CN101248451A - software for reporting quantities - Google Patents

Abstract

Platform-independent software providing means for automatically interrogating from time to time any database containing quantities (including but not limited to funds) used within a business organization (such as a manager, bank or agent) that shares the services of a financial institution; means for secure communication between the client and the organization, and means for reporting these quantities in a standardized, mutually comparable form. The standardized reports are optionally issued to various downstream service providers, such as accountants, whose analysis is securely transmitted back to the business organization.

Description

software for reporting quantities

technical field

The present invention relates to computer software in an application that reports activity within a group of different client businesses; to a computer that automatically obtains and securely forwards measures of activity (including but not limited to currency) from each business to a financial institution software, and involves computer software that converts these measures of activity into a common format.

Background technique

Many areas in which an invention of this type is needed are apparent.

1. Financial institutions such as banks, finance companies, invoice discounters/traders, agents, asset-based lenders, etc. (referred to herein as "suppliers") may need to be closely monitored, e.g. by reviewing individual records on a daily basis client business organization. For example, an agency business buys customers' liabilities (accounts receivable) and needs to know the accounts in an efficient manner on a daily basis, and assess the risks involved. At this time, all known reports of this type rely on the client's employees to extract the data and then continually prepare and send the report to the financial institution, which is labor-intensive, may be unaffordable within deadlines, and may result in data has been incorrectly entered, or otherwise contained or deleted, accidentally or intentionally, which may injure either party. Analysis by financial institutions is often labor-intensive and time-consuming, making high-speed calculations difficult to achieve, and may always be more than two days behind the actual time.

2. Many hotels (for example) being merged into a chain can continue to use previous software, but the chain owner needs to know daily occupancy, inventory, and financial activity to adjust activities, anticipate the need for changes, and quickly spot inconsistencies Even such as embezzlement of public funds. From the perspective of the owner, these hotels may be located all over the world and may wish to have them report at any time.

3. As a last example, many factories that share common ownership and handle major products (such as dairy products, butter, milk powder, etc.) , breakdowns, environmental or other impacts on plant supply, longer-term developments and financial activity.

Furthermore, different countries have different trade practices, some because of custom or business circumstances, others because of legal requirements. In one country, a transaction may have only one agent, while in another country, a transaction may involve an agent for one group of goods and another agent for another group. Some countries use their own proxies more often than others. For customers, the agent business organization overcomes the debt problem caused by the normal delay in delivery of the payment.

The inventors have recognized the need to conveniently provide standard status reports from any customer to a designated financial service provider in an automated and systematic manner. Human intervention carries the risk of inaccuracy (inadvertently or otherwise), which occurs mainly during local trade times, and is costly and slow, so it is best to minimize human intervention. Transmission of reports should take place over secure channels to prevent industrial espionage. The secure channel can be arranged in a World Wide Web or Internet environment, which is well known to those skilled in the art. Each customer wishes to have the freedom to choose its own computer billing management and similar software (such as products written under any operating system Windows, Macintosh or Linux/Unix). These also reflect hardware choices. There are various versions or updates of any selected software product, and it is said that at least 20% of the bank's customers change their versions in at least any given year. Clearly, the inventive software at both the client and institutional ends of the secure channel should be able to handle these differences so that correct operation can be maintained in any work environment.

Preferably, the process of transmitting the report to the supplier includes the steps of acquiring incoming data from each of a plurality of independent sources and reconfiguring it into a form compatible with the institution's computers, preferably prior to transmission. Processing that converts incoming data into a human-readable format for the benefit of the supplier or its downstream partners is also contemplated.

B2B software is well known, as is software for agency business establishments. A search for "B2B software factoring" on the "Yahoo small business" website returns 4 US companies. The inventors are familiar with and have had contacts with these companies and understand that none of them offer the devices encompassed by the present invention.

Ruby et al. describe in US2005/0060284 a "management and reporting system and method for a number of different types of databases". This invention is in many respects the opposite of the present invention since Ruby brings many traditional databases into a standard (eg XML) format through a converter and then allows remote users to read the data from a mainframe type computer. Unlike Ruby et al.'s example, the present invention puts the remote user's data in their "home" residence, where continuous normal application in the course of commerce is performed in order to provide agency services for submitted goods (but not limited thereto). Updates in real time and uses an implanted, custom extractor to transfer only relevant material to a remote monitoring computer. Data may be returned to the remote user from the monitoring computer or by arrangement from a downstream service provider.

