partners.corvu.com – the new look
The new look to this website was introduced at the Partner Forum, if you haven’t seen it, please go to http://partners.corvu.com (do not use the usual “www”.) CorVu will be updating this from time to time to provide our partners a place to look for product and information updates that will make your life easier.

This site is designed to be public, but also to ensure that only contracted CorVu Partners have access to downloads. Some of the links will require your username and password. The username and password was assigned to you when you became a partner and is the same one you can use for the Tech Support Website. Both Tech Support and Cathey have a record of this information if you have misplaced yours.

The “Resources” page is meant to be a download spot for everyone. Recently, the update to the CorBusiness Product (4.20.198), the Victory Sports Demo and some other marketing tools were added to the site. Be sure to browse the site once in a while to see what is new. Anything major will be sent out via email to everyone.

CorVu is always looking for more ideas from our partners as to what other pieces of information should appear on this site. Be sure to send any suggestions to cathey.fullerton@corvu.com.

What is CorStrategy?
For those that were unable to attend the Partner Forum, CorVu introduced the new Enterprise Performance Management suite called CorStrategy. Our CorManage product (CorBusiness, Forecasting and Balanced Scorecard) is being repositioned and branded as CorStrategy. There are three new products that make up that performance suite: CorStrategy.Scorecard provides the latest innovation in scorecard automation, enabling you to develop intelligence about your organization's historical performance while gaining insight into future opportunities; CorStrategy.Finance is designed to allow companies to strategically align budgets and manage the finance process as it relates to business strategy. CorStrategy.Risk provides a strategic view of risk management, while facilitating risk methodology deployment throughout all levels of the organization.

Scorecarding will change. . .
Those who attended the Partner Forum received some training on the CorStrategy.Scorecard product. It can be sold as a stand-alone product or for use with CorBusiness. As CorVu announced several months ago, the U.S. Army is influencing the quick development of this product. The RapidScorecard product, which became available with the introduction of CorVu 4.2 is being redefined and has been renamed to CorStrategy.Scorecard. The Balanced Scorecard product, as we now know it (CorManage) is being phased out. CorVu Development has frozen the product, however, we will continue to support those customers who are using CorManage. Once the CorStrategy.Scorecard is released, you may want to contact CorVu about suggested ways to migrate from Balanced Scorecard to CorStrategy. No further enhancements or product fixes will be made to the Balanced Scorecard module. A production release of CorStrategy.Scorecard is currently being tested and is estimated to become available for beta testing and release by the end of April 2003.

Forecasting Revisited . . .
The Forecasting module was also part of the CorManage product line. This module is currently under re-design and will become part of the CorBusiness product in the near future. Some of the new features in the Forecasting module will include: multi-modeling; algorithms such as exponential smoothing, forms of regression, weighted averages; a wizard that will aid in historical data query, grouping, and forecast restriction and much more.

Product Updates
As you are probably aware, the production releases to any of CorVu’s products are available through the tech support website under the link “Client Updates” in the left margin after you sign in. Although there have been updated versions to the 4.20 product none of them have been released as a production release since the CDs were pressed in August, 2002.   We are aware there may be some issues, so I have posted the most recent update on the resource page for CorBusiness (version 4.20.198).  Your customers may only have this release if you check with CorVu Tech Support and a BETA AGREEMENT is in place as 4.20.198 is a stable release, but it is not production ready.  CorVu partners will not be required to have a Beta Agreement on file as it is covered  in the agreement on file.

There is also an update out on this page for the CorStrategy.Scorecard. I recommend only those of you with customers running the original RapidScorecard product (RSC 4.20.178 ) use this update. The product has been enhanced so much that the CorStrategy.Scorecard V4.22.195.221 on the Partner site is a completely different product from the original RapidScorecard appearing on the CorVu 4.20 CD.   Inside the \doc folder you will find an Upgrade Process.txt file.  This file will walk youthrough upgrading from an earlier version.  Do not let anyone use this update unless they have made a backup of their original RapidScorecard setup first.  There is a document “Using 422 CorStrategy.Scorecard” on the site, however, it is still a work in process.  I’m told we should have a production release for this product in March, 2003.

Announcements!
· CorVu has conducted our first training class in the new Atlanta, GA training facility. Now, your customers who don’t want to travel to Minneapolis, MN for training have the option of going to Atlanta. There are only 6 seats available, but we will try to run classes at least once a quarter depending on demand. Classes for both Minneapolis and Atlanta can be found at http://www.corvu.com/services/training.html.

· CorVision 2003 – CorVu’s annual North American users meeting will be held at the Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans, May 15-16, 2003. An announcement just went out to the customers this week. We are hoping to provide an environment that is defined by the customer, for the customer. If you or your customers have any suggestions for what they want to see, please get in touch with Cathey Fullerton as soon as possible. Cathey will be contacting customers to get suggestions over the next month or so. You can get more information at: http://corvision.corvu.com and there is a special registration package available if registrations are made by February 28, 2003.