New Look and Feel

With the release of Version 5, EPS Professional has taken on a whole new look. The impact can been seen starting at the login screen and continues though the entire system, providing a consistent and attractive new user interface. Larger screens, a File Manager style interface, the replacement of icon labelling with text labelling and new tab based layouts make moving through the system simpler, quicker and easier. The new look and feel also reduces training time because of the streamlining of the menus and screens.

File Manager style interface

The new file manager style interface provides quick and easy access to all system screens and well as providing a one glance overview of the software for new users.

Text Based Labels

Many of the icons in the system have been replaced with text labels. This simple change makes it easier for occasional users to move around the system.

Tabbed Interface

where appropriate screens have been combined with tabbed elements used to move between the screens. Combining screens makes it easier to move between related screens and reduces screen clutter that can occur with multiple open screens.

Franchise Support

With Version 5, extensive support of Franchises and franchise management has been included in the system. The Franchise area of EPS Professional follows the same approach as the Leases areas, with a portfolio view giving access to a range of franchise information and agreements. In addition, just as lease payments and invoices can be directly integrated with company accounting systems to automate approvals and prevent over/under payments.

Key franchise data tracking

A range of tools and screens allow the Franchisor to track the information related to each individual franchise, with system generated reminders of key dates and actions that need to occur. Breaches, disputes, training and usage can all be tracked and actioned to ensure that an accurate record of franchise history is kept for legal and operational purposes

Contacts

A full contact database, related to each lease and franchise, makes it easy to store names and telephone numbers of key franchisee staff in a central location for use by all users.

Franchise Agreements

Franchise agreement terms and conditions along with provisions and security are tracked and actioned by the system to ensure that all franchises are managed in an optimum way.

Store Development

The Store Development module is an integrated retail project management application that provides clients with the information and tools to more effectively develop new stores and upgrade existing stores.

Planning and implementing single and mult-store projects such as refits or new store rollouts can be incredibly complex. When you’re responsible for implementing multiple projects in multiple locations, with multiple vendors, in multiple states, issues can quickly get or of control.

Oversights are easily made, which can cause cost or time overruns. The Store Development module gives you complete control over your projects so you can bring them in on time and on budget.

Feasibility Analysis

Use Store Development to develop costing models at the outset of the project. Easy to use project copying and benchmarking tools let you quickly develop project cost estimates.

Planning and Design

In this stage of the project the software lets you take control of timelines, detailed design, and cost planning. The templating features makes it easy to copy the prototype project and change details for your specific project.

Implementation

Store Development makes project implementation a dream. You’ll have full control of your project including all vendor administration. The critical date calendar tracks project milestones and tasks. It also supports full authorisation and payment administration.

Data Warehouse

EPS Professional V5.0 also introduces the EPS Professional Data Warehouse to the system. The data warehouse will become he key location for all reporting information in the system.

The data warehouse is expressly designed for management reporting and is updated overnight by the EPS Professional system. Using a variety of Executive Information System tools such as the CorVu Performance Management system, users can create reports on the fly. Simply and easily extracting information from the EPS Professional system and presenting it in easy to design, interactive reports.

The advantage of using the data warehouse is that most of the data preparation work has already been performed for you. You don’t need to know how the data is structured inside EPS Professional.

By using the data warehouse you simply relate each piece of data you want using the Location Number. To create a report it’s simply a matter of selecting the fields you want and running the report.

While customers can use many different reporting tools to extract data from the data warehouse, EPS has pre-integrated CorVu CorBusiness software so that users can have a range of prewritten reports if they choose to use CorVu as their performance management tool.