Comprehensive inventory and cost management
(Cross discipline control and management of costs)
Distributed architecture
(Wide area distribution with detailed permissioning capabilities)
Sophisticated contract management
(Detailed contract management for all IT contracts)
Global reporting and analysis
(Cross center reviews and comparisons)
Optimization tools and models
(Indices, ratios, tools and models to effectively reduce costs)
Integrated usage data
(Detailed data usage assessment to determine underutilized services and options)
  

Maidas is uniquely positioned to function as a comprehensive standalone market data management system, or as a middleware solution incorporating many advanced analytical functions.  Version 3.2 release integrates user access information (from either the Maidas application or existing market data management system), usage data from a variety of recognized industry sources (such as Reuters Triarch), and advanced data sourcing options (MAI Cache Machine), industry benchmarks (MAI global market data benchmarks), and custom models, to provide a comprehensive array of market data optimization and analysis tools to the user.
  

  

Key features with Version 3.2 and the middleware solution are:

Sophisticated contract management
Custom optimization reports
Market data benchmarks
Market data sourcing options (Cache Machine)
Market data usage reporting (beta)
Custom product and vendor critiques
Custom models
Soft $ / commission reporting
Comprehensive market data solution
  
  
  

Maidas version 3.3 release enhances several, key existing features with Maidas.  These enhancements will provide greater inventory and invoice control and enhanced ease of use. 

          Key features with this release are:
Enhanced service change tracking
Enhanced invoice reconciliation
Enhanced data importing for company internal information
Enhanced contract terms and conditions
Enhanced reporting for out – of – configuration services