Contents of the invention

It is an object of the present invention to provide a means for reporting recent changes to data held by a customer within a computer system to an agreed provider of products or services related to said data, or at least to provide the public with a useful choice.

A first main aspect of the present invention provides quantity reporting and management software comprising: a server software suite maintained at a service provider or management site, capable of exchanging data with at least one of a plurality of compatible client software devices, each The compatible client software devices are installed within existing client software maintained at the customer sites, wherein: each compatible client software device installed in the corresponding customer's existing computer system includes: event-driven means enabling the client software to becomes active without human intervention upon occurrence; said compatible client software is written to select and extract data representing at least one measurable parameter of interest from within the respective client's existing computer or computer system, and thereby create a report associated with the respective client, the report describing to the service provider the current state of the at least one parameter of interest; the compatible client software being able to send the report via a secure channel to compatible server software maintained within the service provider computer , the server software is designed to receive reports from the or each respective client and convert the reports into a standard form so that the service provider can evaluate the reports and thus not degrade the report's performance due to modification of the report content precision.

Preferably, the software used to extract data and create reports is written so that it runs automatically - at usually predetermined times of day or night - so that the reports involve a minimal load on the client.

In a first related aspect, the present invention provides event-driven means driven by at least one variable preselected from the range of: a specified time of day, a minimum value of a measurable parameter of interest within a specified time interval, The maximum value of a measurable parameter of interest over a specified time interval, the specified number of changes to a measurable parameter of interest since a previous event; or a single large change to a measurable parameter of interest.

In a second related aspect, the present invention provides quantitative reporting and management software wherein the representation of parameters of interest within reports created can be predetermined to include one or more of the following: measurable The current total number of parameters, a statistical description of the parameter of interest measurable during the defined time period, or all instances of the parameter of interest measurable during the defined time period, whereby, in the latter case, the service provides The merchant has access to all information about measurable parameters of interest.

Preferably, the software of the present invention is adapted to process information collected from multiple client computers or computer systems, and maintain separate data in the supplier's computer, whereby said supplier is presented with a corresponding plurality of reports.

In a third related aspect, the or each user's report is further reduced by the report presentation software of the present invention into a summary and/or graphical table which can be forwarded from a downstream service provider to the supplier.

Preferably, the software for extracting data and creating reports is written in a platform independent language so that one version of the software is sufficient for all clients.

Optionally, the software used to present the reports running in the vendor's software is written in a platform independent language so that one version of the software is sufficient for all customers.

Preferably, said at least one parameter of interest describes at least one selected financial asset of said client maintained at a client site at the moment said event-driven means determines that an event has occurred Represented within the existing client software for and select from a range including: invoices, credit notes, cash, journal and accounts receivable.

Optionally, said at least one parameter of interest describes at least one selected financial asset of said client at a time at which said event-driven means determines that an event has occurred, said at least one selected financial asset of said client being located at a client site Existing customer software on hold is represented and selected from a range including: man-hours used, raw materials, jobs incoming, intermediate products, final products on hold, final products shipped, energy consumption, scrap generated.

In a second main aspect, the present invention provides the quantity reporting and management software previously described in this section, wherein compatible client software maintained at any one of the client sites is accessible through a secure channel and modified on behalf of the service provider, In order to change, and/or accommodate updates, revisions or changes to Client Software, predetermined variables including: the nature of the initiating event, the description of the or each parameter of interest for creating and sending control of reporting.

In a third main aspect, the present invention provides the quantity reporting and management software previously described in this section, wherein a downstream provider having a structure for servicing one or more customers whose software connects to the service provider has access to One or more reports for one or more clients; said reports have attributes that include: (a) automatic collection and transformation, (b) a standardized presentation relevant to the respective client, presented to the service provider A current status of said at least one parameter of interest is described; thus downstream suppliers are able to assess the status of said customer with respect to said at least one parameter of interest.

Preferably, the data flow in the secure channel between the compatible client software, the compatible server software and the downstream provider is bi-directional, so that data can be returned to the existing client software through the compatible client software.

