---

It is still very difficult to collect management information out of all the data stored in the still growing number of automated information systems. You are right when you consider the -often- incomprehensible solutions of the computer experts too complex. SuperCollect is just the thing you want, because it is simple and uses the knowledge already available in your organisation.

SuperCollect is an automated system for data collection and data transformation using the Internet and has been build around Excel. Your people know how to use this popular and well-known software product.

Potential users of SuperCollect are:

• Organisations collecting data from their business units.
• Governmental institutions collecting data for various reasons (tax, social security, statistics) from enterprises.
• Professional organisations collecting data from their members.
• Accounting offices collecting raw data from their clients.
• Organisations transferring data from their Internet applications (E-Commerce or E-procurement) into their legacy information systems.

The benefits of the use of SuperCollect to transfer data from the administration of a company (data provider) into an electronic questionnaire of a data collector are:

• Easy to use and understand.
• No unnecessary manipulating of data.
• Easy way of formulating questions.
• All (decentralised stored) data is really (central) available.
• Short implementation: up and running in one month.
• Optimal use of the Internet as a carrier of the messages between you and your data providers involved.
• Tools for building and maintaining the questionnaire.
• The highest security methods applied.

Using SuperCollect, you don't bother anymore about the variety in your or your partners' information systems. Don't try to understand them. Your information need is mostly very simple to formulate and to formalise. Just do that. Don't formalise more than necessary. Too much formalisation leads to inflexibility.

SuperCollectis based on loosely coupled systems. Excel gives the flexibility to cope with the output of all kinds of systems: varying from the mainframes until the modern object oriented database.

Automated transfer
COLLECTOR: Easily defined questions	PROVIDER: Standard software