IPM Suite Key Capabilities

IPM Suite enables businesses to verify, capture and manage rights and royalties for their IP assets. The secure and scalable architecture supports multicurrency, multi-language and multi-organization deployment capabilities. Flexible in its design, IPM Suite allows you to choose the right modules that fit your business needs. Functionality seamlessly integrates with your existing systems, for example 3rd-party contract management systems for contract compliance, order management systems for validating product sales against the contract and enterprise financial systems for automated invoicing, collections, payments and financial reporting.

Negotiate contracts with ease.  

The deal management module captures agreement terms, creates approval workflows, processes financial payments, allows for contract amendments, and creates a history and audit trail.

Manage complex rights and payment terms.

The rights management module supports deal search and deal creation, IP rights hierarchies, advances and guarantees, payment schedules, royalty rates, and collision checking/rights clearance/holes analysis.

Process sales data and calculate royalties in and out.

The royalty management module processes sales and usage data, calculates and validates royalties in and out, allows for deductions/recoupments, handles violations, enables analytics, and generates royalty statements.

Calculate financial payments and accruals.

The finance management module integrates seamlessly with your ERP’s AP, AR, and General Ledger and incorporates revenue recognition rules, attribute mapping into your accounting process and chart of accounts, and an accounting sub-ledger.

Gain 40+ reports and BI integration with industry popular tools.

The business analytics and reporting module includes IPM business views, dashboards, KPIs, ad-hoc reporting, data warehousing, and IP usage tracking. Supports integration with SAP BO, IBM Cognos and Oracle OBIEE. 

Provide & view forecasts and statements online.

The self service module allows for licensee, agent, and talent self service, royalty upload, talent royalty statements and history online, document sharing, portal integration, and ACH/wire transfer payments.