SuperStream speeds uptime to market for new
product by 25%

The company strongly supports global
companies from Japan with the relaunchof management foundational solution“SuperStream-NX”
Carrying out a version upgrade of any software is not easy - especially when you need to keep more than

8,000 medium-to-large companies (as of March, 2017) happy. When more than 10% of those clients are in
the Fortune 500 or are publicly listed companies in Japan, it could seem near impossible.

“SuperStream” series provided by SuperStream Inc., has been available for more than 20 years, since its
launch in June 1995. SuperStream needed to renew the user interface of SuperStream-NX, the latest
version of SuperStream after 7 years in the market.

Their goal was launch Version 2.0 of the desktop app within a 24-month project window.
Leveraging the components and tools from Infragistics Ultimate UI for WPF, and integrating ReportPlus

Embedded, SuperStream NX-Ver. 2.0 launched six months ahead of schedule, and with more features thaninitially conceived, helping companies optimize core tasks in accounting and human resources management.
SuperStream Chief Technology Officer Makoto Yamada, who directly heads the project development team,said, “We wanted to modernize and move to WPF with Version 2.0. Working with Infragistics, we migrated all
our UI/UX components to Infragistics’ library.”“We also added a lot of functionalities that our customers have requested over the past 7 years, withInfragistics Ultimate UI component library we managed to complete the upgrade in 1.5 years instead of two,
despite of the size of our ERP package. We also added embedded analytics to SuperStream-NX Ver. 2.0

which was not in the initial plan,” said Yamada, who also serves as a director and Chief Marketing Officer.

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Supporting Business ChangeThis launch was more strategic than a simple software update. “This is to strongly support the overseas
business expansion of our Japanese clients so they can have a connected accounting system andsubstantially cut IT investment costs as a whole,” said Yamada.

Realizing it would be impossible to achieve everything they wanted for the revamp by coding from scratch,

Yamada – who first joined the firm in 1998 – and his team decided that SuperStream should collaborate withUS-based UX component vendor Infragistics and integrate its Infragistics Ultimate UI for WPF components
for richer UI features. They quickly leveraged the sample code to integrate the multi-row layout grids and it

made their product sing. SuperStream also relied on Infragistics support team to get expert answers quickly.
In addition to the Grid control, the team leveraged the Calendar, Pivot Grid, Property Grid, Rich Text Editor,
Infragistics Drag and Drop Framework, Infragistics Excel Engine and more.

“We’ve adopted a simple yet elegant page layout for data, with a flat and universal design that is most user-friendly,” said Yamada, who added that SuperStream managed to develop some input grid controls together
with Infragistics.

One such handy function is the “cursor skip” feature that allows cursor to move intelligently between cells

without having to the return key - effectively accounting data can be input just by using the numerical keys.
This is a very welcome feature for core tasks in accounting and human resource operations, explained IT
Architect Jun Sato.

journal entry screen corresponding to free layout, and report“ Thefunction with advanced grid technology are very convenient and highlyevaluated by our clients.
“Jun Sato, IT Architect

A timely visit by Infragistics’ CEO Dean Guida led to the integration of BI tool ReportPlus Embedded toSuperStream NX-Ver. 2.0 as well. The wide range of dashboards with preset themes to customize colors

and fonts helps to make sense of data sets of all sizes and make trends easily distinguishable for informed
business decisions based on the latest global data. The data visualization from Infragistics’ ReportPlus

Embedded provides robust BI data processing and graphic presentations to complement the grids andcontrols that they were already building in to the product. The project went from modernizing the product, totransforming it.

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By embedding ReportPlus, SuperStream-NX Ver. 2.0 makes it possible to easily visualize the actual data
displayed on the screen using this ReportPlus Embedded, so it becomes possible to visually grasp thebusiness situation. SuperStream customized and branded the dashboards seamlessly; customers can’t tell it
is a white label solution.

Work on the upgrade started in the summer of 2015, and was projected to finish in 2018. However, the tools

from Infragistics helped the team to write even faster than anticipated, and to the delight of partners and userclients, SuperStream-NX Ver.2.0 released six months ahead of schedule, on June 1, 2017.

not only launched it ahead of schedule, but with more features and“ Wefunctions than originally planned.
“Takashi Matsui, Technical Support Manager of the Product Development Team.

Embedded Business Intelligence Leads to Better Insight“Our customers use management accounting via SuperStream to support BI analysis not only for entire
company but also across multiple organizations using segmentation and project codes via ReportPlus
Embedded,” Matsui explained.

For example, managers at the Japanese headquarters can refer to financial statements of their overseas

branches instantaneously, improving the accuracy of financial consolidation. Data can also be compared withoutsourcing results in easy to visualize graphical form.

ReportPlus“ Integrating
Embedded was easy and fast,with minimum coding needed.
Time is of the essence whenit comes to a software revampand relaunch. Not having towrite complex code to achieve
what we wanted helps a lot.

“Takashi Matsui, Technical Support Manager ofthe Product Development Team.

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Despite the late-stage decision to include ReportPlus Embedded in SuperStream NX-Ver.2.0, the easy

integration of ReportPlus and help of Infragistics’ technological support staff allowed the addition without any
delay in the launch date.

“We managed to incorporate the ReportPlus Embedded features in just three months. The sample codeprovided by the Infragistics’ support team was very helpful,” said Sato.

Added Matsui, “The sample browser that we were provided with allowed us to easily envision the possibilities
with Infragistics.”

Empowering Global Connectivity

To cater to the need for greater accounting transparency and stricter corporate governance, SuperStream-NX Ver. 2.0 provides “multilingual framework” which can create environments meet each countries’ language
and accounting system.

The system is also available in Japanese and English controls for ease of global use in the cloud, allowing theHQ and overseas operations to open the same screen and perform the simultaneous operations.

Additionally, reporting features were vastly improved in the new version, in large part because of the synergyof working with both Infragistics’ WPF tools and embedded BI.

“For the SuperStream-NX Ver. 2.0, we have provided types of report functions, Excel Report, Pivot Report,

ReportPlus, Excel plug-in. Since the reports created can be put out in Excel or PDF format, we believe that it

can contribute to effective utilization of accumulated accounting data and improvement of productivity”, Sato
explained.

Sampling the Possibilities

Matsui also felt that the provision of a WPF sample browser made it easy to visualize the possibilities withUltimate UI for WPF.

“The powerful functionality of grid tools was most impressive and helped us address the lack of suchfeatures in the older version,” said Matsui. “In terms of cost control and given our timeframe, we wouldn’t havemanaged to do the relaunch in time without Infragistics’ UI library that were easy to integrate and ready-touse. The technical support team also gave us sample code, so that really helped save a lot of time.”

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Yamada highlights 4 core features of SuperStream NX-Ver.2.0 – Visualization of Management; ComfortableOperability; Flexible reporting and Form creation; and the provision of the Internet of Accounting.

The company plans to migrate all clients to SuperStream Version.2.0 within the next two years, and aims tobring the total tally of clients using the product to 10,000 firms by 2020, says Yamada.

“Moving forward, we look to add to our IoA services, such as AI, FinTech and robotic process automation. We
hope SuperStream-NX Ver2.0 will help revolutionize the accounting and HR management framework,” said
Yamada. “With our new capabilities we look forward to expanding our mobile solutions suite next year.”Start Your Own Success Story

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