Unlimited Named Users

Who Should Buy An Unlimited License

Organizations with more than 10,000 named users need an unlimited license. Organizations this large are typically very dispersed and may use multiple front-ends, fail-over, redundancy, etc. For example, the primary web farm may be in Atlanta with a European web farm in Scotland. Atlanta’s may be backed up by one in Silicon Valley and Scotland’s may be backed up by one in England. Both primaries would automatically replicate their back-end transactions to the secondary site. Organizations this large may have need for several installations of the Status Reporting Tool in such a scenario. The transaction load suggests that a robust enterprise database be used to accommodate the magnitude of transactions and the need to mine the data.

Benefits

Large organizations may benefit from the Status Reporting Tool in many ways. For example:

• The time required to report out progress to customers can be greatly reduced
  For example, DoD contractors often have to provide a Monthly Status Report (MSR) to the government. By establishing a template in JasperReports, each individual’s status can be reported for use by the government in validating an invoice. This process can lead to less confusion and rejection of invoices by providing details in a timely, organized, consistent manner.
• Annual performance reviews can become much more objective
  For example, the compliance report (see the report screenshots will objectively show how an employee performs in the reasonable task of reporting their work on a regular basis. Employee and management alike can quickly pull up an entire year’s worth of reports and glean the objective accomplishments of the employee against the organization’s expectations.
• Find hidden gems
  Senior Management must be vigilant in their efforts to lead the organization in a positive direction. Often, this calls for quick reaction to changing market influences. The Status Reporting Tool’s diligent effort to document the organization’s efforts across all levels provides Senior Management with information no only on performers but on performance. The insights can lead to process improvement, new processes or new business. For even more flexibility, third-party ad-hoc tools, such as Business Objects can be coupled to the database allowing management to mine those gems! (Note: while the database is under the control of the organization, we strongly recommend adhering to the views of the Status Reporting Tool to ensure private reports stay private.
• Source code
  Unlimited licenses include the full source code for the Status Reporting Tool. See our Enterprise License for full details.

What to Expect

The Status Reporting Tool is built to reside on a scalable architecture; i.e. load balanced front-end web servers and an Oracle back-end. (Note: the Status Reporting Tool has been tested with Oracle 10.2.0.1.) Unlimited licenses come with both the binary version for immediate deployment and the source code. You may make changes to the code base, such as integrating it into your intranet, but you may not resell it. You will receive 30-days of online (i.e. online chat or e-mail) and phone support. You may purchase additional ongoing support separately. Support contracts ensure that you receive all updates in that major version line. Upgrades are priced separately. Installation, Administration and User Guides may be downloaded separately.

What You Need

You will need your own Java Servlet container, such as Tomcat. (Note: as of this time, Tomcat is the only container tested and certified.) You’ll want to keep your data behind your firewall, so an intranet address fire walled from the internet is highly desirable. A virtual private network (VPN) is not required unless you wish to access your Status Reports from outside the company’s firewall. It is entirely possible to run the Status Reporting Tool on the internet (e.g. http://www.yourcompany.com/). We highly recommend that if you do so, you use a separate HTTP listener such as Apache in front of Tomcat and secure it with self-signed certificates at a minimum (i.e. use the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to encrypt all traffic). The reason we suggest Apache is that you can configure it to not respond to the HTTP_TRACE command. As your concurrent user access grows, you may wish to use more than one web server. This is permissible with any license. We highly encourage you to consider, but do not require, a separate server for your database. The use of a separate server allows you to partition it off from the inter/intranet and gives you a little more protection from hackers. Due to the large nature of your organization, you’ll need an experienced database administrator and possibly a web master (or several if you are geographically dispersed).

Recommendations

Large organizations should include onsite consulting as a means of minimizing the disruption to their services. Through onsite consulting, we can work with the experts of the organization (you) to make the Status Reporting Tool capture the essence of your communication needs through our expertise with the tool. Large organizations have a momentum to them and a ingrained culture. While they will learn to use the Status Reporting Tool as if it’s second nature, the initial introduction of the tool will introduce change into the individual’s life. Determining what the Status Reporting Tool will capture will go a long way to determining how disruptive the introduction is. Our consultants can work with you to map the appropriate templates so that your organization within the tool makes administration a breeze.

Additionally, we highly recommend that large organizations purchase annual support contracts. Annual support contracts ensure that you’re kept up-to-date with every update that we produce for that version. For example, if you license v2.0 and we put out 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3, you receive all three updates at no additional cost. We also focus on the business requests of our annual support holders first as we know they’re committed to the process of improving their organization.

To inquire about an unlimited license, please click the “Buy” button below which will open an email form addressed to us. Please provide your contact details and we will respond within 24 hours.