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  • Eqos Collaborator
    Eqos Collaborator™ is the technology foundation from which Eqos creates, deploys, and manages sophisticated process-centric applications over the web. Currently supporting thousands of users around the globe, Collaborator is the common platform that manages corporate and supplier data, drives cross-organizational processes, and enables decision makers to proactively manage lines of business.

    Key components of the Collaborator Platform include:

    Web Interface
    Collaborator's web interface provides secure process and data collaboration across the globe through a single, consistent user interface. While presenting standard user features, Collaborator also provides the flexibility to host additional user controls and interfaces to ensure industry specific functionality can easily be supported and benefit from the standard security, workflow and audit features

    Key Benefits Include:
    • Secure global access to centralized data
    • Standard, consistent user interface
    • Support for additional industry specific features

    Dashboards and Reporting
    Visual reporting tools and analytics are essential to help decision makers such as retail buyers and merchants, and insurance claims fulfillment managers to monitor their portfolios and identify problems quickly. Eqos delivers predefined role-based dashboards and a reporting framework that can be tailored to meet specific customer requirements.

    Key Benefits Include:
    • Helps to prioritize the most important tasks, enabling users to make more informed decisions.
    • Relevant information is easily accessible with 'to-do' lists and graphical navigation enabling direct access to items requiring attention.
    • Decreases the reliance on the IT organization to create new reports

    Critical Path Management
    Technology solutions should help to streamline operations and enable decision makers to proactively manage their business processes. Eqos leverages standard project task structures into its critical path management, enabling customers to automate and standardize best practices across the business.

    Key Benefits Include:
    • Proactively manages processes to deadlines
    • Eliminates spreadsheets and manually intensive processes
    • Automatically escalates issues to management

    Application Builder
    The ability to easily build and deploy web based applications is critical to being flexible. Built on a proven technology platform, Eqos Application Builder enables users to define the data and security models, business and process rules, and user interfaces through simple dialogs rather than complex programming.

    Key Benefits Include:
    • Rapid delivery is possible by enabling business analysts to complete web applications in simple dialogs with no need for complex coding
    • Simplified web application design with each Collaborator application built around one business object and the process surrounding that object.
    • Operation across distributed teams through a server-based model and data repository readily deployed across a wide user community with simple 'browser only' infrastructure requirements.

    Data Integration
    Collaborator provides a standard data interface and XML schema to allow flexible data integration and extraction in every system implementation. External web services utilize the interface to handle large data volumes in many of our customer sites on a real-time basis.

    Key Benefits Include:
    • Standard simple XML schema
    • Same security and rules model as the User Interface
    • Standard data audit trail
    • Ability to trigger workflow, alerts and further integration events

    Excel Integration
    Eqos has embedded Microsoft Excel technologies and protocols into its solutions to enable its customers to work more closely with their suppliers, agents, and factories in remote areas or those that have difficulty connecting with the internet. Important scenarios have been preconfigured, for example effective with the 5.1 release, buyers and suppliers are able to view, respond and negotiate RFQs off-line via Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and mobile devices.

    Key Benefits Include:
    • Ability to reach new sources of supply; remote or internet challenged suppliers
    • Familiar format with which to share information and work collaboratively
    • Enables off-line working when internet connection is not available

    Collaborator Architecture
    Eqos hosts, supports, and scales mission critical applications globally for some of the world's largest retailers and insurance companies.

    Collaborator components that enable this include:

    Application and Data Services that authenticate and authorize users; validate data and maintain detail audit trails; establish business rules and workflow; and enable collaboration across supplier networks.

    Administration, Messaging, and Interfaces provide the capabilities to support users and supplier communities, preferences, and permissions; manage application configuration and upgrades; leverage web services;

    Key Benefits Include:
    • Simple server deployment enabled through application repository in Collaborator, rather than as executable programs.
    • Easy trading partner access via standard interfaces with best practice security measures, latest application updates, and no trading partner software installations.
    • Ability to extend standard applications through additional scripting, enabling complex calculations and interaction with components of other systems.