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***Cost Containment***Proven ROI***Unprecedented Value

Will you increasingly be required to communicate in a more efficient manner to obtain collaborative electronic commerce with your trading partners?  Will you remain under pressure to focus more on core competencies and achieve better results with fewer resources?  We can arrange complimentary Webcasts to analyze your opportunity to dramatically improve supply-chain efficiency.

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**UCCnet: 

The centerpiece of EXTOL’s UCCnet offerings is the EXTOL UCCnet Integrator.  This product is a customizable and extensible application for aggregating, maintaining, and synchronizing trade item data. It includes a machine-to-machine interface to the UCCnet GLOBALregistry, along with a collection of predefined synchronization processes that automate the communication of item data and responses with GLOBALregistry.  EXTOL's UCCnet solution is implemented using EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI), a powerful, J2EE-based integration broker. EBI complements the open platform offered by UCCnet by implementing a standards-based, platform-independent environment for model-driven integration.  EBI provides both a platform for EXTOL UCCnet Integrator and a toolkit for customizing and extending the application to suit unique customer requirements. Beyond its role in UCCnet integration, EBI can be used to solve a wide range of internal (A2A) and external (B2B) integration problems.

** EDI:

  Although advanced in capabilities, the EXTOL Integrator is simple to install and easy to use.  It's EDI the way it was meant to be: fast, easy, and a true complement to collaborative electronic commerce.  The software delivers a range of features that make it the top-rated system on the market.  It offers complete communication, translation, and document management facilities.  And provides tremendous flexibility in organizing and retrieving data, extensive auditing options, and simultaneous high-volume job processing.  The EXTOL Integrator is the only EDI package with multi-tasking capability. Explore this opportunity to learn how you can reduce your company's EDI costs, minimize implementation time for each trading partner and eliminate the need for trading partner-specific custom programming.  How?  With EXTOL software's inherent features such as advanced auto-mapping, drag-and-drop mapping, secure user access to EDI data -- in plain English, analysis reports and graphs, automatic re-transmit, and a native migration path to name a few.


**Enterprise Management Software:

  VAI’s S2K Enterprise Management Software is uniquely positioned to provide wholesale distribution, manufacturing and retail industries with an affordable, end-to-end integrated solution that will improve core business practices and integrate the advanced technologies you need to compete in today’s market.  Designed for the mid-range market, S2K is in use in over 700 companies worldwide.   S2K by VAI -- fully integrated and offers an exceptional price performance including, a one time license fee (no upgrade charges), no mandatory renewal fees and includes source code to name a few. The dynamic offering includes a completely integrated e-business application, wireless warehouse management, sales force automation, customer relationship management and EDI integration. Cost containment through exceptional Total Cost of Ownership.  

 

**Transportation Management System:  

Varsity Logistics has a proven ROI.  Their customers have eliminated thousands of dollars in carrier interface maintenance expense, gained access to real-time shipping information for immediate response to shipment status inquiries and improved productivity by eliminating manual bills of lading.  Varsity services virtually all distribution and manufacturing industries.  Varsity Logistics is used at over one thousand distribution sites across North America to ensure the economical shipment of as few as 50 packages a day, to over 100,000 daily packages at large distribution centers.  Varsity's parcel solution automates every step of the small package shipping process--from order entry all the way through to shipment track and trace and report creation. It seamlessly integrates with legacy, ERP, and Order Entry systems running on the iSeries through standard interfaces maintained by Varsity.  Varsity is interfaced with most major iSeries ERP vendors.  Varsity's freight solution automates the complicated tasks of load tendering, LTL rating, shipment planning, carrier selection, mode selection, shipment documentation and confirmation, and even freight audit and payment.


**NGS Business Intelligence:   

New Generation Software (NGS) New Generation Software (NGS) business intelligence system provides customers with a cost-effective solution that offers managers and business analysts the multi-dimensional capabilities required for strategic planning; end-users a flexible and easy-to-learn data access environment; IS professionals power, centralized control and optimal field and record level security; and your company the pathway to increased ROI. The integrated modules of NGS-IQ address the ease-of-use and functional requirements of the full range of enterprise users by supporting secure DB2 access from Windows, Web-browser, and 5250 environments where desired.  NGS-IQ empowers your users by allowing them to select the records they need at run-time, thereby eliminating the need to revise numerous queries. Your users can then download results to their favorite Windows applications, such as Excel or Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets, Access tables, Word documents or NGS-IQ's OLAP module. Internet capabilities permit authorized users to access your entire library of NGS-IQ queries from remote locations. Users can also output data as HTML text for viewing through most popular Web browser applications.

**InfoManager Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse:  

A Data Warehouse is a consolidated view of a company’s key financial, customer, product, and performance data. A Data Warehouse provides a tool that allows executives to focus their efforts on just those issues that require attention. Can you graphically view which reps sell the most profitable products to the most profitable customers or can you from graphical views monitor your overall performance in time to take remedial action? InfoManager delivers a graphical view of how each segment of your business is doing, relative to the key indicators you have set for their performance. A click of a mouse on a key indicator graphic drills down to underlying issues, enabling an Executive to bring laser like focus to managing their business segment.  The InfoManager product suite includes all the needed elements to build an integrated data warehouse/business intelligence solution from your operational data.  The integration is done without programming.  Since InfoManager is an application and not a development tool, your organization does not have to employ programmers to implement the solution.


**Electronic Forms and Automated Fax:   

Quadrant Software globally empowers the iSeries 400 and Windows enterprise with a suite of Electronic Document Distribution (EDD) solutions that transform bland, inefficiently handled documents into custom business forms, intelligently transmitted via print, fax or email. It’s a whole new level of productivity from the company that soars with imagination - Quadrant Software. By integrating electronic forms, automated fax and email into your iSeries 400 and/or local area network you can centrally manage and track the flow of mission-critical documents to and from your business. Powerful in scope, but modular in design, these solutions can stand alone or work as part of a total EDD initiative that increases employee efficiency, streamlines document handling, and produces superior-quality documents while eliminating costly pre-printed forms.

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