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Contract Accounting Software for Intellectual Property Management
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NEWS

April 2004 - Volume 2 Contents:

Why Waste Capital on Software Development?Cost of Ownership
Feature Richness
Continuous Contract Monitoring
Complex Rights Management
Contract to Finance Integration
Full Life Cycle Support
Previous Editions
About Jaguar News
 

Why Waste Capital on Software Development?

Numerous companies have spent tens of millions of dollars developing systems and solutions to support the process of intellectual property management.  To date, these efforts have not succeeded.  What could these companies have done with this capital?  Developed a new feature film?  Launched a marketing campaign?  Acquired critical broadcast rights?  Invested in their core business model?

This money is better spent investing in a specialized software vendor with a proven track record of success in this field.  Jaguar clients implement these solutions for a fraction of these costs.  The differential becomes more obvious when the payroll of an ongoing custom development support team is compared with the cost a support agreement over a five or ten year period.

Jaguar's latest, System 7 Universal Rights Management, builds on 20 years of continuous enhancement to provide the most flexible, cost effective and integrated intellectual property management system in the world.  This success has been achieved through extensive collaboration with hundreds of different organizations that provided invaluable input into all versions along the way.  Throughout its history, Jaguar has stayed true to principles that steer the overall development philosophy.  These design principles highlight why System 7 is in a class by itself.

Cost of Ownership

Ongoing experience with custom development has shown over and over that a flexible software package typically costs up to 90% less to own and operate.  Software which supports multiple clients, outsources support to the vendor, and continues extending functionality, consistently requires fewer human resources to maintain and enhance.  Internally developed solutions usually suffer from endless design rework and user confusion, or worse, produce systems that after a few years are no longer evolving.  They simply lack the benefits of multiple client design and feature input.  Why pay for what already exists at a fraction of the cost?

Feature Richness

System 7's maturity means that virtually all of the customizations that one might ask for in another software package, or with custom development, have already been included as part of standard System 7 capabilities.  Code engineering has been replaced by configuration decisions.  More than 100 standard reports and queries are provided, each with dozens of powerful search and display options. If that's not enough, standard tools such as HTML/ASP pages and Crystal Reports can be used to create self-designed information access.

Continuous Contract Monitoring - CCM

My Jaguar is the latest incarnation of Jaguar's contract monitoring functionality.  Central to CCM is Action Management, an intricate event-driven calendaring and system control database whose impacts reach out to touch virtually every process.  Action Management can best be conceived as a series of preset dominoes, whose effects are felt system-wide, division-wide, asset-wide, contract-wide or project-wide as desired.  The evolution of CCM over the years has resulted in most important System 7 activities becoming types of standardized events rather than unique data records.  Payments, invoices, guarantees, license windows, contract status, revenue recognition, emails, deliveries, fulfillment triggers, releases, approvals and reminders are all events, easily grouped or segregated by department, responsible party, asset, contract, type and countless other criteria.

Complex Rights Management - CRM

Custom Rights Framework is the latest generation of Jaguar's complex rights management solution.  CRM provides an infinitely flexible data structure upon which to build trusted Availability and Collision analyses.  Crucial to CRM's success is working directly from source contract data to conduct every query, report and validation.  Original rights data, interpreted on the fly, eliminates risks that amendments, consolidations or manual intervention will cause unsuspected pollution and fatally flawed results.  CRM records unlimited levels and versions of granted rights per Asset, Territory, Right and Distribution Channel in concert with Language, Exclusivity, Restrictions, Contractual Events and Date Windows, initially for contract intelligence, ultimately for perpetual record keeping.

Contract to Finance Integration - CFI

Transactional Contract Revisions moves Jaguar's contract to finance integration into compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley's stringent requirement for auditability of all material accounting processes.  Fresh transactions are created to record debit memos, credit memos, accrual revenue postings, receivables postings, participations postings, cash reapplication postings and cash revenue postings.  Royalty Guarantee liabilities, Advance consumption, Participations due and Cross-collateralization impact adjustments are captured in contract revision databases as well as in net-effect transactions.  Every transaction, all the way through to General Ledger Export, is tagged with source contract, people/entity, asset, territory, right, division, distribution channel, plus an unlimited number of other pre-defined options (including originating batch codes) for maximum traceability.  Data Warehouse data gathering techniques are facilitated by ironclad consistency of transaction identification.

Full Life Cycle Support

Integration capabilities do not stop with finance integration of contract data.  Jaguar integrates the activities of legal and business affairs departments with sales and finance needs.  No longer do sales and legal need to wonder which amendment is the latest version.  System 7 tracks primary rights, underlying rights, rights limitations, windowing policies, multiple contract versions, acquisition deals and long form terms and conditions.  All of these pieces can be utilized to create multiple versions of long form agreements to help streamline the legal contract development process.

Jaguar software is the only package in the world that provides these unique capabilities.  In short, Jaguar has successfully implemented its solution to support the full intellectual property life cycle (Legal, Business Affairs, Sales, Finance, Accounting, Collections) at a fraction of the cost of custom development to produce these same functions.

Previous Editions

April 2004 Executive Web Queries; Rights Inheritance; Participation Statements
 
March 2004 - Volume 3 Analytical Reports; Contract Receivables
 
March 2004 - Volume 2 Financial Integration; Data Creation; Reference Tables; Data Movement; Posting; Journals; Transaction Tables; History
 
March 2004 Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Legislation; Transactional Contract Accounting
 
October 2003 System 7 Version 1.4 - New Feature: Royalty Definitions; Executive Information for International Operations


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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, Chorion, Cinar, DIC Entertainment, Elsevier Science, 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, a fully-configurable Custom Rights Framework, and Integrated Rights and Royalties Management. System 7 is available in the following software modules: Intranet Portal, Contract Administration, Rights and Restrictions, Workflow Management, Revenue Accounting, Royalties Receivable and Participations Payable.

Further information and a System 7 Buyer's Guide is available at http://www.jaguartc.com/system7.

Jaguar Consulting Inc. 
Pasadena, California 
Lincoln Center, New York
London, United Kingdom

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