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Welcome to the Emerald Management Suite, a highly integrated suite of tools 
providing billing, customer care, authentication and much more to businesses
and organizations around the world. Emerald is truly a precious gem in
the telecommunications industry. The Emerald Management Suite is a very easy
to use package for anyone who provides Internet access or requires user
management. It is designed to be powerful, yet efficient, even where
management of a large number of dial-up users may be required. Although 
Emerald is primarily intended for use by an Internet Service Provider (ISP),
it is very flexible in its use and capabilities and has been adopted by
universities, phone companies, businesses, and private access providers as well.

Features
In the highly competitive Telecommunications market, the key to success is 
organization and low overhead. Emerald provides solutions for both of these 
potential issues by reducing redundancy. Typically, separate user records must
be maintained for administration, technical support and accounting. With 
Emerald, you do not have to maintain several copies of each user's information
in different systems; thus work is more efficient. The centralized system keeps
the information up to date, and promotes a positive image externally by providing
timely information and professional output.

Your Emerald Management Suite, also known simply as Emerald, offers many useful
features to help you automate your dial-up accounting and administration. These
include total control of account management, accounting and billing, call tracking,
systems monitoring and management, UNIX integration, and custom detailed reports.

Two main components of Emerald are the Emerald client and the Emerald administrator.
While the client provides an accommodating environment for tracking users, the
Administrator is used to configure the suite specifically for your organization.
That is the beauty of Emerald. Emerald is powerful and comprehensive, yet is 
flexible and is ultimately customized and tailored to your organizational needs.

Emerald's extensive integration with other products and environments allow it to
be used to centrally maintained differing systems from a single interface. 
Direct integration with another core component, RadiusNT, allows any equipment
that is RADIUS compatible to access the Emerald user database to validate user
information.