Enterprise Software Agility is an enterprise solutions company that helps extend the life of existing enterprise systems through upgrades, reimplementations, and added solutions. Their B2Win product allows users to convert reports from Baan and other enterprise systems into Excel, Word, PDF, HTML, and XML formats with just one click for easier sharing and analysis. B2Win can automatically convert most reports and has features for customizing conversions of non-standard reports. It has been implemented at hundreds of sites around the world to streamline report sharing.

1. BREATHE LONGER LIFE INTO YOUR ENTERPRISE SYSTEMSeric@esapl.net

2. Enterprise Software Agility (ESA) is an Enterprise Solutions company driven by 40 plus years of experience. With its strong Presence in Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and UK the Company is primarily concerned with prolonging the installed life of Enterprise Systems through tuning, reimplemetation and smooth cost effective upgrades. The addition of extended solutions further maintains ROI and continually reduces TCO.http://www.esapl.net*For the purposes of this presentation Please note Baan and ERP are registered trade names of Infor

3. B2Win (Baan* and LN* to Windows)B2Win is the ultimate utility to get your Baan output directly into Excel, Word, Acrobat, HTML, XML or Notepad.

4. B2Win - CustomersSince June, 2000, B2Win has been installed at hundreds of servers in more than 57 countries. It is used daily by users to automate transfer of Baan and Infor ERP Ln reports into front-office applications.

5. Installing B2WinIt is easy to deploy B2Win. It is installed on the Baan Server, and there is no need to install it on every single PC in the organization – Yet every user working with Baan can use it.

6. Using B2WinPrint a report from Baan and Choose device B2Win

7. Infew moments, the following screen appears:Upon pressing on one of the B2XX icons, the following actions can be performed:Launch: Launches the application with the file in the chosen format

8. Archive: Archives the file in the chosen format in a pre-defined directory

9. Send: Opens B2Email Plus with the report in the chosen format attached to the e-mail message andready to be sentSix File Formats, four Conversion Modes, Logo, Background, Font and OrientationFor every output format you choose, (Excel, Word, Notepad, PDF, HTML and XML) you have the possibility to receive the result in one of four modes: Table – B2Win will clean all titles – Automatically or based on the configuration designed earlier for this report, and the result will be in a table format. As-Is– The report will be taken as-is into the chosen format. No fonts or configuration will be taken into account.

10. Six File Formats, four Conversion Modes, Logo, Background, Font and Orientation Graphics – The report will be exported to the chosen format with the fonts defined in Baan. User-Defined – The report will be exported while a pre-defined macro will run directly after it.In addition to these four modes, the company logo and the report background can be added to the generated document, the report Orientation and fonts can be changed. If you wish to use a logo that belongs to a different company than the current one, changing the company number will allow this.Using the “Save Defaults” Option will save these values for future running of the same report.

11. Automatic ConversionB2Win can automatically convert most reports into Excel and other tabular modes without any human intervention. B2Win uses a smart conversion tool that performs the following:Delete Titles that appear in every page

12. Delete headers that appear in every page and use them only once

13. Recognize leading zeros

14. Recognize the minus sign on the right side in Finance Reports

15. Convert to the client’s date format, decimal symbol and thousand separatorNon-standard ReportsIf you have sub-headers, an irregular header, or a different delimiter than the standard “|” in Baan reports, you need additional formatting in order to allow better report conversion to Excel.The following are examples for non-standard reports:

16. Configuring your report – An exampleThe following is an example of the extra information needed in order to allow better conversion in the “table mode” (specially into Excel). A missing delimiterFloating headerSub totals can be done by Excel

17. The Solution – Configure your report with the B2Win wizard:Assign Main HeaderAdd Floating HeaderPress “Next”Add Floating Value

18. Assign Data TypeRename Column Title

19. Choose Column to SplitMark location and split

20. AdditionalReportFormattingConditional Formatting

21. The result in Excel after converting the report using B2WinReport needs to configured only once. Next time this report is run by any user, same settings will be used for optimal conversion of report to tabular format.The configuration is saved per language.

22. The following are some examples of B2Win capabilitiesB2Excel

23. B2WordAs-Is mode + backgroundTable mode

24. B2PDFAs-Is mode + header and footerGraphics mode + Background

25. B2HTMLTable mode