In a fourth main aspect, the present invention provides a collection of interrelated software capable of being maintained in a customer's computer or computer system, capable of being initiated into activity at an internally determined time, and continuing to extract data at an internally determined time and by This creates a report describing the customer's assets to the supplier, including but not limited to currency and accounts receivable, and sends the report over a secure channel to the report presentation software held in the supplier's computer, In said supplier's computer, customer assets become represented in standard form by complementary software so that the supplier has up-to-date information about the customer and can make management decisions concerning asset-related services provided by the supplier to the customer .

Preferably, the software used to extract data and create reports is written so that it will operate in the context of installation on a client's computer or computer system via a secure channel.

Preferably, the software for extracting data and creating reports is written in versions capable of taking data held as files under one of the various possible data processing/accounting software packages available, and The data is reduced to a common format so that the software presents reports for all clients in a common format and can be compared across clients.

Description of drawings

The description of the invention to be provided herein is given purely by way of example and should not be construed in any way as limiting the scope and extent of the invention.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating data flow.

Figure 2 shows an extension of Figure 1 that includes multiple end users also reaching downstream service providers.

Detailed ways

The present invention illustrates the use of computers and computer software to repeatedly capture and process data obtained from a client's computer in near real-time, where it would be difficult (though not impossible) to use manual data extraction whenever required , encoding and transmitting, and conversely and optionally, receiving processed data, decoding said data, and returning the data in clear form to the consumer's computer. It should be noted that although the program is related to brokering establishments, the principles of the present invention can be extended to overcome various management issues that arise when there is a need to integrate, monitor, or manage businesses operating at various sites, wherein all Many or all of the sites described above are individually unique, for example, in the various software they use.

For example, consider a number of hotels that have been acquired by a chain. Each hotel can continue to use the previous software and its own management system, but the chain owner/general manager still needs to know things like occupancy, inventory and financial activity on a daily basis to coordinate the services provided and anticipate the need for changes , And quickly found contradictions and even such as embezzlement of public funds. These hotels may be located all over the world and one may wish to have them report at any time.

Financial institutions (referred to herein as "suppliers"), such as banks, finance companies, incoming retailers or traders, brokers, asset-based lenders, etc., may need to closely monitor customers, for example by reviewing individual records on a daily basis. The inventors involved an agent. For example, an agency business buys a customer's debt (accounts receivable) and will need to know the customer's debt on a daily basis in an efficient manner in order to make timely purchases and assess the risks involved. Banks that have invested in commercial institutions need to monitor their risks. At this point, all known reports of this type rely on the client's employees to extract the data and then continually prepare and send the report to the financial institution, which is labor-intensive, may be unaffordable within deadlines, and may result in data has been incorrectly entered, or otherwise contained or deleted, accidentally or intentionally, which may injure either party. The analysis after receiving by financial institutions is usually labor-intensive and time-consuming, so that the purpose of high-speed calculation is difficult to achieve, and it may always be more than two days behind the actual time. As the world economy becomes more connected through the World Wide Web, high-speed computing becomes more relevant to all elements.

Example 1

See FIG. 2 , which is a broader view of the typical layout shown in FIG. 1 . In FIG. 2, a series of customers each using a proxy business (for example) is shown as 100A...100F, and the different shading used by each customer marks the different type or version of the database or database used by each customer. Accounting software. The "Hermes" software (see below) added to each client's computer system is represented within each client by a small box labeled 104/105 (see client 100A). This software may be accessed by the programming provider (120) from time to time in order to, for example, change the content of the uploaded data, to change the events that trigger the upload, or to deal with different types of database software used by a particular customer. Bi-directional communication is indicated schematically in FIG. 2 by using pairs of lines and directional arrows as at 107 . At 130 is indicated a server that provides individual financial services to all clients. Two downstream service providers (such as may be audit firms or other financial advisors) are shown as 140A and 140B.

In Figure 1, rectangle 100 (CL) represents a customer's computer or computer system (for the purposes of this specification, a networked or otherwise grouped The programmatic service invoked, which will be used with reference to the foregoing. 130(SU) represents a service provider's computer or computer system and 140(DS) represents an optional downstream provider's computer or computer system. 107, 121 and 143 refer to secure communication channels, possibly temporary links over the World Wide Web protected by suitably strong encryption; examples of them are described below.

Modified device in customer's computer

Although those skilled in the art will appreciate that currently available sets of software tools refer to the methods described herein, alternative software tools for the software tools described herein may accomplish the same task.

