Web Equity Manager® Comparison Table
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| Feature | Windows Equity Manager® | Web Equity Manager® |
| One System for All Loans | Agricultural Analysis and Limited Small Business Analysis | Analyzes and decisions all loan types; commercial/small business, agricultural and consumer credit requests. |
| Multi-Level Analysis (Ultra & Fast Track) |
Detailed In-depth Analysis Only | Summary Analysis for Quick Decisions on Small Loans or In-depth Analysis for Larger Loans. |
| Credit Presentation, Loan Processing & Approval Forms |
Minimal Flexibility to Customize Forms | Exceptionally flexible form generation tool that allows lending institutions to recreate their own internal forms electronically for loan processing and approval. |
| Loan Narrative | Minimal Capability | Comprehensive word processing features within the loan processing and approval forms. Saves time by not having to go outside the Web Equity Manager system to generate a loan narrative and elminates the need for a third party word processing software. |
| Electronic Loan Approval |
No Capability | Allows lending institutions to approve loans securely online utilizing e-signature functionality. This is a key feature that reduces the time and expense of traditional loan committe meetings while reducing the paperwork associated with such lending activities. |
| Centralized Data Environment | Data Dispersed Across Network Drives and Multiple PC Hard Drives | A truly centralized data storage on a single server that provides more secure and manageable access to the information the lending institution processes every day. |
| Data Accessibility |
Data on PC Hard Drive or Access Network Data Only When Connected to Network | Customer information is accessible to Web Equity Manager users any time, any where Via an Internet-based network (LAN, WAN, Intranet, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Internet). This allows lending institution personnel to get to the information they need, when they need it. |
| Standardize Lending Processes |
Minimal Capability | When a lending institution establishes a single system for all their customized loan processing and approval forms that analyzes and decisions every loan in their portfolio, it enforces standardized lending practices that eliminate fragmented processes and redundant data entry issues. It is key in sound underwriting, more productivity and government compliance regarding lending practices and risk mitigation. |
| Feature | Windows Equity Manager® | Web Equity Manager® |
| Monitor Lending Processes | No Capability | Allows lenders to monitor decision turn-around time, identify bottlenecks in the analysis and decisioning process to better serve their customers in a time-effecient manner. |
Credit Report Pulls |
No Capability |
Lenders can pull and store credit bureau reports electronically within the Web Equity Manager and include that information throughout the decisioning process. This eliminates the waiting period some lenders have to endure to receive this information via facsimile or regular mail. |
Credit Scoring |
Limited Capability |
Web Equity Manager accommodates third party or proprietary loan decisioning score cards and integrates credit bureau information within those score cards. |
| Form Letter Generation | Limited Capability | Web Equity Manager provides advanced form letter features to recreate lending institutions standard letters and incorporates customer information electronically to eliminate redundant data entry that is inherent in many lending environments. |
Watch List |
No Capability |
Allows lenders to automatically identify customers that may be on their watch lists and triggers pre-decision warnings that can stop a poor or riskier credit that the lending institution's underwriting policies cannot or will not accept before any time is wasted on the decisioning process. |
Risk Rating |
Limited Capability |
Web Equity Manager automates trigger review parameters in conjunction with credit bureau data to include customized ratios all in an exceptionally flexible configuration process. |
Custom Ratios |
Limited Capability |
Every lending institution analyzes and decisions credit requests a little differently. Web Equity Manager provides more data fields for building these proprietary ratios. These custom ratios can then be automatically used in the lending institution's risk rating parameters and on their own credit presentations. |
| Capture Balance Sheet & Income Expense Info | Capture Only six Years of Balance Sheets, Five Years Actual Income / Expense, One Projection | Web Equity Manager accommodates the capture of unlimited balance sheet, actual and projected income expense information to rapidly update the perpetual changes in customer financial records. |
| Feature | Windows Equity Manager® | Web Equity Manager® |
| Retain Schedule Level Data | Retains Schedule Level Data on One Balance Sheet and One Projection | Web Equity Manager allows lending institutions to retain all historical schedule-level customer information for all balance sheets and actual/projected income/expenses. |
Customize Chart of Accounts |
