SEMINAR – INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY SYSTEMS – NYC 30 Oct.
TOPICS
- Best practices in Intellectual
Property System Evaluation
- Introduction to System 7
Universal Rights Management
- Contract Administration and
Financial Management Integration ROI
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- PUBLISHERS:
Magazines, Books, Newspapers
- ENTERTAINMENT:
Film, Television, Cable, Live
Events, Sports
- CONSUMER PRODUCTS:
Automotive, Toys, Apparel,
Animation, Video Games
- Contract Administrators, Financial Managers,
Information Systems Project Managers, Consultants
PRESENTED BY
- Mark Kindy,Managing
Director
BearingPoint Consulting
(formerly KPMG Consulting), Media and Entertainment Practice
- Adam Lefkowitz,System
Implementation Manager
Jaguar Consulting, Inc.,
Software Developer
TIME AND PLACE
9:30 AM to Noon, Wednesday 30 October
2002
Registration opens at 9:00 AM, Refreshments served
Entertainment Alliance Technology
Conference (www.etaexpo.com)
Tribeca Grand Hotel
2 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10013
212.519.6600
Jaguar Consulting (www.jaguartc.com),
the world's leading provider of Intellectual Property Systems and the
innovation-focused BearingPoint Media and Entertainment Practice (www.bearingpoint.com)
are combining forces with the Entertainment Technology Alliance Conference
being held at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York City the morning of 30
October to present an exceptional seminar designed to look beneath the
covers at the realities and opportunities of Intellectual Property
Administration and Finance Systems. Jaguar success stories include NBA,
NBC, MGM, National Geographic Society, Hallmark Entertainment, Sesame
Workshop and many other leaders in intellectual property licensing.
BearingPoint (www.bearingpoint.com) will direct their attention to presenting
research derived from their years of experience in evaluating the fit and
functionality of intellectual property systems for all types of contract
administration and royalty management needs. Their extensive experience in
system evaluations and selections for the entertainment industry, publishers
of all kinds and consumer product licensing giants will be condensed into a
highly practical review of best practices in this area. Handouts of
presented materials will be provided to give added depth to the knowledge
transfer.
Jaguar Consulting will share the information necessary
to put together an effective case for the acquisition or upgrade of
intellectual property system functionality. Specific opportunities for
increased revenues, decreased administrative overhead and accelerated cash
flow will be explored. In addition, a demonstration of System 7 Universal
Rights Management, the world's only true client/server-web interface
contract rights and royalties management system will be presented in detail.
New functionality such as integrated Workflow Management, designed to
streamline product quality assurance, contract approvals and many other
business relationship driven tasks will be one of the highlights.
In addition, Jaguar and Intel will be presenting
demonstrations at the Entertainment Technology Alliance of the phenomenal
33% acceleration of response times achieved through optimization of System
7 for the Pentium 4 and Xeon Processors during all three days of the
conference: Wednesday 30 October through Friday 1 November.
About the Speakers
 Mark
R. Kindy
Managing Director, BearingPoint Consulting, Inc.
Mark Kindy is a Managing Director in the Media &
Entertainment Practice of BearingPoint Consulting. He has over fifteen years
of information management experience in many industries including
communications, media and entertainment, oil and gas, specialty chemicals,
healthcare, insurance, construction, mining and technology. His in-depth
involvement with industry leaders such as Viacom, News Corp.
and other major sports leagues, digital entertainment pioneers and content
developers in the selection and implementation of contract rights management
and digital asset management systems places him a unique position to provide
the insights that commonly make the difference between success and failure
for these projects.
 Adam
Lefkowitz
Systems Implementation Manager, Jaguar Consulting,
Inc.
Prior to joining Jaguar, Adam was responsible for a
record-breaking implementation of the Jaguar system at NBA Consumer
Products. A licensing system managing over $3 billion in annual retail sales
was put into full operation just six months after initial installation. Adam
then managed the mission critical operation of one of the world's largest
consumer products licensing systems for nearly five years before leaving the
NBA to join Jaguar as Senior Consultant and Systems Implementation Manager.
In addition to Consumer Products, Adam also supervised the Jaguar
implementation of the International Television, Stock Footage and Premium
Promotions departments to a grand total of more than 100 users in 13 offices
spread out over 11 countries around the world.
