Value and Pricing for Purveyor Software and/or the BB4GL

Value

• Activity-Based Cost (ABC) Accounting (Net Profit Analysis)
• Manufacturing/Production (MRP) and Bill of Materials
• Standard Cost Accounting
• Just-In-Time (JIT) Inventory
• Fully integrated case/box buying/selling/production system AND catchweights.
• Master (Parent/Child) A/R and A/P, as well as Ship-tos and Pick-ups
• Excellent Credit Controls
• Fully integrated and available Quality Control
• Date qualified (aged) product availability and arrival
• Detail and Summary Customer and Vendor (cross Product) Screens and Reports
• Immediate A/R Posting of Counter Cash Receipts.
• Truck Routing and ETAs
• Freight, & Storage Management, Costing, and Payables
• Suggested/Automated Purchase, Branch Transfer, and Sales Orders
• Advanced Security
• Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) for Data Warehousing and File Transfer
• Standardized and user defined file maintenance of all files
• Graphical User Interface (GUI), including mouse, arrows, hot-keys, and user-definable function keys
• BuildingBlocks4GL Fourth Generation Language including UPDate screen generator and generic file processor (not to be confused with the UP processor from Raining Data, which is a vastly different product), pull-down and/or bar menus, 'safe' TCL, report writing, menu-driven spooler, cursor- and mouse- controlled (PC style) editing of all data entry fields, and the best lookup features available today. The BB4GL is a set of powerful Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools which REI designed and developed independently to accelerate the development of the REI Purveyor Software application and to offer as a separate product, apart from Purveyor, as well. While we did develop these independently, we did so from our experience with other systems and applications and pulled heavily from best practices there.
• A 4GL/RAD Manual.
• Service-Oriented Architecture which makes maintenance and powerful changes easy.
• Low system overhead (it is an incredibly quick and responsive application both in terms of user-interface and processing throughput) which makes daily use easy and makes the product scalable potentially up to one of the largest databases in the world.
  
• Very serious security features including direct access only to administration-defined menus, optional double logon, optional double password at logon, security in each major data entry program, security within menus at appropriate places (these can easily be modified by the administrator), security checks at each transaction (optional to the administrator for some data entry screens). This system controls not only access to the programs but options within the programs such as the ability to see cost or not or the ability to override some other security feature, through administrator-only-modifiable profile parameter lists.

Pricing - contact us

• Services - price depends on the type of service.
• Purveyor - prices are heavily dependent on the number of users, the type of installation (ASP versus client-server), and the level of support required. Contact TigerLogic/RainingData for current pricing for mvBase or mvEnterprise. Contact AccuTerm for their current pricing. Or, contact us and we will price out the whole package for you. Purveyor includes the BB4GL below at no extra charge. Be prepared with an approximate maximum number of users and whether you think you would want a client-server or an Application Service Provider configuration, for Purveyor.
• BB4GL - prices are dependent on the level of support required. Options include limited support in off-business-hours or no support, warranted or unwarranted. The BB4GL is a set of powerful Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools which REI designed and developed independently to accelerate the development of the REI Purveyor Software application and to offer as a separate product, apart from Purveyor, as well. While we did develop these independently, we did so from our experience with other systems and applications and pulled heavily from best practices there. The major elements available are:
• Application Menus
• GUI Editing Subroutines
• Spooler Menus
• Security
• 'E' editor
• Data Integrity Package (include UPDate master file maintenance as well as ICV and OCV)
• Report Writer and TCL Stacker
• Proc to Basic Translator
• Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL)
• Power Tools
• Programming Language Extensions
• MultiValue Compatibility Library
• GrabBag of Utilities - provides useful programs and subroutines.


• On both the BB4GL RAD Tools and Purveyor Software, we offer a 90-day satisfaction guarantee, or your money back! We'd also like to reduce the costs of Purveyor ownership to any new client who would be willing to sell their data back to us every year for at least three years so that we may have more up-to-date testing and demonstration data. We, of course, would fictionalize the customer and vendor names, etc., in that data. Purveyor Software is supported and "wrapped" by, and integrated and bundled with, the BB4GL RAD Tools. The BB4GL RAD Tools can also be purchased separately.
• Source code is included for both products, in the client-server configuration.
• References are available upon request for both products.