Edgar - Passenger Revenue Accounting Software

Overview
EDGAR is a powerful, complete and highly automated sales-based passenger revenue accounting system.
Fully compliant with IATA regulatory requirements, EDGAR is the result of more than ten years of constant improvements, based on the experience of airline industry professionals.

Designed with two concepts in mind, productivity and timely information, Edgar was devised to integrate various data sources and provide managers with the most accurate, detailed and relevant outputs.

Covering all fields and activities of Revenue Accounting, one of EDGAR's competitive edges is its G/L interface. It provides Corporate Management System Information for performance analysis and assists Management, Accounting, Sales and Marketing departments in decision-making.

EDGAR is innovative in terms of industry features such as tax proration and sales-based FIM processing, with a real-time proration engine and fully automated processing of code-share and block-seat agreements.

Business Benefits
Improved productivity

• Automation of most processes makes human intervention necessary only exceptionally, thus reducing agent intervention to a minimum
• Automated data exchanges with industry partners (GDS, ARC, BSP, IATA, Airlines, E-ticketing interline etc).

Increased profitability

• Revenue protection from issuing agents (fare commission and tax auditing, exchange and refunds audit)
• Revenue protection from interline partners (inward billing check)
• Revenue protection with integrity control (missing e-ticket check etc)
• Accurate revenue accounting (gross values, commissions and taxes)
• All anomalies in fare and commission computations, billings, payments and tax collections/billings are systematically and quickly detected and dealt with.

Improved decision-making

• Extensive set of accounting editions, commercial statistics and dashboards
• Complete EDGAR data can be sent to an airline's standard data warehouse
• Real-time, precise and detailed vision of an airline's activity
• Exhaustive management and financial reports, through General Ledger interface.

Flexibility

• Quick adaptation to industry changes
• Airlines' particular business rules are easily integrated
• Can be integrated with other operational and managerial systems
• Interaction with your information system: Catalogue of Web Services available.

Edgar's key transverse functions

• Automated exchanges of data (BSP, ARC, GDS, IATA, ATPCO, etc)
• Complete life cycle of a ticket (sale, payment, passenger sale report, itinerary, use etc)
• Automatic allocation of taxes/fees/charges at coupon level [TFCs]
• On-line proration engine - Multilateral Proration Agreements (MPAs), Special Prorate Agreements (SPAs) and other bilateral scenarios
• Tax proration
• Powerful inward-billing check and automated rejection memo issuance
• Booking of revenue records for no-shows etc. (processing of PFS, PRL and other operational messages)
• Sampling module
• First and final module
• Frequent-flyer award billing
• UATP funding.

EDGAR's primary standard features
Access and authorisations

• A specific sub-application is available in EDGAR systems for the allocation of access to forms on a per-user basis.

Data capture

• Automatic integration of information with data transfers and/or interfaces (ARC, BSP and GDS files, inward invoices in IDEC format)
• Manual integration possible
• Numerous functions provide for accurate and fast data capture.

Sales data processing

• Automatic proration of documents as per industry norms (MPAs, SPAs, Provisos) ? complex fare calculations are crunched easily by the powerful prorate engine
• Handling of VAT and CP (penalty fee).

Sales audit

• Auditing of fares, commissions and taxes done in batch and according to prevailing industry rules
• Processing of unreported sales
• Automated generation and transmission of agency debit memos (ADMs) and agency credit memos (ACMs) to external source (e.g. BSP Link) through mass upload.

Flown document processing

• Advanced flight set management (based on real-time flight operation messages)
• Control on upgrades done at airport
• Bparser (SSIM and DCS interface): Passenger manifests (PRL, PFS etc) integrated into the system for automated reconciliation of uplifts
• Bparser is a tool that analyses DCS messages and that allows the storing of data in operational tables. The analysed data can then be used by an airline company's information system.

Outward interline billing

• First and final billing
• Handling of codeshare/block-seat agreements
• Simplified FIM billing
• SIS: new industry features (currently in development).

Inward interline billing

• Automated time-limit checks
• Automated endorsement check
• Automatic Re-proration based on the date of inward billing
• In-built facility for correspondence management.

Comprehensive reporting
This is done through powerful Business Intelligence at different levels including:

• Custom reports using different levels of information (e.g. reports on sales, uplifts or invoices)
• General Ledger interface: each transaction processed in EDGAR is posted in the GL interface output
• Balances:  account analysis of forward sales
• End-user reporting tools with facilities such as ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and data mart
• Enterprise data warehouse, OLAP (on-line analytical processing)
• Data mining to Business Intelligence: forecasting, dashboards, & scorecards (EDGAR & agents' key performance indicators)
• Content management.

Quality Control Tools

• Sequences for Quality Controls

Quality Controls are done through sequences to detect anomalies (whereby anomalies are detected via specific conditions chosen by the user). Customizable control sequences give users a wide range of manoeuvres at different levels with the possibility to execute these controls ad-hoc.

• QCA : Quality Control Agent

A preventive action tool: QCA sends an e-mail alert on a daily basis to Revenue Accounting Managers and Supervisors regarding potential non-conformities

• Revenue Accounting KPI report 

KPI reports are statistics dashboard on system utilisation.

• Audit Mode

Audit mode is a new concept brought to our software enabling Supervisors and Revenue Accounting Managers to protect their revenue and closely monitor sales and refund activities through a new automatic audit tool.

Configuration
Oracle RDBMS-based server (Linux, Unix, Windows etc)
Clients: PC (Windows) or any client with Java browser (including Linux or Windows-based thin client)

Hosting solutions
Edgar is available either as in-house software or via an Application Service Provider.
Edgar can also be operated directly by our Outsourcing Revenue Accounting Services Department.

Hosting solutions
Edgar is available either as in-house software or via an Application Service Provider.
Edgar can also be operated directly by our Outsourcing Revenue Accounting Services Department.