MISSING LYNX SYSTEMS, INC.

IBIS

INTRODUCTION

IBIS, the Integrated Business Information System, is a software program designed to provide small to medium sized businesses with a comprehensive set of tools for organizing and managing their information needs. It is designed to provide the power of SAP but at a price that small and medium sized businesses can afford.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

• IBIS, the Integrated Business Information System, is a software program designed to provide small to medium sized businesses with a comprehensive set of tools for organizing and managing their information needs. It is designed to provide the power of SAP but at a price that small and medium sized businesses can afford.

• IBIS’ unique properties make it comprehensive, easy to learn, and superior to programs out on the market today.

• IBIS will adapt to your company.  Your company will not have to perform major reorganization to work with IBIS. 

• IBIS provides a scaleable, secure, platform-independent business operations environment, designed to grow with the needs of the business. IBIS can support a beginning business with a single computer and grow to handle multiple computers on various platforms at multiple sites in different geographic regions. A plug-in architecture allows customers to add custom functions to meet their special needs.

• IBIS is not only platform independent--meaning it will work on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, or Sun operating systems--but platform interoperable as well. A business can use any combination of computer types, while sharing information effortlessly--in real time!

• IBIS operates on the principal that data only needs to be entered once, and is then available across the system forever. No longer will a business owner or manager have to pull a cash register tape at the end of the day and then hand it to a bookkeeper to re-enter the data into another program.

• IBIS gives management a real-time look at the operations of the business, with on-screen and printed reports, on demand or at scheduled intervals. IBIS provides management with the ability to control function and data access by assigning access rights to individual staff or groups.

• IBIS operates on the principle that a business's information is private; it can all be stored on the business's own computers, and doesn't rely on some other company's data server to hold sensitive information and keep it safe.  Unlike Web-portal technologies that leave all of a business's data and software in a stranger's hands, IBIS gives a company all the software it needs and real-time off-site backups that remain under control of the company. If a company wants to use someone else's servers for offsite back up, the product's built-in military grade encryption means that no one can steal your data without your encoding keys. The need to trust anyone else to keep your data secure no longer exists.

• With IBIS's encryption modules, even remote access reporting is secure. IBIS uses advanced encryption technologies, in a modular, plug-in framework, to provide any needed level of security for client and business records, making it ideal for use in medical and legal offices. Only data which is currently needed for use is kept in unencrypted form. All communication between clients and servers is encrypted, as are the contents of the database.

SPECIFIC HIGHLIGHTS

• IBIS handles basic accounting functions, including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, inventory valuation, and basic cash management. It exports data to QuickBooks, Lotus or whatever program your accountant prefers to use. Multi-party billing, customer accounts, both internal and external, are supported. Cardless accounts, using the integrated photo library display functions, allow for high security credit systems.

• IBIS provides shipping and receiving functions, including support for partial shipments, and asset management tools that give support for bar codes, perishables, serial numbered items, bulk and individually packaged items, and purchasing functions, including purchase order entry and shelf-life item tracking, and vendor performance tracking.

• IBIS provides scheduling support for your staff, and appointment management for your clients, as well as a general calendar service. Time-card data collection is provided for basic payroll.

• IBIS’ Contact Manager module enables a business to engage with clients in any part of the world.  It can handle all 240-plus postal codes approved by the United Nations and use 35 personal name formats.  No other software package on the market can duplicate these capabilities.

• IBIS offers customer mailing list maintenance as part of its comprehensive customer database facilities. Multiple addresses for shipping, mailing and billing are included, along with multiple email addresses and telephone and fax numbers. Basic contact management functions are provided, including scheduled calls and follow-ups.

• IBIS is designed for high reliability. Transaction logging and a comprehensive checkpoint / restart capability are provided. Optional distributed database support and automatic off-site backup provide an even greater level of reliability.

• IBIS achieves platform independence and scalability with a Java-based, multi-tiered client-server architecture and an SQL database for data storage. IBIS uses a minimum of system resources, and will run on any computer that can run Java JDK 1.1.8 or greater. It is currently being tested on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS platforms.