AMIC Research, Inc. -- Emmi, Scalability Options

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I want to increase business, but...

My current system is causing the loss of current clients.

My service offerings are weak.

An IPAs service offerings are judged on the ability to issue and manage instrument types based upon ever
changing market. In addition to future-proof issuance type capabilities, Emmi offers the following customer centric
service capabilities:

•	The ability to define new book or physical instrument types. See: "Tool for Growth"
•	Trouble free system access using a standard browser. See: "Improved User Experience"
•	The ability to easily enter trades and manage the affirmation/conformation process. See: "Operational Efficiency"
•	The ability to integrate with third-party transactions systems. See: "Integration Options"
•	A full featured custom reporting package. See: "Reporting Power"
•	The ability to select and export data to external systems. See: "Reporting Power" and "Integration Options"
•	The ability to define issuers in terms of Parent/Child entities (corporate/subsidiary or "synthetic") providing the issuer with enhanced reporting and managemet capabilities. See: "Reporting Power" and "Tool for Growth"
•	The ability to allow external users to self-manage the creation of users and assignment of user rights. See: "Secure Environment" and "Tool for Growth"

My current system can’t handle additional business.

The associated human resources cost are prohibitive.

IPA business activities can easily be thought of as being "hight-touch," human interaction and oversight is traditionally
involved with each stage of the process.

Emmi minimizes human operations costs by the intelligent automating of processes and integration of systems.

•	Entry of transactional details can be automated by integration with external systems such as PIMS, CanDeal and STN Money Markets. See: "Operational Efficiency" and "Integration Options"
•	The flow of processes from transactional input to issuance can largely be automated minimizing human intervention and transactional risk. See: "Operational Efficiency" and "Risk Management"
•	Interaction between the IPA group and related business groups such as billing and money transfer can be automated or streamlined. See: "Operational Efficiency" and "Reporting Power"

My current system can’t address issuance requirements outside my geographic area.

Emmi supports multiple operational centers, multiple depositories and any number of note calculation methodologies.

•	Multiple operational calendars are supported. See: "Tool for Growth"
•	Each operational center can have its own note printing operation, vault and inventory system. See: "Tool for Growth"
•	Multi currency issuance and operations are supported allowing both multiple currencies within a transaction and the use of a single currency that is different from the operational center's base currency. See: "Tool for Growth"
•	Multi-currency reporting is supported, as is the ability to "roll-up" multi-currency transactions into a base currency general ledger. See: "Tool for Growth" and "Reporting Power"
•	Various calculation methods are supported, such as calculations based on varying day count basis (Days In Month, Days In Year), etc. See: "Tool for Growth"

An increase of business will probably increase my operational and transactional risk.

Emmi was designed specifically to reduce transactional, operational and compliance risk. Key features that address these issues include:

•	The ability to assign specific rights and roles to users. For instance, one user may enter transactions and another user can approve transactions. See: "Secure Environment "
•	The ability to apply rules to user rights. For example, a user that can both enter transactions and approve transactions cannot self-approve transactions that they initiated. See: "Secure Environment "
•	The ability to create “named funds” and enforce “program limits and bounds.” See: "Risk Management "
•	The ability to share rules governing named funds across multiple issuer entities and programs. See: "Risk Management "
•	The ability to mix automated parametric rules governing transactions with events requiring manual oversight. See: "Operational Efficiency" and "Risk Management "
•	The ability to specify rules governing a change of system parameters. For example, a rule might state that a change of an account number used to automatically transfer funds must have second party approval. See: "Operational Efficiency" and "Risk Management "
•	Visibility into users’ online status and the ability to change users rights, manage passwords and change user’s online status – all in real time. See: "Secure Environment "
•	A comprehensive audit trail for all system setup parameters and all phases of a transaction’s life span from entry to final movement of money at redemption. See: "Risk Management" and "Reporting Power "

I want to Reduce Costs but:

The hardware maintenance costs for my existing older technology system are escalating.

Emmi runs on a standard Windows Server platform. A typical configuration would include two servers, an
application server (Microsoft IIS) and a database server (Microsoft SQL Server).

Because there are no special hardware requirements, Emmi can become part of your organization's standard
plans for infrastructure maintenance and upgrades.

Depending on your organization, additional cost savings may be realized by having Emmi hosted at
one of our approved hosting centers.

	See: "Product Overview "
	See: "Hosting Options "

My application management costs are escalating because the human resource base that can manage my
system’s older technology is becoming scarce.

My issuance system won’t integrate with other systems and the cost of doing the work “by hand” is
becoming prohibitive.

Emmi includes an interface that will allow the administrator to define any additional fields needed to transfer data
from Emmi to an external system - the creation of account numbers used by an external system, for example.
Also included is the ability to define the triggers and processes needed to automate the procedure. The movement
of data can be accomplished as a batch procedure, or it can be accomplished in real time.

In addition to these built-in facilities, Emmi's standards-based architecture allows the hosting organization to make
use of whatever integration enabling technology is being used throughout the organization, or whatever technology
is being demanded by an external system.

See: "Integration Options"