Many PeopleSoft Customers literally have forests of trees that they need to maintain to support their various needs. Many times these trees are needed to support several different reporting structures over their data. Keeping these trees up to date over time can be a very expensive and time consuming process.

For example, insurance companies are required by law to maintain two different account structures: one for standard GAAP reporting and one for the statuatory reporting required by licensing entities. This means that at a minimum, two trees have to be updated each time a new account is added to the system.

Tree Maintenance Snapon

Over the past few months, we've had several companies ask us to help them reduce the time and effort needed to maintain their trees as well as reducing the inaccuracies that occur in their reports because of tree maintenance errors. We're just wrapping up development on a product meeting these needs, the Grey Sparling Tree Maintenance Snapon

Intriguing... So what does it do?

Great question! This product helps organizations better keep their trees up to date through the following:

• By identifying all the trees that should contain a given value and whether those trees actually contain them
• By helping users to pick where the values should be added to the tree and using some ingenious logic to try to apply the selection to multiple trees
• By exposing this functionality at the point where the valid values supporting a tree are maintained
• And, by allowing the same functionality to be leveraged after the fact, by enabling a user to add values to trees by generating a list of trees that should contain a value (and doesn't) after the fact

Here's a brochure that discusses it.

If you're interested in seeing how the product works, we've put together a short demo of it in action.

Okay... We've finally put up the product pages as well... Here's where you can learn more about it.

Labels: 2007, Products, Tree_Manager