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A similar system was put in place by a pharmacy system to detect employee narcotics abuse. They'd throw an alarm when a pharmacist started dispensing pills at a
by tricky 16y ago
A similar system was put in place by a pharmacy system to detect employee narcotics abuse. They'd throw an alarm when a pharmacist started dispensing pills at a rate outside their SD.
The system worked great except in the case where a pharmacist slowly ramped up usage as his addiction worsened. Seems like that's a feature that works well in your case. As a business sells more stuff, their transactions will ramp up and your model will still hold.
nice.
- jasonlotito 16y agoThat's one of the cases we don't alert ourselves too: getting a lot of transactions is a good thing. =) In the reverse, however, is another issue entirely. A site that is slowly getting less traffic won't be alerted. However, this is where we have to draw the line. We aren't looking for long term trends. Rather, immediate issues. Basically, if a site that normally has 20 attempted transactions during the last hour suddenly has 0, is this a problem? There is still a lot of tweaking that needs to go into the system. We're also exploring how to use this in other areas as well. Since all these accounts are internal, it's easy for me to get feedback. The end goal, however, is to be notified as soon as possible when something occurs that will negatively affect our bottom line.