ACI Worldwide, a leader in combating fraud and driving innovation in the payments industry, leverages real-time data and machine learning to deliver exceptional value to its customers. The company's primary challenge is keeping up with the ever-evolving payment landscape and addressing inconsistencies in data schemas across products. ACI has chosen Apache Cassandra and DataStax for their exceptional performance capabilities, enabling them to achieve best-in-class KPIs for fraud management solutions. Looking ahead, ACI plans to move towards cloud-based solutions, incorporate more data from its products into the data warehouse, and expand its consortium data model. For other enterprises working with data, John Madden advises taking one piece at a time, not being afraid to fail, and following where the data insights lead.