Released on = August 22, 2007, 10:53 pm

Press Release Author = PIC Solutions

Industry = Financial

Press Release Summary = Cape Town, 23 August 2007 - PIC Solutions, the leading
specialist credit risk management consultancy in the Africa and Middle East region,
will present at the joint annual conference of the Operations Research Society of
South Africa (ORSSA) and Operations Research Practice in Africa (ORPA) in September.


Press Release Body = PIC Solutions will be presenting the technical tool, used in
scorecard development called Model Builder for Predictive Analytics (MB4PA). MB4PA
has proven to be industry leading modelling software. It has brought a great deal of
efficiency and automation to the development of predictive models within PIC
Solutions. Sophisticated technology, enhanced reject inference methods as well as
the weights engineering meetings, are only a few advantages mentioned.

The 2007 ORPA/ORSSA conference is focused on the use of Operations Research (OR) in
Africa to aid development and propagate sustainable growth through the use of some
of the cutting edge techniques unique to the OR field.

The conference aims to highlight recent developments and trends in operations
research and will be held on 10-14 September in Cape Town, South Africa. For further
details on this conference, visit: www.orssaorpa2007.org.za

Eva Neves, Analytics Department Head at PIC Solutions, comments, "PIC Solutions are
using the leading analytical tools to develop scorecards and it is a privilege to
share this knowledge with the broad Operational Research industry in Africa."


About PIC Solutions
PIC Solutions provides consumer credit solutions to a wide range of blue-chip
organisations. We are experts in the fields of credit, risk and software and have an
established track record of success powered by solutions.

Our ongoing commitment is to enable clients to optimise the credit life cycle.

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Contact Details = PIC Solutions
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