FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 28, 2017 – Ottawa, Canada: WiseWithData has been selected by Service Canada to provide advanced analytics services. Service Canada would like to improve their program and payment accuracy systems used by the Employment Insurance, Canadian Pension and Old Age Security benefits. Together these programs represent over $100B CAD in annual government spending. Under the agreement, WiseWithData will provide resources to understand the current state, and provide recommendations on improvements. Its recommendations are to be provided both to Service Canada and the Office of the Auditor General of Canada .
About WiseWithData
WiseWithData are leading experts in Apache Spark and legacy SAS based analytics. Our mission is to leverage the power of Apache Spark to Ignite Open Analytics for our customers. With deep knowledge of all aspects of business analytics, we are dedicated to helping customers get the most from their data assets. We offer consulting services for data warehousing, reporting and BI, forecasting, predictive modelling, natural language processing and simulation systems. We have deep domain experts in Fraud, Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering, and Security Intelligence solutions for the banking, government, healthcare and insurance sectors.
About Service Canada
Service Canada is the program operated by Employment and Social Development Canada to serve as a single-point of access for the Government of Canada’s largest and most heavily used programs, such as the Social Insurance Number, the Employment Insurance program, the Old Age Security program and the Canada Pension Plan. Service Canada centres also accept applications for Canadian passports.