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Features And Benefits - A Summary
Web-browser application
Blueprint OneWorld is, and has been specifically developed, as a web application.
When using it, there is no need to load any other application at the desktop,
other than a standard Windows word-processor, if you want to edit documents
that the system has automatically produced. Users that wish to further
enhance and amend the automatically or manually created group structures
will also need Microsoft Visio installed on their machine. Users who wish
to just view charts can do this utilizing a freely downloadable Visio
viewer.
Multi-platform accessibility
Whilst Blueprint OneWorld can truly be called a web product, its
database of information (which can be SQL or Oracle), Blueprint DataServer,
can also be accessed utilizing 'thick' client wide and local area networks,
using our Windows Desktop application, Blueprint 2000. Access to the Blueprint
DataServer is also available via Terminal Server and Citrix Server technologies.
Potential users should not, however, confuse this with the fact that
Blueprint OneWorld is a standalone Web product in its own right.
24/7
accessibility
Because Blueprint OneWorld is a Web application that resides on
your Web Server, if your Web Server is available and running, Blueprint
OneWorld becomes available on a 24/7 basis from any global location that
has access to your corporate Intranet
If a Web-browser and access to your company corporate Intranet or the Internet is available to you, then subject to security control, Blueprint OneWorld and its data will be as well.
Reduced cost of ownership - faster
return on investment
As organizations grow and the need for recording corporate compliance
information in different jurisdictions increases, so the need for different
locally-based applications, and their associated costs, increase. Traditional
middleware applications have to be installed on each machine, with few
being able to exchange and record data between different jurisdictions.
This can prove costly and, with different datasets in different locations,
can require considerable additional work to consolidate all of the information
for viewing on a group-wide basis.
As a Web-based application, Blueprint OneWorld removes these hurdles. The program is installed once, and only once, on your Web Server. Its data is then available to all of your users globally on a 24/7 basis.
Updates to the software need also only be installed on the server to
then be instantly available to all of your users on a global 24/7 basis.
Reduced costs from
One software installation on your server, with no need to install on every users machine, will result in significant savings in not having to visit every desktop, in every location
Consolidation of different desktop applications, in different jurisdictions, to one central application
Consolidation of different datasets, to one on your global Web Server, saves time, in reducing the need to manually consolidate information for group-wide reporting
Blueprint OneWorld = Centralized Control = Lower
Cost of Ownership
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Pending transactions and
approvals Pending transactional processing was another 'first' made available by ICSA Software to the company secretarial software market-place, over 10 years ago. These processes have now been further enhanced in our Web application, to offer unrivalled levels of process control, and knowledge management. After performing a transaction using a wizard, users can choose whether to update the record immediately or hold the transaction as a pending event. If a transaction is saved as a pending event and, assuming that user has the required security rights, they are able to:
The approach used by Blueprint OneWorld in relation to pending transactions is unique, and adopted for most transactions, ensuring true workflow management and approval. |
Validation checks
Yet again, a 'first' over 10 years ago for ICSA Software, and a
unique facility. Validation checks ensure that the user has entered all
of the required information for the transaction they are performing. These
checks are pre-configured on a per-jurisdiction basis. The end-user can
also configure validation checks.
Jurisdictional-based forms and
document production
Blueprint OneWorld automatically produces the statutory paperwork
as the user performs a transaction. Document templates are configurable
on a per-jurisdiction basis. Documentation output can be to a standard
word-processor, an HTML document or an Adobe Acrobat document. Once produced,
documents are assigned a unique number, and can also be assigned to a
user of the system. They can be emailed and can also have a reminder date
attached to them. These reminders dates will be assigned to the users
task list and can also trigger emails to the assigned user, to inform
them of the task that needs to be completed, in association with the document.
For the added security, tracking and traceability of documents, all Blueprint
OneWorld documents are stored within our own database. However, there
are also solutions for linking document production in Blueprint OneWorld
with a number of third party document management systems.
Compliance and task-list items
Blueprint OneWorld incorporates an extensive compliance task list
to ensure that users complete both corporate related and user-defined
tasks in a timely manner. Task list items can be added in a number of
ways.
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As jurisdictional specific compliance dates that are automatically calculated by the system, based on supplied templates that the system supervisors can amend
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As manual entries added by a user for themselves, or subject to access rights, added, but assigned to you by another user of the system
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As automatic entries based on a pending transaction within the system
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As an automatic or manual entry associated with a document or series of documents within the system
Task-list items can also be linked to users email (MAPI compliant) and
Microsoft Outlook© diary systems.
Proactive compliance reporting
Email notification
Similar systems to Blueprint OneWorld have compliance reporting facilities. These tend to be based on the user running a report or, perhaps, logging into the system to ensure notification of impending tasks (many quite likely to be associated with a statutory filing). But what if the user does not enter the system? Dates and key tasks can be missed completely until it's too late!
Blueprint OneWorld deals with compliance and task list items differently. The system will notify a user that a task list item has been assigned to, proactively and automatically, regardless of where they are, using your own email system.
Jurisdictional-based dynamic
user interface
The Blueprint jurisdictional-driven Dynamic User Interface [DUI]
will configure its data views to support the jurisdiction of the company
you are looking at. There is no need to log in and out of different datasets
for each of the jurisdictions you are recording information for. As you
enter a company, the system will recognize its jurisdiction and then present
the fields for the information that is pertinent to the country or state.
The DUI also provides the foundation for different language requirements
and screen customization by the end-user.
Jurisdictional specific document
templates
Document production in Blueprint OneWorld is automatic. As you
perform a transaction that requires a form, minute or resolution, the
system will automatically complete and produce the required paperwork.
The templates used for this document production are all fully configurable
by the end-user (assuming they have the correct security rights). The
clever part here is that these templates, which include reporting templates,
are amended using your standard Windows word-processor. There is no need
for additional 3rd party document assembly software. There is no requirement
to have to learn a new application, in order to be able to realistically
use the document production facilities of our software. You simply use
the word-processor that you are already familiar with.
| Co-form production Blueprint OneWorld comes supplied with an extensive library of global forms. In addition to these forms being automatically completed by the system as you perform a transaction, users can manually complete forms on-screen. Forms have been fully approved by the relevant regulatory authorities and as part of our support services to you; we will ensure that the system always comes supplied with the latest versions of these documents. |
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In addition to the core entity recording and management functionality offered by our system, Blueprint OneWorld comes supplied with a fully configurable (on a per-jurisdictional basis) Data Library. The Data Library allows you to record any other information you require concerning your entities. Users can add their own menu items and fields. Unlimited user-defined data object templates can be added to the system. Unlimited data objects can be added to any of Blueprints OneWorld entities. Blueprint OneWorld data libraries come pre-configured with sections to record the following:
This list is not exhaustive, the Data Library also has the unique
feature of the end user being able to easily define unlimited new
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Group Structure Charts can also be produced as Microsoft Visio charts for more complex editing functionality a user may wish to apply to the charts produced. Our experience of being the first to produce automatic group charts in our desktop product, has given us the knowledge to ensure users are able to have their charts in the format they require. Charts can also include different colors and shapes for different entities. Users are also able to email charts produced. Blueprint OneWorld's charting functionally will also allow users to produce charts based on many different selection criteria including legal and user-defined (e.g. tax) structures.
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Tree-Walker chart view
Blueprint OneWorld also has a unique "Tree-Walker" feature
that allows the user to "walk up and down" through a structure,
maintaining, at all times, a view of the ultimate parent.
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