• V10.1 Release notes
• Ezz Broad-based release
• Production Webservers upgraded
• v8.10 Release Notes now available
• Announcing CohesIS Enterprise Commerce Suite v8.10

• EDGE_WEB has had several routines mildly touched to compensate for an intermittent memory management problem in the sub-allocator used by our programming language.
  (These mods have been deployed on our production servers for several months, so I don’t anticipate any fallout here.)
  
• EDGE_WEB has had some system-wide improvements in the data-access layer resulting in ~20% better performance. (Also deployed on our production servers for several months at this point.)
• EDGE_WEB has been modified to support on-the-fly creation of drop-ship items from external sources. Ezz has been modified to accept drop-ship items and structure the resulting orders appropriately.
• EDGE_WEB has been modified to integrate into the SAGE item database via internet to provide search capabilities & shopping cart support.
  Items may be queried, displayed directly in any properly-configured CohesIS catalog, and purchased using our standard Shopping Cart.
  Externally-sourced items may be freely mixed-and-matched with Fulfillment & CoOp items in the Shopping Cart.
  The ECP has been modified to provide a page for entering your SAGE account information to enable the integration on a given catalog.
• The E-Commerce Publisher (ECP) has support added for wildcard-enable searching within catalog pages, with an option to display the lines containing the search pattern in a single results page with drill-down (Very useful for HTML developers.)
• The ECP has functionality added to automatically scale & save the various versions of an Item’s images from a single hi-rez file uploaded to the ECP.
  Ie. Instead of manually resizing & renaming item images, you can upload the “Zoomed” version, click a checkbox and the system will create the “Detailed” and “Thumbnail” versions.
  (Time-saver when creating new catalogs.)
• Extended CSS support has been added to the ECP. Additional CSS classes may be defined without having to customize individual web pages.
• Support has been added within EDGE_WEB for internationalization of catalogs via ISO639 codes at the user-level. Initially, this integration supports only Western languages & layouts.
  Although EDGE_WEB has internationalization support included, the STD Template Library (STL) conversion replacing hard-coded English strings with calls to the multi-language engine will not be included as part of v10.1 due to time constraints.
• Ezz has been completely converted to QCS-controlled system mgmt software, eliminating Computer Dynamics (CDI) as a vendor.
  This move is a precursor to our migration to Windows-based software, which will begin this year. As a result, some areas (such as the printer selection routine)
  may appear a bit different while still providing functional equivalence.
• The system has been modified to automatically email QCS when errors occur on your system.
  This permits us to locate problems that your users may not be reporting, and provide more responsive, proactive service.
• A “Menu Search” feature is now available throughout the system that permits your users to search system-wide for menu options.
  (Ex. You could search for “WIP” to pull up all WIP-related menu options.) Matches are displayed in a window and may be selected to take the user directly to a given menu option.
• Support for a biometric Time-Clock has been added, and the Employee Sub-system on the “EFM” menu has been extended to support Time-clock integration and time tracking by Employee.
  A Payroll report & Update process have also been added.
  
  

v10.1 Released...

The v10.1 update to the Ezz Business Management Software is almost available for all supported platforms.
A few features included are:

•Support for automated transmission of monthly Summary Billing to your clients
•Enhanced emailing functions, including A/R Statements.
•Improved security for all E-Commerce functions.
•Support for Automatic software release installations across the internet.
A complete list of new features for v10.1 is available in the Online Manual.

Please call us at 234-542-4400 or email Support to arrange for v10.1 installation at your convenience.

As part of our ongoing business plan, we have recently completed significant scheduled upgrades to the IBM servers that host these sites. IBM describes the new servers as offering “unprecedented performance and reliability for demanding distributed environments that rely on 24x7 availability of mission-critical applications”. To augment reliability, QCS configures each server with redundancies throughout, including RAID-5 technology for hard-drive access, multiple power supplies, CPUs, etc. All production webservers are monitored 24x7 by a separate system which notifies an administrator of any failures or interruption in service. The servers being rotated out of production service are kept on-site & fully-configured in an operating state to function as stand-by servers, if required.

Release notes for the new CohesIS Enterprise Commerce Suite v8.10 are available in the QCS Online Manual. Find out more!

This much-anticipated update consists of a myriad of new features, performance improvements, and streamlined processes. Here are just a few of them:

• Ezz E-Mailing. E-Mail documents directly from Ezz!
  Supported documents include:
  • Invoices
  • Customer Order Acknowledgements
  • Vendor Purchase Orders
  • A/R Statements and Collection Letters
  • Memos
  • All Order form parts!
  
  Every e-mail sent from Ezz is template-based, including your E-Commerce catalog's automatic e-mails. This means that you have almost limitless options in customizing your e-mails. Our templates support both HTML- and text-based e-mails. Bring your customer contact to a new level of professionalism with e-mails that match your corporate identity!



• Longer 60-character Email Address...up from 35
• Longer 35-character Logins....up from 10
• Longer 35-character passwords...up from 25
• Longer 32-character Employee IDs & Supervisor IDs....up from 26



• Hotkey access to context-sensitive help. You can now access the Online Manual from almost any area in Ezz. If you can access your Hotkey menu, you can access the Online Manual in just a couple of keystrokes. Not only that, but we automatically log you in and take you directly to your chosen topic!
• Enhanced procurement system compatibility adds iProcure to Ariba, SAP & Ketera
• 9 new skin designs!! Click here to view.



• Ezz makes G/L Auditing easy! The G/L Detail Report now has a batch filter, allowing you to report on a single batch. And with the G/L Transaction Detail Audit, you can now drill into the individual transactions that make up the G/L Detail!
• Expanded tracking and event logging. Event logging and tracking is paramount to maintaining a successful, efficient business. It's key in fraud prevention and data security, can speed your response times to customer inquiries, and gives you the tools to manage and improve internal processes.
• We've given Catalog Administrators even more tools for Catalog/Website development:
  • A new Project Overview section in the E-Commerce Publisher. Keep track of site customizations, custom code, and program requirements in one easy-to-access area.
  • We've added the ability to create catalogs "on-the-fly" directly from the ECP.
  • Re-engineered support for ZIP archive uploads
  • And much more!