Financial Statement Format is Locked Down |
Both the commercial and agricultural lending industry utilizes standardized and customized chart of account information. Web Equity Manager allows lenders to retain all schedule level customer information for all balance sheets and actual/projected income/expenses. |
Control Data Flow |
Limited Capability, Balance Sheet Data Permanently Linked to Projection |
With Web Equity Manager lenders can automatically control how all customer information flows from the balance sheet to the projections and all other system areas. |
Monthly Cash Flow |
12 Month Cash Flow Only |
Monthly cash flows are a highly utilized factor in most all agricultural and commercial financial analysis. Web Equity Manager accommodates the use of monthly cash flows for up to 24 months in length. |
Export Reports |
No Capability |
Web Equity Manager is an exceptionally flexible system that allows users of the system to export the data that resides in the system reports into popular third party file formats that are ubiquitous in the business world such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Adobe Acrobat. This flexibility allows lenders to easily share information with everyone in their business orbit, i.e., accountants, consultants, lawyers, customers and government agencies. |
Charts & Graphs |
Limited Capability in Add-On Module |
A visual representation of a customer's financial position goes a long way in helping the customer more easily understand the data that is their livelihood. Web Equity Manager provides standardized charts and graphs for all key ratios and financial indicators. |
| Earned Equity Analysis | Capability Exists | Earned equity analysis is a commonly used tool in the lending industry for viewing the financial position of a business entity in even more detail. Web Equity Manager provides additional earned equity worksheets for those lending institutions that require this level of detailed analyis. |
| Feature | Windows Equity Manager® | Web Equity Manager® |
| Accrual Adjustments | Difficult to See How Adjustments Are Derived | Web Equity Manager provides for detailed accrual analysis worksheets that show how adjustments were derived and allows control of how those adjustments are utilized in the overall financial analysis. |
Consolidations |
Capability Exists |
Lenders can consolidate an unlimited number of customer entities and control how that customer data is brought together in the system, providing more analysis and reporting capabilities on that consolidated customer information. |
System Administration & Security |
Limited Capability |
Lending institutions utilizing Web Equity Manager are provided feature rich, highly flexible system administration tools that allow them to control who accesses the system data, from what location, as well as the system features they can have access to. While these tools are made available to lending institutions, it is their responsibility to apply these tools based upon their own underwriting policies. |
Data Mining Tools |
Capability Exists |
Lending institutions not only want to identify as many sales opportunities as possible, but they must also adhere to strict government compliance to minimize their risk. Web Equity Manager provides over 1,600 data fields that lenders can query for to maximize their marketing efforts while minimizing their portfolio risk. Web Equity Manager does this while providing exceptional reporting features, including the ability to export this data to Microsoft Excel. |
Affiliated Relationship Locator |
No Capability |
Allows lenders to easily identify a customer entity relationship to other customer entities that exist in the entire portfolio. |
Common Platform to FSA |
No Capability |
Lenders can easily exchange borrower information electronically with the USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) for guaranteed loans and subordinations. |
| Common Platform to SBA | No Capability | Lenders can easily generate a variety of Small Business Administration (SBA) guaranteed loan applications. |
| Efficient Software Upgrades | Multiple Upgrade Installations | PC-based software requires that every desktop computer be upgraded individually. For larger regional lending institutions with 100's or 1000's of staff, this can be a time consuming and costly process. Web Equity Manager upgrades are performed on one central server with no "per user" upgrades required. |
| Feature | Windows Equity Manager® | Web Equity Manager® |
| Integration with Other Systems | Cumbersome Through ASCII file Format | One of the key benefits of using an Internet Protocol (IP) solution like Web Equity Manager is the integration with other systems. No other information technology platform makes this difficult process easier for vendors and lending institutions alike. |
| Stay Current with Best-of-Breed Technology | Based On Technology Platform of Yesteryear | Web Equity Manager utilizes the very latest technology innovations available to help serve lending institutions today and into the future. |
Contact ECI for a live online demonstration of Web Equity Manager® today: 1-800-264-0787 ext. 200