Your business will become an e-business. Be prepared for the challenges. business value today and tomorrow. information how and when you need it

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1 we re the bricks behind the clicks Your business will become an e-business. Be prepared for the challenges. e-business is more than a storefront. It s a business. It s no longer enough to merely bolt-on or integrate your front office with your back office environment. In e-business, you have to organize the complex relationships among your customers, suppliers and inventory over the web - the clicks - for maximum efficiency and responsiveness. Every element of planning, operations, manufacturing and financials - the bricks - should be managed within the context of the entire supply chain. And you should plan, track and manage the end-to-end results of every supply chain decision for e-business optimization. e-intelliprise will empower your business by providing the back to front office integration. e-business is global business. Once you take your business over the Internet it s a global business. Global businesses have unique challenges language, currency, taxation, business policies. e-intelliprise maximizes the Internet by personally addressing all of these issues. e-business rules can change in an Internet minute. Time to market equals money. What works for one company may not work for you. What works for one customer may not work for another. So it s critical to be able to change business rules that drive operations, schedules and management. Change them immediately, on-the-fly, without technical constraints or outside consultants. Who knows what the future of the Internet will bring taxation, migration of all your business units to e-business, target marketing. With e-intelliprise, you ll be ready. w Turn your e-vision into business value today and tomorrow w Deliver the power of information how and when you need it w Combine your traditional and e-business channels into a single infrastructure w Create market of one, reach your audience in their own terms w Respond to change immediately with alert driven business intelligence w Develop dynamic web pages for B2B, B2C, and E2B

2 a single solution supports your Materials Management Purchasing Save time and money by streamlining the procurement process Requisition Management Blanket Purchasing Rebate and Pricing Management Approval Routing Inventory Asset Management Lower inventory costs while maximizing control and flexibility Serial and Lot Number Processing Receipt and Shipping Management Replenishment Processing Inspection Financials General Ledger Empower your enterprise with reporting on your financial health Chart of Account Processing Financial Reporting Budgeting Journal Entry Processing Multiple Books Support Accounts Payable Realize administrative costs and resource savings Voucher Entry Processing Procurement Matching Payment Processing Evaluated Receipt Settlement Accounts Receivable Add to your bottom line by managing receivables Credit Management Deduction Tracking Collections Management Cash Receipt Processing Activity Workflow Manager e-intelliprise delivers end-to-end support The power of information delivered how you need it, and when you need it As your e-business develops, you ll want to reach out to traditional business partners, consumers and employees to better meet their unique information needs. e-intelliprise dynamically develops target web pages, creating a marketof-one. And web page content can be dynamically changed by user via business policy tables without technical constraints and costly custom programming. e-intelliprise goes one step further in supporting all e-business models with its ability to deploy these business views over the Internet, intranets or extranets simultaneously from a single solution. The ultimate in flexibility. Future Internet expansion supported by agile architecture At the heart of e-intelliprise, an agile architecture provides the depth and flexibility to support e-business relationships. Today and tomorrow. This open, multidimensional model makes it easy to align business processes with corporate imperatives without custom programming. This means e-intelliprise can adapt to new organizational structures created by mergers, acquisitions, re-engineering efforts or evolving trading partner and supply chain initiatives. And it does it at the speed of e-business. Traditional and e-business channels combined by technical infrastructure As you continue to capitalize on the web for greater business value, it will become more and more apparent that your company needs an all-inclusive solution to meet both your front and back office needs. If you began operations as an e-business entity ( clicks ) or as a traditional business ( bricks ), without an end-to-end e-business solution, your trading partners may soon view your enterprise as disorganized and hard to do business with. The farther down the Internet adoption road you go, the more you ll need a complete one-source infrastructure to empower your e-business vision. American Software provides that infrastructure with e-intelliprise. In fact, you can consider us as the bricks behind the clicks.

3 traditional and e-business needs to create the enterprise without walls global e-business enhanced with market-of-one focus Deploying e-intelliprise over the web automatically expands your marketplace to service customers around the globe. And with the ability to dynamically support a market-of-one multiple currencies and languages and determine different business policies and rules on a trading partner-by-trading partner basis, you have the power to break down international communication barriers. Advanced Business Intelligence driven by alerts What s the most important asset that your company owns? Information details about your trading partners, products, financials, marketplace strategies that worked or didn t. Can your company leverage this information to become more responsive and agile in running your business? The ready-to-use business intelligence of e-intelliprise alerts you to operational efficiencies or deficiencies via the Internet or wireless communication devices. This way, you can gain competitive advantage by responding more effectively to business critical obstacles and opportunities as they occur. There s more. The cornerstone of e-intelliprise business intelligence features pre-loaded data marts with industry standard metrics such as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR). This gives you an immediate framework for business intelligence. Not only that, the alerts, data marts and metrics can be customized to meet every individual s needs within your supply chain. Ultimately, as the bricks behind the clicks, e-intelliprise gives you the power of information and infrastructure to create the enterprise without walls. Distribution Customer Order Management Power your customer acquisition and retention efforts with a dynamic front office. Order Entry and Fulfillment Pricing, Deals and Promotion Tracking and Processing Billing Management Credit Control Processing Agile Architecture Capitalize on the power of e-business with dynamic global and business rules Traditional, Financial and e-business organization structures e-accounts Management Trading Partner Management Currency Management Language Control Security Management Menu and Workflow Management Dynamic Web Page Content Manufacturing Traditional Manufacturing Meet customer expectations with maximized manufacturing efficiency Production Scheduling Resource Planning Route & Work Center Shop Floor Control Flow Manufacturing Drive manufacturing responsiveness and reduce costs Line Design Engineering Change KANBAN Management Method Sheets Demand Smoothing by American Software