The customer's existing accounting or database software 103 now tends to be packages such as "SageACCPAK" or "MYOB" (both are trademarks and product names). These are generally available as specific versions or updates for small to medium sized businesses in New Zealand or elsewhere. The software 103 may be considered a database manager for this purpose, maintaining a database 102 that accepts descriptive input 101 from a keyboard or by automated means in a conventional manner, to be quantitatively monitored as described elsewhere in this specification customary related products. The quantity may represent a unit of currency, or describe a class, or a commodity of manufacture, or other material. Most accounting or database packages intentionally provide or expose interfaces for use by other programs in the form of (usually) Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interfaces; others include Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and COM. The widespread use of these types of interfaces should mean that they will be preserved over time. Another option is a Structured Query Language (SQL) interface.

The software of the present invention requires the installation of one or more extractors 104 written for this purpose in a programming language to create ODBC and JDBC (eg Open and Java respectively) modules in the client's computer 100 . These extractors are driven by a small boot or launcher 105, also part of the present invention, which will initiate the desired extraction activity. The or each customer will agree to install equipment (104, 105) in their systems as part of the contractual relationship, referred to herein as "Hermes customer" software. The task of part 105 is to wake up at a specified time and utilize the (usually existing) communication software module 106 over a secure link 107 to reach a remote server, referred to herein as a "Hermes server" held at a supplier computer 130 . It is considered preferable to enable the "Hermes client" to initiate any data transfer to the supplier's computer based on e.g. An instruction to an external computer that makes a request. Also, the convenience of the automatic nature of the software is that no human intervention is required. Assuming a late night download is requested, this would involve an additional charge for those events involved in actually preparing a manual version of the report. Avoiding manual intervention and associated costs facilitates the "down migration" of services provided by the present invention to smaller businesses. Saved a lot of time. Also, in the provision of services (eg brokering large numbers of relatively small accounts), operating costs (eg labor) can exhaust profit margins if not controlled.

Reports can be made using a dial-up modem rather than using a less secure broadband connection that is always connected. In some installations it is more convenient to submit the daily report later in the evening after all data entry is complete, but in other installations the reporting can be done at any time. Some commercial establishments are open continuously. In some cases, reports may be filed immediately after a specified number or volume of transactions have occurred. Frequent reporting and timely indication of any discrepancies reduces the risk to the bank or agent or other institution. Regular use of firewalls and encryption will be maintained.

At any instance of contact from module 106 in the client computer, Hermes server 130 or program source 120 may also download data to the Hermes client in block 100 . Program source data may contain, for example, changes to match new kinds or versions of software, updated database software, application of bug fixes, or data used to collect a range of data or to collect data differently than previously collected instruction. This process avoids physical access to modify the software. The source of these changes is here distinguished as a separate module 120—a program source—although preferably may be a service provided only from within the supplier's computer system 130—as provided in FIG. changes to maintain security. Otherwise, hackers may try to install their software in the place of legitimate boot modules.

When in use, the appropriate extractor 104 will search one or more databases 102 including, for example, those holding "accounts receivable" information or inventory of items. The particular database that is the subject of reporting will depend on the type of financial services provided by the provider and the configuration of the customer database. Agents (as an application of the invention) tend to be most relevant where there is a relatively large number of transactions, the characteristics of the agents do not change much from day to day. Extractor 104 will extract data from the customer database and transform the requested fields for manipulation, encoding and transmission. For example, only those records that have been changed since the previous extraction will be extracted for forwarding over the secure channel 107 to the supplier's computer 130 . A secure channel can be obtained by using Internet security variants such as Secure HTTP (https...) or simply using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol. Passwords are available. One form of secure encoding is to use public/private key algorithms such as RSA (Rivest Shamir, etc.) or PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy"), which also verify the identity of the sender. In some cases, physical media can be delivered, but there is substantial risk of data loss or theft as well as an inherent delay that negates some of the advantages of the present invention.

Because contact is initiated (preferably) only from the customer's computer, the customer's system and the information carried therein are protected from unauthorized access (eg by industrial spies trying to ascertain the customer's financial status). Of course, there are always other security risks, mostly outside the scope of this invention, such as software that could be sent from a hacker to reside in the customer's computer, for example in a "cookie" to report any situation, or a simple phone keystroke Data can be returned to be decoded by an idle hacker or thief. Most customers already have an active risk-checking policy and install adequate security measures, such as firewalls.

