When the foretold rapid growth and subsequent expansion of the IT revolution came, most of us were knowingly caught off guard. Soon the natural event of cause and effect followed, since technology at its full speed, fueled by innovative creativity, keeps moving forward. It eventually changes the way we live and work; as much as how we are managing everyday things is changing, how we work in the office is getting systematically simpler and easier. Such trends give birth to a new opportunity in the market, which draws much attention from countless long-awaited companies around the world. Among them, one company has its mission and goal literally written all over its face.
What FOR Client's Success Means
FORCS, which stands for FOR Client's Success, is a company specialized in BI technology. It has been developing and providing web-based reporting and User Interface (UI) development solutions OZ Series. Recently, it has announced some very useful features such as mobile reporting and non-static data analysis based on technology accumulated over 16 years. These products offer powerful and optimized environments for the customers to create and distribute reports via web and mobile communication.
OZ Report, FORCS's main solution, is widely used for internal affairs and citizen services by many government organizations and also over 2,000 major corporations like Samsung, LG, and SK Telecom for their own business. Since its start-up in 2000, FORCS has focused on technological improvement and overall product perfection, and endless efforts won several awards in recognition of its contribution to the software industry in South Korea and abroad.
FORCS's President Mr. Yeo Chan-Gi remembers, "OZ Report fully meets web-accessibility. The users can view reports using any web environments such as .Net WPF, Silverlight, Flash, Applet, HTML, PDF. Furthermore, Furthermore, OZ Report supports cross platform not only for web but also mobile environments for the first time in the BI industry. With OZ Report, people can use reports on smartphones and tablet PCs. This is one good example of how FORCS brings about mobile business environment."
For an IT company, FORCS is one of the rare species that is considered to be soundly structured with stability. Mr. Yeo continued to say, "Thanks to over half of royal and dedicated employees with more or less than a 5-year working period, FORCS for the last 3 years has recorded a yearly increase of over 25% on average in sales profit, after their upgraded version of OZ in 2008, Premium OZ 5.0, motivated FORCS people to unite as one for the common goal."
FORCS's Main Solution: OZ Report
Among FORCS's OZ series products, the chief solution OZ Report could be the one who is reporting its duty here. The co-president Mr. Cho Jong-min is full of pride over its products.
"OZ Report is a leading edge reporting solution which enables the user to create any required reports including charts, forms and various data items. Most of major public organizations, financial institutions, and corporations use OZ Report. Furthermore, they can use not only desktop and notebook on the web but also tablet and smartphone on the mobile. It supports all web browsers and major mobile O/S including iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile to provide unlimited accessibility.
A smart reporting environment that adapts to user's business situations can come true."
"As to the OZ Report's main features, FORCS has developed the special application for Smartphones and Tablet PCs. With these, end-users can manage their OZ-based reports no matter what operating system, web browser, or device they use, and they can view their reports on the smartphones and tablet PCs without any additional works.
He continues, "FORCS's leading technology gives a user friendly Interface and plentiful of report components; you can find easy and effective user interface similar to Tool Bar and Shortcut Key of a word processors and can design any forms of reports by using powerful report components such as Table, CrossTab, Chart, GanttChart, BarCode, Note, Shape, etc."
"With Ad Hoc reporting feature, the end-users can create, view and print reports for non-static data by him(her)self without help of the IT staff, and even statistical data analysis is possible with aggregation functions.
"The robust and powerful OZ Report server that can accommodate a large number of users is installed at more than 1,000 public organizations for civil services. LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Doosan Infracore, Kookmin Bank, Daehan Insurance and many more major corporations chose OZ Report as their standard reporting tool."
FORCS Keeps Eyes on World Market
Poised to achieve sales earning 1.2 million US dollars at the end of this year, FORCS sets its next future goal: the overseas market. For this, the company already started to act on a long term plan to rake in 50 million US dollars in sales revenue from the international market by 2015. Different versions of OZ Report in English, Chinese, and Japanese have attracted over 1,000 international contacts so far, and FORCS keeps pouring their efforts into building a worldwide network not only in America and Japan but also throughout Southeast Asia.
Mr. Yeo said, "Almost 85% ~ 90% of the domestic market for web reporting solutions are all about Korean solutions. At the beginning, it was a different story as foreign items like Crystal Reports and J Report used to be quite dominant. Since the late 1990s, FORCS's OZ Report and the other Korean products have been gradually increasing their market share. And it looks like Crystal Reports, the world's leading report software, just cannot fare well here anymore, as such foreign solutions are now failing when it comes to price, functions, and performance compared to our Korean ones."
"FORCS is the pioneer who first cultivated the market in Korea and is now leading with the experiences of building a number of different web-based reporting systems and continuous product upgrades. We are convinced that OZ's advanced technology and competitiveness will make a smooth transition into the overseas market."
To speak volumes, he specifies, "People want something worth what they are paying for, and it is getting extremely hard to satisfy them. Even Crystal Reports only shares about 10% of the Korean market, but Crystal Reports are leading the world market as No. 1. And FORCS has a world-class software development process and the management capacity, the web-based technology that we FORCS created 100%, and other various functions. Sure, numerous certificates approve these facts."
"So, OZ products support Mobile & Smart Work, Device & Platform free, Multi Data Source and all kinds of browsers. FORCS also provides its own report components and intuitive user interface."
Finally, he added, "We are planning to first solidify our present position in Japan and increase sales, then we will focus on our next Southeast Asian market. And the ultimate goal is launching our business successfully in U.S. as global BI SW company. To take more aggressive approach in taking on the overseas markets, maintaining and expanding business relationship with local partners in Japan and actively cooperating with local companies throughout Southeast Asian countries for successful positioning in their markets are essential. Also, we are going to locate potential clients in North America and Europe by strategically using many on-line trade portal sites."
