Jaguar News - April 1999

• Licensing 99 Free Exhibit Passes
• Releases 5.5/5.03 Official Release Coming Soon!
• New FAQ Entries
• People on the Move

Licensing 99 Free Exhibit Passes

8-10 June will mark the fourth consecutive year of Jaguar's participation as an exhibitor in Licensing 99 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. Eagle Merchandise Licensing System's all new Internet Royalty Entry function will be on display at Booth 1455 in the center of the main hall. This exciting new function eliminates the drudgery and complications of duplicate royalty data entry forever. If you are interested in visiting our booth and would like free passes to the exhibit area, contact Sylvia Rodriguez at srodriguez@jaguartc.com or 626.796.1955 x204

EAGLE enables licensors to earn more money from the success of their properties. More complex and aggressive revenue sharing plans can be structured and automatically enforced. EAGLE pays for itself by providing powerful royalty statement validation tools which efficiently trap licensee calculation errors to maximize collections.

The full range of contract administration, sales management, royalty collection and accounting activities for intellectual property management are integrated within a user-friendly Microsoft Windows environment. EAGLE works with ACE Revenue Accounting to form a comprehensive licensing financial system. In addition, WRAP-UP Materials Tracking is available to monitor, store, loan out, give away and locate product samples and key art work to further enhance control of licensing activities.

Two of the world's largest licensors, the NBA and Children's Television Workshop anchor the rapidly expanding multinational universe of Eagle system users.

Release 5.5/5.03 Official Release Coming Soon!

This dual release marks the official ending of one era (16-bit Windows) and the dawn of another (32-bit Windows). Release 5.5 is 100% backward data and function compatible with Release 5.03, including a number of new and exciting features shared by both systems. Release 5.03 was originally known as 5.02.20, but the scope of this release and the organizational benefits of keeping the detail version numbers synchronized between Release 5.5 and 5.03 caused a change in plans. In addition, Release 5.5 adds a number of features that were not possible with Release 5.03 technology: seven new executive queries, two new graphical financial drill down queries, enhanced security and a slick new alternative sales contract entry.

This is anticipated to be the last major release in the 5.0x series, with both releases anticipated for the month of May. All Jaguar 5.0x clients will be encouraged to adopt Release 5.5 by the end of August. A free copy of the PIPELINE Executive Information System will be included for all clients who upgrade during this period. PIPELINE formed the core of the presentation at the SCOREBOARD Release 5.5 seminar held 31 March in Pasadena.

The most outstanding feature of this new release (shared by 5.5 and 5.03) is all new Manual Invoices functionality originally created for New Line Cinema. The following has been extracted from Specification Document #3312 as an overview to this modification:

Business Process Overview

A modification has been requested to enhance the manual Invoices area of ACE Revenue Accounting. The goal is to be able to generate several different types of manually created invoices, some attached to the sales contracts, with varying degrees of detail (i.e. title, territory, right). Overages, materials, audit, legal, and miscellaneous are among the desired invoice types. These invoices must be entered with any currency. Debit memos and credit memos must also be entered with the same capabilities as normal invoices. The Cash Receipts and Unapplied Cash entry programs must be modified to allow cash applications to these new types of invoices.

In addition to modifying the Invoice Form, several reports in ACE Revenue Accounting will need to be adapted to reflect this new style of invoice. These including Invoice Journal, Invoice History, Cash Receipts Journal, Cash by Title Journal, Allocated Cash Journal, Customer Statements, Unapplied Cash Status, Cash Receipts Log, and Cash Summary. Note: The A/R Aging and Cash Flow reports will also have to be changed but will be addressed in separate specification documents as other issues must also be addressed at the same time.

Release 5.5/5.03 is the most thoroughly tested software release in Jaguar Consulting's history. In addition to recognizing Carol Guillebeaux' hard working quality assurance team, special kudos to New Line Cinema and the NBA for their dedication to excellence. Many of the new Release 5.5 features are highlighted in the current SCOREBOARD and EAGLE sample report books, which are available upon request.

New FAQ Entries

Frequently Asked Questions is expanding at an accelerating rate! We appreciate the many suggestions that have been offered by our clients for enhancing this important portion of the Support Section of www.jaguartc.com. If you have not visited this area in the past few weeks, we suggest that now is a good time to renew your acquaintance. Three of the most recent highlights include:

1. Collision Test Rules A nicely laid out table that shows exactly how contract collision testing evaluates Exclusive, Exclusive Warning Only, Co-exclusive and Non-exclusive rights conveyances for conflicts.

2. Fixing dates in reports exported to Excel Shows how to make the best use of date information automatically exported to an Excel data format using the standard tools provided by Excel.

3. Pack & Reindex from a Batch File (including Scheduling) Provides instruction on how to make this important system maintenance function an automatic part of your nightly tape back up function.

People on the Move

Wendy Gilson, who worked her way up at Jaguar from sales assistant to service coordinator to consultant has decided that her next career move will be full time motherhood. Little Danielle has no idea how lucky she is! Wendy will be missed by many clients and by her friends here at Jaguar. Her can-do attitude and willingness to jump in wherever she could help have been much appreciated by everyone. Wendy promises regular visits to show us how she and Danielle are doing. Best of luck with your new adventure!