System 7
Preview Highlights
On Friday, 28 April, Jaguar's 32 seat
Training Room was packed with 40 attendees for the first official
unveiling of System 7 Universal Rights
Management. What is all of the fuss about?
The best way to find out is to visit our
brand new System 7 Preview slide show on Jaguar's website. Simply press http://www.jaguartc.com/s7promo
and you will be magically transported to a quick presentation that will
tell you far more than any amount of writing here could hope to
accomplish. Additionally, on the website under NEWS, the April Jaguar
News features a write up on the goals and features of System 7 as well.
Many thanks to Dan
Hickok, Vice President New Technology, for his eloquent
presentation of the fabulous opportunity that System 7 presents for the
creators and distributors of intellectual property of all kinds to
revolutionize the way they do business.
FAME Fun
Many thanks to the fine folks at FAME in
Entertainment for giving Jaguar the opportunity to publicly present its
unique real world experiences relating to New Media Rights and
Royalties. A lively crowd of 75 entertainment financial and
administrative professionals managed to get together at the ungodly hour
of 8:00 AM for a breakfast meeting at the lovely Hollywood Roosevelt
Hotel.
This issue is just now getting serious
attention from the people who sell and administer licensing contracts
within the film and television industry. Industry leading Jaguar clients
such as Atom Films and Discovery Communications are setting new
standards that deserve the attention of the entire industry.
Jaguar would particularly like to thank Tom
Rochefort, Dan Taay and David
Belson for their support and inspiration in putting this
special event together. Jaguar has been an active member of FAME for
over 10 years. We look forward to helping out again next year!
Content
World Conference and Exposition 17-19 May
Acquisition, Creation,
Management, Distribution: The Digital Media Revolution is Now.
When it comes to information and the
Internet, everything’s in fast forward. From content creation, to
asset management, to outsourcing, integration, acquisition and
distribution…It’s a new industry moving at hyper speed,
revolutionizing how we conduct business. For content professionals like
you, that means challenges in finding specific information about the
newest products, services, and best practices that serve the digital
media community.
That’s where Content World comes in. It’s
a conference designed especially for you, offering 3 days of highly
focused, in-depth sessions, presentations, and case studies. Content
World has assembled industry leaders and luminaries to help content
professionals like you learn about the latest and greatest technology
innovations and proven solutions. In the exposition, you’ll get to
visit face-to-face with more than 50 leading-edge companies—many are
putting new technologies and techniques on the map. Simply put, it’s
an opportunity you can’t find anywhere else. And it’s all
conveniently under one roof. So if you have a serious stake in the
digital media revolution, register for Content World now at http://www.contentworld.com.
The above comes straight off of the
mailer for Content World Conference and Exposition (you know that Jaguar
News would never write anything with that many contractions in it!).
Many of our friends and business associates are key presenters and
exhibitors at this Palo Alto, California summit conference. As one of
Content Magazine’s, Content 500 Industry
Leaders (see March 2000 Jaguar News at http://www.jaguartc.com),
Jaguar will be attending the conference in force! We have decided to do
a public service to help our clients and subscribers make sure that it
is on your calendar as well.
Release
5.51.02 Available
From Bill Gibbs, Senior Vice President
Client Services:
I am pleased to announce that the
upgrade to our latest release, 5.51.02, is now on the website and
available for downloading. It contains 18
different enhancements. This upgrade was originally created
in March and has gone through over six weeks of quality assurance
testing here at Jaguar. 5.51.02 is available at: http://www.jaguartc.com/support/.
It can be installed using the standard upgrade wizard, UPGRADE.EXE.
New, as of this release, there are now
TWO reports that document the contents of each upgrade.
- There is the new,
Summary Change Report, which gives a one-sentence
description for each enhancement or program fix.
- There is also the Detailed
Change Report, which is the same one that we have been
providing for several years.
Both reports are shown on the website
under Software Release Updates and System Changes Reports. Either or
both are available for your use. As always feel free to contact us with
any questions about specific items or the upgrade process in general.
Thanks for your support. We look forward to your feedback.
Royalty
Management Benefits
Video Distribution, Merchandise Licensing
Every so often, it is important to step
back and take the time to remind ourselves why integrated contract
administration and accounting systems are so valuable to the companies
that invest in them. The huge data flows and complex contractual
arrangements of Royalty Management clients such as Children’s
Television Workshop and the NBA
make many of the following benefits into “must have” requirements
for their organizational survival.
The following is extracted from the
Software section of http://www.jaguartc.com.
The complete version can be found under a sunburst-style button labeled
“Benefits” on the Jaguar Office module summary page.
Revenue
- Enable the effective administration of
more complex and profitable agreements (sales tiers,
cross-collateralization)
- Increase royalty collections by
instantly identifying licensee calculation errors (common with sales
tiers).
- Track and collect post-contract
execution guarantee add-ons.
- Distribution channels can be used to
differentiate royalty rate by mass marketers, mail order, specialty
store and every other conceivable distribution channel that merits
distinction.
Sales Management
- Strengthen negotiating positions
through access to detailed historical performance information.
- Product managers will have consistent
quarterly and (potentially) monthly accurate financial updates on
licensee performance. The monthly approach will alert product
managers that certain licensees are not meeting their projections,
allowing time to make changes to their marketing and product
development activities.
- Performance and trend analysis
including sales by licensee, product category, property and
territory to help recreate successful licensing programs and design
aggressive campaigns to address periods of weak sales.
- Receive management reports on timely
basis.
- Product managers have instantaneous
access to licensee financial, product and category information.
Administration
- Automate tracking of contract begin
and end dates, renewal and other contractual options.
- Improve management productivity by
enabling subordinates to administrate effectively.
- Automatically generate Royalty
Delinquent Notices.
- Earnings to date and advance/guarantee
position on a contract available at any time.
- Concentrate on the analytical aspect
of agent/licensee profit or loss statements, not data gathering.
Budgeting
- Royalty budgeting on the group and
property level.
- Budget, Budget Revisions and Budget to
Actual /Variance reports.
- Reduce the variance in budget vs.
actual numbers with accurate system generated data
Accounting
- Track licensee sales projections to
produce more accurate budgets.
- Eliminate time consuming manual GL
coding for royalties and other revenues.
- Automatically generate revenue G/L
entries for export to corporate accounting system.
- Know the financial impact of foreign
currency contracts.
Baby News
Tommy and Elisabete Belt
(Jaguar)
Ryan Gray Belt arrived 4/18 at 9:04 PM
He weighed in at 5 pounds 13 ounces, 20 inches long.
(Not much hair, but what there is is light brown.)
Mother and baby doing well. This is their first.
Susan and Sharif Tanamli (CTW)
William Joseph Tanamli born 11 April at
5:58 PM.
5 pounds 14 ounces
Mother and baby are doing fine. Dad is hanging in there too! This is
their first.
John and Diane Sprouse (PrimeAdvantage.com)
Cole Ryan Sprouse, 19", 6 lbs. 9
oz., 2 February, 3:00 PM
Their second baby.
Erick and Christine
Feitshans (Winter Films)
Gavin Wells
Feitshans 20", 8 lbs. 10 oz. 27 Apr 2000, 1:01 pm
Greg Stadler (Jaguar)
reports that his latest (of 7!) Grace has 4 teeth and is learning to
crawl.
About Jaguar News
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Jaguar Consulting Inc.
Pasadena, California
Lincoln Center, New York
For additional information: Visit http://www.jaguartc.com
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