DEPENDABLE SOLUTIONS
Can you give us some background to your business – when you began, what led you into this sector etc as well as an idea of staff and offices that you have? We found consumer product licensing automation a wonderful refuge after Marty sold his music industry licensing company back in 2002. At that time music was in a downward spiral so switching industries was the best idea. We built Dependable Solutions, Inc. from the ground up with a fresh code base geared to brand owners, agents and even licensees. Our initial success as our founding year of 2005 with Jesse James. He had West Coast Choppers on TV at the time and all his licensing rights through his business manager at Paragon Business Management. Well, a divorce from Sandra Bullock and loss of his TV show meant that we kept Paragon and Jesse only for a couple years. Today, we have 32 full-time employees around the globe sup-
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porting clients across 10 countries and four continents. Can you give us some information about the services that you offer in terms of contract management, product approvals, contract approvals and royalty reports? - We provide licensees, licensing agents, brand owners, and music & media companies with the most comprehensive and reliable software in the industry. - We streamline the day-to-day tasks in your licensing operation to help you build a smarter business – and stop drowning in time-consuming tasks. We handle the entirety of the licensing process, ranging from development to design and approval to retail sales – while ensuring contract compliance and royalty tracking with detailed reporting. - We boost revenues by automating all the tasks involved in implementing and overseeing a brand licensing program, hence improv-
ing communications among departments, and enabling top management to make strategic decisions through better business intelligence. For Licensees, we improve the accuracy and speed of reporting to brand owners while taking advantage of all available deductions. What other services does your system offer eg audit tracking, data management, brand protection etc? - Using APIs, our solutions can integrate with clients’ internal ERP systems. - Single-sign-on security to ensure more secured access to the system - Helping clients set up with data entry and consulting Are there other areas that your system covers? Besides our modules for contract management, royalty tracking and product development and approval management system, our system also covers:
TOTAL BRAND LICENSING