Once securely contacted with the supplier computer 130 by the communication software 131 over a secure channel, the extractor 104 sends the selected data from the customer's existing account software to the software in the supplier computer (shown as block 132- 135). Block 132 maintains initial downloads obtained from identified clients. Individual data is manipulated 133 to normalize the information received according to the vendor's existing software or procedures, and then used for existing and/or enhanced reporting purposes. Possibly, the supplier runs a ledger 134 that simulates the customer's financial primary and secondary ledgers (e.g., accounts receivable, inventory, bank accounts, etc.) Any differences between the maintained and updated ledgers. This is useful when, for example, a bank wishes to maintain close monitoring of its security. Module 135 generally refers to a human-optimized display, which can take the form of a graph or printout, which can highlight and/or analyze differences between existing activity and past or expected activity. The expected activity may be a statistically significant average of some or all other customer activities.

Third parties, referred to herein as "downstream providers" (140 in Figure 1, 140A and 140B in Figure 2), should also have access to their data or abstracts, if desired. Typical third-party functions are as financial advisors or bookkeeping services, which can extend to transaction-by-transaction reconciliation of cash flows. Again, regardless of the actual client software, the advantages of the present invention, such as convenience, precision and standardization, are beneficial to third parties. In block 140 (FIG. 1), block 141 is the communication module, which is responsible for encoding or decoding information, and block 142 broadly represents all third-party functions that will apply to a particular customer's needs. One type of display tile 142 is referred to as a "dashboard" which pertains to the ability to present an overall image in a simple and similar form, usually with graphics and/or hypertext links to enable details to be displayed. The dashboard can be created in module 130 or generated in module 140 - in which case the third party provider has better control over the presentation.

All software is preferably platform independent. One way to achieve this is to use JAVA code, which runs on at least a Linux, Unix, Macintosh or Windows environment. This feature means that as much as possible there is no need to access or modify or customize the software to be installed in the customer's computer or the supplier's computer. One advantage is that neither party needs to acquire and collaborate with the specified software package when entering an arrangement to use the software. Another advantage is that the code forming part of the invention can be kept secret from potential hackers or copiers, since the source code does not need to be revealed to the local installer. However, standard obfuscation codes can also be included. The third advantage is to reduce the traffic of the site.

In addition, the present invention also achieves package independence (mainly in 104) so that no matter which software (e.g. MYOB) or version or configuration is used by the client, the information extracted from the client computer is converted to standard before display in block 135 form, or possibly, if all customers are (for example) members of a cooperative group (such as a hotel chain), then it is possible to compare with other customer activities.

transform

Rather than focusing only on billing and cash movement related applications, the invention can also be applied to real-time reporting of other quantifiable items. For example, where there are many factories, companies or other business establishments that have a common area of business and share at least some common ownership, but may have different internal procedures and use different software, their management needs to know the output of each day , inventories, sub-ledgers, environmental or other impacts on factory supplies, longer-term trends, and financial issues.

The nightly data transfer process in this regard at a 24-hour repetition rate can be repeated at any time, ie, especially during peak trading hours, or if the characteristics of the business establishment change, or if more frequent reporting is required. Alternatively, the process can be done less frequently (eg, weekly or monthly), or summary reports can be interspersed with less frequent full reports.

The same principle applies to any other measurable quantity that is available in a computer environment that is frequently monitored by an entity that needs to know the quantity of the measurable quantity. Examples include:

Power utilization companies can use the present invention to monitor power usage of large customers and can monitor multiple versions of power usage separately.

Automobile manufacturers can use the present invention to monitor the status of a component supplier's manufacturing chain to determine if "just in time" production/supply is now required. In this case, information about the remaining inventory of a specific part is returned to the part supplier so that the rate of manufacture can be adjusted.

Accountants and other business advisors can monitor clients' financial performance in real time and recommend changes and/or improvements.

Reporting from branch offices to the head office can be done efficiently and without cost or time.

Industrial applicability and advantages

The present invention has the advantage of allowing management or financial service providers to have up-to-date and accurate information on (usually financial) consumer activity by a transparent means without human intervention or labor costs (which may fall into the "overtime" category). information. In providing services such as agency, operating costs (eg labor) can eat up profit margins if not controlled. And, if adverse trends are not noticed early enough and appropriate action is taken, profit margins can be lost.

