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My Jaguar and Contract Builder Go Intranet
Intranet interfaces for two
of System 7's most innovative new features, My Jaguar Personal Desktop and
Contract Builder Form Designer have been moved up from their scheduled
availability in December 2003 to be released as part of Version 1.4,
due this June. My Jaguar and Contract Builder will be added to
the existing list of System 7 web-based functions that includes Executive
Web Queries, Approval Workflow Management, and Royalty
Collections Processing in order to create an entire Staff Intranet
Portal capability.
The completion of phase 1 of the Staff Intranet Portal
will provide executives, managers and staff with convenient access to System
7’s entire contract administration, rights
management and royalty processing knowledgebase through either
their company’s existing Intranet or an available HTML Menu System that can
be accessed from anywhere in the world, with full security protection.
Bill Gibbs, Senior Vice President, Operations
and System 7 Project Manager, is quoted as saying "Jaguar is committed to
producing both Windows and Web interfaces for our users in all key areas of
System 7. My Jaguar and Contract Builder represent major enhancements whose
primary purpose is to expand the ease of use and accessibility of System 7.
It makes perfect sense to place the creation of Web versions ahead of
traditional Windows development. This allows our clients to take maximum
advantage of the ability of Web functions to integrate with their allied,
non-Jaguar, systems and information resources through
Intranet portals or custom configurations, as needed."
For those who are unfamiliar with the capabilities of
Contract Builder and My Jaguar, the following are reprinted from the
January 2003 Jaguar News:
Contract Builder Form
Designer
Contract Builder brings System 7 as close as
possible to ease of use of Microsoft Word while maintaining all of the
essential Contract Intelligence that is System 7’s hallmark. Organizations
typically issue and manage a wide variety of contractual documents,
varying from 1 page Deal Memos to 100 page monuments to human creativity.
System 7 is designed to handle these extremes, as well as everything in
between. An average Jaguar client may have 20 distinct styles of
agreements, each with their own unique organization and structural issues.
Contract Builder is designed to
facilitate anything from instant creation of a draft sales memo, a
production Letter of Intent, an asset library acquisition, a single title
license, to a multi-year output agreement, with maximum
efficiency and accuracy in initial data entry, ongoing administration and
consequential financial processing.
Contract Builder provides a streamlined option that,
based upon a predefined Contract Type, asks only the questions that need to
be answered, and prints out an elegantly formatted signable agreement with
the absolute minimum of keystrokes and decisions
required to complete the process. Everything has been planned out
in advance, the data entry sequence, the questions that need to be answered,
the layout of the printed form, and the approval steps necessary for full
activation of the agreement as a living document within the organization.
The secret of Contract Builder’s power is its Form
Designer. This function provides a graphical utility that gives users
free reign to organize terms blocks, fields within those blocks, and
continuous text fields to best advantage in producing a readable, logical,
executable agreement. In addition, traditional Jaguar Rich Text font and
formatting capabilities are supported. The result is the
visual attractiveness and flow of a Microsoft Word
document that can be viewed, printed, compared, summarized,
integrated and analyzed by anyone with the proper security clearance,
company-wide. Contract Intelligence replaces the epidemic of Contract
Ignorance that hampers the effectiveness and profitability of most
intellectual property enterprises today.
Form Designer instructions are simultaneously
incorporated into the intelligence of the Contract Entry Wizard. The Wizard
automatically presents only those Sections that have been formatted to
appear on that Contract Type form. Most significantly, the Sections are then
presented in the precise order in which they will
appear on the printed page. The user interacts with an entry form
that corresponds as closely as possible to the expected output, and
potentially, to source documentation. A linear Document Assembly
process is thus facilitated that dramatically reduces the possibility of
accidentally omitted business terms or legal language clauses.
My Jaguar Personal
Desktop
System 7 takes customizability to a new dimension.
Each user is given the ability to predefine their viewing of system
information that is of greatest interest and utility in the performance of
their duties. This information is then
automatically and continuously displayed in Real-Time as part
of the user’s Personal Desktop. The process starts with a Preferences
function that gives each password-holder the ability to personalize their
screen background graphics, printer options, remote access search volumes,
and to decide which of the 6 optional Data Views are to be
automatically activated at sign on.
These Data Views encompass all of the primary
functions of the system. Their intention is to provide both convenient
drilldown access to source data and to highlight changes to critical
information that require immediate attention. These views include: My
Calendar, My Contracts, My People, My Assets, My Royalties and My Finance.
