, exhibits, two networking lunches, a happy hour, and invite-only VIP reception on the evening of September 23.

Digital Summit Philadelphia is part of the Digital Summit series, which hosts 8+ marketing conferences across the United States.

Registration and full agenda details are available at digitalsummit.com/philadelphia. You can use code NEWS to save $100 off any ticket.

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Edimakor V5.2.0 Integrates DeepSeek V4 for AI Story and Elevates AI Avatars with New Templates

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HONG KONG, Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HitPaw Edimakor V5.2.0 has arrived with major upgrades designed to make AI video creation faster, more consistent, and easier to manage. The latest release introduces DeepSeek V4 integration for smarter AI story generation, alongside a new AI Avatar template system that helps creators produce digital human videos more efficiently. The update also brings improvements to the AI Head Swap feature — giving users greater flexibility when creating character-based content.

Together — these enhancements streamline the creative journey from developing a story and building visual assets to creating reusable AI avatars and producing finished videos.

What Is New in Edimakor V5.2.0?

AI Story Generator with DeepSeek V4 Integration

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The update also introduces full-screen previews for character, scene, and prop assets. Creators can review these visual elements more clearly before moving forward with their projects. Combined with improvements in generation speed and quality, the enhanced AI Story Generator makes it easier to develop richer visual stories with less manual effort.

AI Head Swap for More Natural Character Replacement

Edimakor V5.2.0 also upgrades its AI Head Swap capability, offering a more complete replacement than traditional AI Face Swap. As Face Swap primarily changes facial features while Head Swap replaces the entire head and hairstyle.

This difference helps solve common visual problems caused by mismatched hairstyles and face shapes. It can also deliver more natural results when characters appear from side angles, when parts of the head are obstructed, or when the subject makes vigorous movements.

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The AI Avatar feature receives a standalone update focused on making digital human creation faster and more convenient. New one-click video templates provide ready-made settings for different scenarios, allowing creators to generate AI avatar videos without building every project from scratch.

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A More Complete Story-to-Video Workflow

Edimakor V5.2.0 brings smarter storytelling, reliable character creation, and reusable AI Avatar workflows together in one platform. DeepSeek V4 helps develop the narrative and visual assets, while AI Head Swap provides greater flexibility for character creation. Upgrade to Edimakor V5.2.0 and experience a more streamlined approach to AI storytelling, character creation, and video production.

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