4 we re the bricks behind the clicks Turning your e-vision into business value w Create virtual enterprises w Increase agility w Lower operating costs w Expand productivity and global reach w Enhance customer responsiveness w Create dynamic web page content on-the-fly w Reduce time-to-market What s your e-business vision? At American Software, we have the sophisticated solutions to help get you there. NOW. To learn more about e-intelliprise and what it can do to turn your e-vision into business value, look us up at or call today American Software, Inc. All rights reserved. American Software is a registered trademark of American Software, Inc.

5 a single solution supports your traditional and e-business needs Materials Management Purchasing Save time and money by streamlining the procurement process Requisition Management Blanket Purchasing Rebate and Pricing Management Approval Routing Inventory Asset Management Lower inventory costs while maximizing control and flexibility Serial and Lot Number Processing Receipt and Shipping Management Replenishment Processing Inspection Financials General Ledger Empower your enterprise with reporting on your financial health Chart of Account Processing Financial Reporting Budgeting Journal Entry Processing Multiple Books Support Accounts Payable Realize administrative costs and resource savings Voucher Entry Processing Procurement Matching Payment Processing Evaluated Receipt Settlement Accounts Receivable Add to your bottom line by managing receivables Credit Management Deduction Tracking Collections Management Cash Receipt Processing Activity Workflow Manager e-intelliprise delivers end-to-end support to create the enterprise without walls The power of information delivered how you need it, and when you need it As your e-business develops, you ll want to reach out to traditional business partners, consumers and employees to better meet their unique information needs. e-intelliprise dynamically develops target web pages, creating a marketof-one. And web page content can be dynamically changed by user via business policy tables without technical constraints and costly custom programming. e-intelliprise goes one step further in supporting all e-business models with its ability to deploy these business views over the Internet, intranets or extranets simultaneously from a single solution. The ultimate in flexibility. Future Internet expansion supported by agile architecture At the heart of e-intelliprise, an agile architecture provides the depth and flexibility to support e-business relationships. Today and tomorrow. This open, multidimensional model makes it easy to align business processes with corporate imperatives without custom programming. This means e-intelliprise can adapt to new organizational structures created by mergers, acquisitions, re-engineering efforts or evolving trading partner and supply chain initiatives. And it does it at the speed of e-business. Traditional and e-business channels combined by technical infrastructure As you continue to capitalize on the web for greater business value, it will become more and more apparent that your company needs an all-inclusive solution to meet both your front and back office needs. If you began operations as an e-business entity ( clicks ) or as a traditional business ( bricks ), without an end-to-end e-business solution, your trading partners may soon view your enterprise as disorganized and hard to do business with. The farther down the Internet adoption road you go, the more you ll need a complete one-source infrastructure to empower your e-business vision. American Software provides that infrastructure with e-intelliprise. In fact, you can consider us as the bricks behind the clicks. global e-business enhanced with market-of-one focus Deploying e-intelliprise over the web automatically expands your marketplace to service customers around the globe. And with the ability to dynamically support a market-of-one multiple currencies and languages and determine different business policies and rules on a trading partner-by-trading partner basis, you have the power to break down international communication barriers. Advanced Business Intelligence driven by alerts What s the most important asset that your company owns? Information details about your trading partners, products, financials, marketplace strategies that worked or didn t. Can your company leverage this information to become more responsive and agile in running your business? The ready-to-use business intelligence of e-intelliprise alerts you to operational efficiencies or deficiencies via the Internet or wireless communication devices. This way, you can gain competitive advantage by responding more effectively to business critical obstacles and opportunities as they occur. There s more. The cornerstone of e-intelliprise business intelligence features pre-loaded data marts with industry standard metrics such as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR). This gives you an immediate framework for business intelligence. Not only that, the alerts, data marts and metrics can be customized to meet every individual s needs within your supply chain. Ultimately, as the bricks behind the clicks, e-intelliprise gives you the power of information and infrastructure to create the enterprise without walls. by American Software Distribution Customer Order Management Power your customer acquisition and retention efforts with a dynamic front office. Order Entry and Fulfillment Pricing, Deals and Promotion Tracking and Processing Billing Management Credit Control Processing Agile Architecture Capitalize on the power of e-business with dynamic global and business rules Traditional, Financial and e-business organization structures e-accounts Management Trading Partner Management Currency Management Language Control Security Management Menu and Workflow Management Dynamic Web Page Content Manufacturing Traditional Manufacturing Meet customer expectations with maximized manufacturing efficiency Production Scheduling Resource Planning Route & Work Center Shop Floor Control Flow Manufacturing Drive manufacturing responsiveness and reduce costs Line Design Engineering Change KANBAN Management Method Sheets Demand Smoothing