Welcome to the ApplTop Informer

Spring 2006

Welcome to the Spring 2006 edition of the ApplTop Informer newsletters, we hope you find the content of interest and we are always pleased to hear any feedback you may have regarding its content. To send feedback or to make suggestions for future content then please email to newsletter@appltop.com.

Contents

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Introducing AFOS – ApplTop Free & Open Software
We are very pleased to announce that we are making our entire product suite available under our new ApplTop Free & Open Software (AFOS) License. This basically means that all of our products are available for anyone to download and use for any almost any purpose completely free or charge. 

Under the new AFOS License, any organisation that is an “end user” of Oracle E-Business Suite (AFOS excludes competitors, service companies...etc) can download ApplTop Applications from the ApplTop website (www.appltop.com) and install and use all of our products without charge. Furthermore, 99% of our source code is also available so you can help expand and improve our products (or maybe learn from them) by being part of the ApplTop Community Enhancement (ACE) program.

AFOS FAQ
Q. Why is ApplTop making its products Free and Open?
A. Very simple, our goal is to aid and assist as many Oracle E-Business Suite end-users as possible and we feel the best way of achieving this goal is to make our software free and make the source code open.

Q. Does “Free” really mean “No Cost”?
A. Yes; for “limited” licenses we no longer charge anything for the software itself but instead only charge for product support (if required). Free means that you are free to use the software in almost any way you want, it also means you are free to re-distribute the software to other Oracle E-Business Suite end-users (strictly without charge of any kind) and you are free to improve our products if you are involved in the ApplTop Community Enhancement (ACE) program.

Q. What is the “Limited” license mentioned above?
A. The license limits you to usage only. The license does not give you ownership of the software or any of its source code. ApplTop Solutions retains total ownership of the software and all of the source code.  You are not permitted to resell any part of the software or charge for usage of any kind. You are not permitted to re-brand any of the software in anyway whatsoever.

Q. Do you still offer products under an evaluation license?
A. Not as such. The evaluation license is no longer required since any business that wants to evaluate can download, install and use the products for as long as is required under the AFOS license; this effectively means that we still offer evaluations but now they can last for as long as is required rather than being restricted to a few weeks. However, if an evaluation is required where the licensing requirements are higher than what AFOS provides then we will still provide time limited evaluation licenses.

Q. Will ApplTop products continue to be Free and Open forever?
A. Probably, the new AFOS license is available until 31^st December 2006. It’s success will determine if we continue with the AFOS license beyond this period.

For more information regarding ApplTop Free & Open please contact us at info@appltop.com.

Introducing Support Subscriptions
Support is available on an per organization annual subscription basis and comes in two flavours, Standard and Premium.

For more information regarding solution support, subscription options and pricing please see visit www.appltop.com.

Please contact us at info@appltop.com for more information about Subscription licensing.

Introducing ApplTop Applications
Our entire product range is now available as a single installation and is now collectively known as ApplTop Applications. We have merged all of our products into a single solution for a number of reasons, the main reasons being... 

• Simplified installation and management of products for clients and ApplTop

• Simplified product licensing

• More effective product support and development

• Product integration is now much easier and more effective

• Simplified product delivery

The current version of ApplTop Applications for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i contains the following products...

• CS*Form/CS*Rapport v7.0.1

• CS*Accelerate v5.0.0

• CS*Secure v3.0.0

• CS*Audit v3.0.0

• CS*Comply v2.0.0

• CS*Enquire v2.0.0

To help simplify solution licensing, you can now license products in solution based suites, see below for more information.

ApplTop Productivity Suite
The ApplTop Productivity Suite consists of a number of productivity tools to help you make the most out of Oracle E-Business Suite. The suite includes... 

• CS*Form or CS*Rapport

• CS*Accelerate

• CS*Enquire

ApplTop Compliance Suite
The ApplTop Compliance Suite consists of a number of compliance tools to help you make the most out of Oracle E-Business Suite. The suite includes... 

• CS*Comply

• CS*Secure

• CS*Audit

• CS*Accelerate

New Product Announcement - CS*Comply
Simple, Integrated Segregation of Duties Solution - CS*Comply is an easy to use integrated suite of tools designed specifically for the Oracle E-Business Suite that enables you to quickly and easily define your SOD conflict matrix at both responsibility and function level and then implement that matrix to automatically prevent, monitor and report on any SOD conflicts within the system.

Features at a glance...

• SOD controls at function level

• SOD controls at responsibility level

• Interactive, on-screen violation reporting

• Automatic violation prevention

• SOD Access Requests

• Fully integrated with Oracle E-Business Suite

• Very easy to use

Selected Screenshots

Defining SOD Matrix

Viewing conflicts

Viewing conflicts

Viewing conflicts

SOD Access Request System
 

SOD Access Request System

SOD Overview

CS*Comply is a cost effective solution that can help you ensure that SOD violations are a thing of the past.

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.appltop.com/aslcomply.php.

New Product Announcement - CS*Enquire
We are pleased to announce the release of CS*Enquire, a data enquiry tool created specifically for the Oracle E-Business Suite.

CS*Enquire is built directly into the Oracle E-Business Suite with a native 11i look and feel to make users feel right at home. The tool has been designed to alleviate some of the issues encountered when deploying a query tool to the user base, the biggest of which is often the issue of security and deployment. The more traditional, "Windows" based tools are indeed very powerful but they can present a number of security risks in that they generally allow their users to query and modify any data within the database, thus relegating the use of such tools to only highly privileged users such as developers and DBA's. CS*Enquire allows you to deploy the tool directly from within the core Oracle E-Business Suite and enables you to determine who can do what to what data at schema level.

CS*Enquire is very easy to use and is packed with features that make it the data enquiry tool of choice for the Oracle E-Business Suite. It is licensed on a per user basis and is very cost effective when compared to other query tools.

Features at a glance...

• Easy, integrated enquiry with 11i interface

• Secure enquiry

• Create, store, organize and share queries

• Format and auto summarize the results

• Progressively drill into the results

• Parameter driven queries

• Simple database browser

Selected Screenshots

Entering a query

User management

Query management

Formatted output

Progressive drill-down

Database browser

For more information, please visit us online at http://www.appltop.com/aslenquire.php.

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Further Information
For more information about ApplTop Solutions, our products and services please visit us on the web at www.appltop.com.

For general enquiries please email info@appltop.com.

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