Adam is currently Project Manager for Jaguar at MGM
Consumer Products and Lifetime Television.
About System 7
With exceptional database configurability, XML
integration and Web accessibility, System 7 reaches far beyond the back
office to enable creative, legal, sales and finance executives all over the
world to instantly understand their business from any perspective. System 7
delivers:
Intelligent Contract Rights
Management for the Intellectual Property Enterprise
Rights, Royalties
and Receivables - Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents, Permissions
Television, Music,
Books, Magazines, Advertising, Photos, Agencies, Manufacturing
Film, Toys,
Software, Apparel, Sports, Franchises, Bio-Technology, Electronics
System 7 Universal Rights Management represents
17 years of industry leading experience in intellectual property contract
administration systems. System 7 integrates finance, rights, royalties,
participations and contracts into a single unified workflow that makes
departmental isolation a thing of the past. Celebrated industry leaders such
as NBC, NBA, Sesame Workshop, Warner Bros., HIT Entertainment, Hallmark
Entertainment and MGM have built an infrastructure of mission critical
business units around Jaguar systems. System 7 brings a new standard of
flexibility and accuracy to the field of legally protected assets and
contractual business relationships.
For far too long, the giants of industry have relied
on Word and Excel to anchor the operation of departments charged with
managing billions of dollars in assets. The era of amateur-style
disorganization is drawing to a close. Stockholders, business partners and
customers are no longer willing to tolerate business processes that are
inefficient, irresponsible or disruptive to their expectations for profits
and service. Auditors now stipulate that all financial activities within
the corporation must have a fully documented transactional history to
receive approval to be included in public financial statements. System 7
provides complete internal and external operational integration, with 100%
auditable transaction records at every step.
System 7 brings a brilliant intelligence and awareness
to formerly impenetrable operations. Exhaustive automated analysis of every
piece of information recorded throughout the system brings clarity and
confidence to users and managers alike. Every entry is correlated. Every
detail is verified and cross-checked. Every revision is posted. Every
conflict is exposed. Every process is documented. Every right is managed to
maximum value.
Rights Management starts with a strong database
that accommodates the infinite variations in assets, territories, rights,
distribution channels, dates and exclusivities that define what is possible
and, what is trouble. Conflict checking validates that all agreements
recorded in System 7 are compatible with present rights ownership and
previous contractual commitments. Availabilities analysis identifies all
unexploited licensing gaps to ensure that ignorance is not an expensive
lesson.
Contract Administration anchors important
business relationships of all types. Suppliers, customers, affiliates and
colleagues all depend upon timely and accurate execution of the stipulations
buried in hundreds, thousands or millions of agreements. System 7 is both an
abstraction tool and a sophisticated document assembly system capable of
creating original agreements ready for signature. The system calendar drives
contract fulfillment with a relentless series of reminders, deadlines,
contingencies and decision points. System 7 integrates event-driven
calendaring into every window and every screen to make linking expected
dates with related descriptive text and financial information as convenient
and automatic as possible.
Workflow Management takes calendaring to a new
level of flexibility and shared responsibility. Approval processes of all
kinds are easily mapped and linked among all involved parties. Interactions
with external and internal partners are facilitated by automated email
generation and secure web interfaces. Rejection looping and notification put
control of the process directly into the hands of the decision makers
themselves.
Revenue Accounting combines Accounts
Receivable, Budgeting and Corporate Ledger Export into an exceptional
intellectual property-specific financial processing tool. Simultaneous cash
and accrual revenue recognition, designable deferred income posting rules,
contract driven and contingent invoicing, scalable drilldown budgeting and
contract component controlled Aging and Cash Flow Projections, make System 7
unique in the world today.
Participations Payable assembles contractual
terms, revenue flows, expense deductions and account history into a coherent
story for presentation to the providers of source patents, copyrights and
performances that are entitled to a share in the earnings from ongoing
activities. Flexible formatting features enable managers to design
presentation documents that are both comprehensive and comprehendible.
Royalties Receivable provides a detailed
transactional stream of performance and revenue reporting from
sub-distributors and licensees. Validation of reporting calculations,
automatic billing of minimum commitment shortfalls, dynamic licensee royalty
statement translation and unlimited currency conversion options are
included. A controlled web interface gives licensees and sales
representatives the opportunity to continually enter updated royalty
estimates and actuals from anywhere in the world.
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