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February 2003

• Seminar - Driving Revenue Through Licensing Technology
• Contract Intelligence Benefits
• High Performance Technology
• About Jaguar News

Seminar - Driving Revenue Through Licensing Technology

SPONSORED BY

Are you optimizing your intellectual property assets? Are you considering an intellectual property licensing system but unsure of the ROI?

Intellectual Property is THE most important asset in any media & entertainment enterprise - key to your company's continued growth and success. As part of the upcoming ETA Entertainment Technology Alliance 2003 Conference, Deloitte & Touche, in collaboration with Jaguar Consulting, invite you to attend this Solution Seminar:

• Join Deloitte & Touche’s presentation of a business case for an integrated sales, licensing and business intelligence solution.
• See a FREE demonstration of Jaguar’s System 7 Universal Rights Management – world’s leading licensing technology solution. You need not be registered to the ETA Conference to attend.
• Improve your productivity and confidence
• Reduce your stress level

WE look forward to seeing you!

To register visit http://www.jaguartc.com/seminars/

For additional information contact Marlene Willet at 626.796.1955 or mwillett@jaguartc.com

Registration required by 12 Noon Friday February 21 to assure seating.

Contract Intelligence Benefits

System 7 is the result of 18 years of continuous refinement and breakthrough innovations. System 7 is licensed in these functional modules: Contract Administration, Rights and Restrictions, Workflow Management, Revenue Accounting, Royalties Receivable and Participations Payable. Benefits to industry leading clients such as Warner Home Video, Sesame Workshop, National Geographic Society, NBC, NBA and Hallmark Entertainment include:

Revenues

• Precision Rights Ownership and Availability Analysis
• Perpetual Agent and Distributor Performance History
• Maximum Asset Recombination and Repurposing
• Integrated Sales, Marketing and Distribution Campaigns

Profits

• Reduced Guarantee and Receivables Write-downs
• Expanded “Success Premium” Opportunities
• Optimized Exclusive, Co-Exclusive and Non-Exclusive Windows
• Analyzed and Validated Royalty Collections & Payments

Service

• Customized Creative, Acquisition and Sales Agreements
• Accelerated Contract Negotiation, Approval and Execution
• Monitored Contractual Obligations and Contingencies
• On-line New Product Review and Release Collaboration

Confidence

• Secure Contractual Rights Collision Testing
• Efficient Multi-Level Rights and Restrictions Management
• Configurable Information Sharing and Privacy
• Fulfilled Fiduciary Responsibilities

Control

• Contract-Defined Automatic General Ledger Account Generation
• Critical Accounts Receivable Transaction Alerts
• Consistent Long Form Contract and Deal Memo Preparation
• Accurate Accounting Period Closings

High Performance Technology

Scalable n-Tier Architecture

System 7 is an n-tier application consisting of four independent tiers:

The User Interface tier includes HTML pages hosted by Microsoft Internet Information Server for the Queries and Extranet functions of the application. The balance of the User Interface tier is an unrestricted Multiple Document Interface that allows simultaneous access to as many data entry, reporting, processing and HTML functions as allowed by either personal workstation memory or Windows Terminal Server capacities.

The User-Centric Business Logic tier is built using Microsoft Visual Basic. Its purpose is to provide instant validation and business rules enforcement to the application.

The Data-Centric Business Logic tier includes all database access routines for System 7. It may be co-located on the same server as the Database or may operate on an unlimited number of parallel servers to increase performance in demanding applications. This tier has been written with Microsoft Visual Basic.

The Database tier uses Microsoft SQL Server 2000. One of the primary design goals in creating System 7 as an n-Tier application was to enable the effective and efficient substitution of either Oracle or IBM DB2 database technologies to meet specific requirements.

Easy to Maintain Normalized Database

Normalization of a database involves a dedicated focus on storing all system activities as independent transactions and all master tables as purely relational reference information. Some accounting systems simplify their programming logic by storing data redundantly, typically in the form of summary buckets that accumulate data from a source transaction table. The challenge with this arrangement is to keep the information synchronized between the two tables. Repair utilities and data monitoring reports add to the administrative workload of supporting a non-normalized database.

System 7 in contrast was designed from the start to store 99.999% of its data elements in a single database location. This fact, combined with the relational and data integrity inherent in a database server ensures that no data is ever lost or accidentally blended with unrelated information. All reports are driven from actual source transactional detail, no matter how highly summarized. This atomization of data allows many reports to offer Summary, Detail and Exploded levels of presentation as options at the time of printing. Database normalization facilitates constant system stability, accuracy and accessibility.

Remote Access Performance Tuning

System 7 is designed for use with gigantic databases that must be accessible worldwide. Key tables easily climb into the millions of data records as history is accumulated and the scope of the use of the system broadens as the benefits of Contract Intelligence are recognized throughout the organization. The Scalable Lookup functionality allows each user to establish the maximum number of data records that will be pulled into view by each search command. The List Manager maintains actively used Reference Tables as an automatically updated locally accessible resource. Combined, these two services minimize the system bandwidth required to place data and information in front of the user to that which is needed for maximum system responsiveness. These technologies combined with System 7’s highly tuned n-Tier architecture provide optimum system performance through all types of connection technologies to branch offices and road warriors all over the world.

Failed Transaction Rollback

Microsoft Component Services (MCS) provides System 7 with important scalability and performance functionality. MCS is the core technology used to ensure maximum system and database stability under all network topologies and workstation configurations. MCS’ ability to consolidate database user connections reduces network communications traffic. MCS’ Transaction Rollback allows System 7 users to initiate complex posting processes such as Contract Revisions with the confidence that should a hardware or software failure occur at a critical moment, the entirety of any affected transaction will be automatically cancelled and then reprocessed intact at the earliest opportunity. System 7 is engineered to support worldwide operations of any magnitude in user count, location diversity and data volumes.

Referential and Data Integrity

The System 7 database, while significantly consolidated from predecessor Jaguar generations, contains an array of cross-linked and synchronized Reference Tables and Transaction Files. Referential Integrity is activated throughout the database in order to assure that data records do not unexpectedly become orphaned due to user error or rare software glitches, eliminating the expensive requirement for constant human database surveillance and administration. Data Integrity ensures that wherever system validity requires a column of data in a table to be free of duplicate values (particularly record keys), this occurrence becomes impossible. Accidentally duplicated data records that can otherwise “haunt” a system are prevented. Referential and Data Integrity work together within a Normalized database design to provide exceptionally reliable, predictable and maintainable data storage.

Source Code Options

System 7 uses mainstream software development technologies that are familiar to Information Technology departments at many large organizations. Microsoft Visual Basic, MS Internet Information Server, MS SQL Server 2000, MS Visual SourceSafe, MS Visio, Crystal Decisions Crystal Reports are the tools used to produce the magic. Jaguar offers a Site License (all modules, unlimited users) that includes 100% developer access to Source Code for self-support, self-maintenance and self-development, as desired. Jaguar also offers a Conditional Source Code License option for companies whose mission critical use of System 7 demands that on-site technical support be continuously available.

About Jaguar News

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Pasadena, California 
Lincoln Center, New York
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