Each operates as an intelligent information manager
that makes users instantly aware of new system information that might impact
their job performance.
My Calendar brings visibility to System 7’s
integrated Action Management Event-Driven Calendaring System. New Events are
constantly being created and completed through Contract Administration,
Accounts Receivable and Workflow Management; some items are of global
importance, others are specific to a department or an individual knowledge
worker. Easy to use filtering enables the user to set the controls of My
Calendar to restrict displayed events to only those
activity types of genuine interest or concern. Examples of
restrictions include Date (Today, This Week, This Month, This Year), Parties
(Responsible Individual, Responsible Department, Category, Class, Type), or
Contract Component (Asset, Right, Territory, Distribution Channel, Function,
Agent, Salesperson).
My Contracts presents summary information on a
selected range of contracts. System 7’s Universal Contract Database
capability allows centralized access to all contract types: Development,
Production, Acquisition, Internal Use, Sales, Royalty-bearing, Agent and
Sub-Distribution. Contracts may be filtered by Type, Party, Asset,
Territory, Right, Date, Status, and many other options. Instant access to
contract editing, form printing, queries and
reports for a selected contract is accomplished in just two mouse
clicks. With My Calendar and My Contracts, timely contract administration is
easy.
My People provides visibility to one of the
most important aspects of any business: relationships. Active filtering
presents constantly updated information on
individuals, companies and departments that are of interest.
Instant access to in depth, graphing, pivoting queries places everything
that is known about the relationship, past, present and future, in view. My
People also operates as a convenient way to directly launch emails to
frequent contacts.
My Assets enables the managed exposure and
monitoring of key Properties and Titles without the drudgery of redundant
searching and possible confusion of similarly named assets. The first step
is to identify the Assets that are of interest. They are then continuously
listed and updated as part of the Personal Desktop. With proper security
clearance, Assets may be instantly edited as new information is developed.
In addition, Asset-related events, such as Release in a Territory, may be
defined to later automatically trigger global
multiple contract invoicing and other system functions.
My Royalties constantly monitors royalty
reporting activity, both the arrival and validation of new reports and the
delinquency of pending reports. Graphical drilldown
analysis allows instant presentation of countless insights by
gathering, summarizing and, as desired, exploding historical royalty
collections transactions in Bar Charts, Pie Charts and
traditional report formats. Visual indicators provide at-a-glance
information on the processing status of royalty submissions, exception
notices and calculation verification processes.
My Finance provides a continually updated
listing of all current payments and invoices by department, division or
other criteria. In addition to drilling down to detailed queries, My Finance
streamlines data entry and contract processing activities by automatically
filling in data entry forms with default information. Queries, Reports, Cash
Receipts, Credit Memos and Debit Memos are facilitated. New invoices and
payments are automatically flagged to ensure
reliable expediting of critical accounting events.
About
Jaguar News
Jaguar News is published periodically for the
purpose of maintaining communications with Jaguar’s clients, prospective
clients and other parties interested in the field of Intellectual Property
Contract Rights Management. Jaguar Consulting was founded in 1985
for the express purpose of designing, developing, installing and
supporting Intellectual Property Software
Solutions. Clients include Alliance-Atlantis Communications,
Cinar, DIC Entertainment, Explore International, Flextech Television,
Goodtimes Video, Hallmark Entertainment, Harmony Gold, HIT Entertainment,
Jim Henson Productions, Lions Gate Entertainment, Major League Baseball,
MGM, NBA, NBC, National Geographic Society, Nelvana, Sesame Workshop,
Southern Star, Warner Home Video and WNBA.
System 7 Universal Rights Management is
Jaguar’s seventh generation software product. It is an all-new design
created specifically to bring contract rights management technology to all
forms of intellectual property, including patents,
copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and
permissions. This groundbreaking system features a
Universal Contract Database, Multi-Level Rights Inheritance and a
fully configurable Custom Rights Framework. System 7 is available in
the following software modules: Contract Administration, Rights and
Restrictions, Workflow Management, Revenue Accounting, Royalties Receivable
and Participations Payable. Further information is available at
www.jaguartc.com.
Jaguar Consulting Inc.
Pasadena,
California
Lincoln Center, New York
London, United Kingdom
For additional information: Visit http://www.jaguartc.com
Or contact
Marlene Willett 626/796-1955 x201
mwillett@jaguartc.com
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