Therefore, it is an advantage to be able to compare the performance of one client with the collective statistics from similar clients.

The present invention provides a device that requires only minimal intervention with existing software and data, and can be used in any general purpose operating environment.

Finally, it should be understood that the scope of the inventions described and/or illustrated herein is not limited to the specific embodiments. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that various modifications, additions, known equivalents and substitutions are possible without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention as set forth in the following claims.

Claims (9)

1, a kind of quantity report and management software, comprise: in the server software group of service provider or the maintenance of admin site place, can with at least one swap data in a plurality of compatible client software equipment, each compatible client software equipment is installed in existing customer's software that customer rs site keeps, and it is characterized in that:

A) each the compatible client software equipment that is installed in the existing computer system of respective client comprises: the event-driven device, can make client software when scheduled event takes place, need not manual intervention and become movable;

B) described compatible client software is write, in the active computer of respective client or computer system, to select and to extract the data of representing at least one measurable parameters of interest, and create the report relevant with respective client thus, the current state of described at least one parameters of interest is described in described report to the service provider;

C) described compatible client software can send to report the compliant server software that is kept in service provider's computing machine via escape way, described server software is designed to: receive report and report is converted to canonical form from described respective client or each respective client, thereby the service provider can assessment report, and therefore can not reduce the accuracy of report owing to the modification of report content.

2, quantity report as claimed in claim 1 and management software, it is characterized in that described event-driven device is driven by at least one variable of selecting in advance from following scope: one day fixed time, measurable parameters of interest be the minimum value at interval, the measurable parameters of interest predetermined number of times of the maximal value at interval, the change measurable parameters of interest done from previous incident at the appointed time at the appointed time; Or the big change of single that measurable parameters of interest is done.

3, quantity as claimed in claim 2 report and management software is characterized in that, can be determined in advance as of comprising in following or multinomial to the expression of parameters of interest in the report of being created:

A) the current total quantity of measurable parameters of interest,

B) descriptive statistics of measurable parameters of interest in the time period of definition, or

C) all examples of measurable parameters of interest in the time period of definition, thus under latter event, the service provider has the visit about all information of measurable parameters of interest.

4, quantity report as claimed in claim 3 and management software, it is characterized in that, determine the moment that incident has taken place at described event-driven device, described at least one parameters of interest is described at least one selected financial asset of described client, and the selected financial asset of at least one of described client is expressed in existing customer's software that customer rs site kept and selects from the scope that comprises following item: invoice, credit instruments, cash, ledger and accounts receivable.

5, quantity report as claimed in claim 3 and management software, it is characterized in that, determine the moment that incident has taken place at described event-driven device, described at least one parameters of interest is described at least one selected financial asset of described client, and the selected financial asset of at least one of described client is expressed in existing customer's software that the customer rs site place keeps and selects from the scope that comprises following item: the waste material of the final products of the operation of the man-hour of use, starting material, arrival, intermediate product, maintenance, the final products that transport, energy consumption, generation.

6, as described quantity report of above-mentioned any one claim and management software, it is characterized in that, can visit by escape way at the compatible client software that any one customer rs site place keeps, and represent the service provider and be modified, so that change predetermined variable, and/or adapting to renewal, revision or change to client software, described predetermined variable comprises: the character of initiated event, to creating and send the control that the report of describing described parameters of interest or each parameters of interest is carried out.

7, as described quantity report of above-mentioned any one claim and management software, it is characterized in that having one or more client that its software is connected to the service provider provides the downstream supplier of the structure of service can visit one or more report for one or more client; Described report has the attribute that comprises following item: (a) collect automatically and change, (b) relevant with respective client standardization presents, and this presents current state from described at least one parameters of interest to the service provider that describe; Thereby downstream supplier can assess described client's state at described at least one parameters of interest.

8, quantity report as claimed in claim 7 and management software, be further characterized in that, data stream in the escape way between compatible client software, compliant server software and downstream supplier is two-way, thereby data can be returned to described existing customer's software by described compatible client software.

9, quantity report as claimed in claim 7 and management software, be further characterized in that, report of the present invention presents software and is suitable for: handle from the information of a plurality of client computers or computer system collection, and be maintained in supplier's the interior mask data of computing machine, thereby described supplier has been presented corresponding a plurality of report.

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