3.16.Op 9 oktober 2018 heeft [Vice President of Finance Y] de volgende verklaring afgelegd:
My name is [Vice President of Finance Y] . I am the Vice President of Finance for [Y] , and I have been with the company for eleven years.
l have done numerous transitions of software over the years. [X] ’s software contained many flaws and was not operational for us to use as our Traffic and Billing Software.
On or about October 16, 2017, a group of [Y] 's employees, including myself, met with [President X USA] , President of [X] Software USA Inc., in [plaats] for a presentation on [X] Software . [President X USA] told us that [X] ’s software would be able to do a lot more than the software [Y] has used previously, such as credit card processing, integration into Quickbooks, and the ability to bill from one database from multiple locations.
On or about November 7, 2017, [President X USA] introduced us by email to [Customer Service Representative 1] as our Customer Service Representative who would be training us on the [X] software .
[Customer Service Representative 1] was in the Netherlands office with [eigenaar X B.V.] , owner of [X] Software B.V.
[President X USA] and [eigenaar X B.V.] scheduled an evaluation meeting with a group of us in [plaats] on or about November 20-21, 2017. We spent several hours discussing how we ran [Y] , what our current system could do, and what we would like to be able to do with the [X] software once we implemented it.
After that meeting, my colleagues and I spent hours sending [President X USA] and [eigenaar X B.V.] files so they had the parameters of what [Y] needed and wanted in a Workflow Evaluation. I do not believe [President X USA] and [eigenaar X B.V.] forwarded that information to our Customer Service Representative [Customer Service Representative 1] , because l had to spend a lot of time re-sending that information to her.
We scheduled training for the week of December 11th from 9-l I a.m. each day with [Customer Service Representative 1] . We had two weeks of training and entered orders for advertisements.
On or about December 12th, 2017, we were given our login information and finally able to see the [X] software for the first time. There were two components, Quote and Traffic. Quote was for the salespeople to enter orders. Traffic was to bring the orders over from Quote, work with the logs, and do billing.
Beginning on or about December 27th, 2017, the [Y] Production team had training for a few days.
[Y] ’s initial plan was to “go live" with the [X] software on January 1st, 2018. We were not able to do that because there were too many problems with the [X] software . [President X USA] asked for a meeting with [President Y] , President of [Y] , on or about January 4 to discuss the issues.
[X] hired [Customer Service Representative 2] in Colorado on or about January 19, 2018 to replace [Customer Service Representative 1] as [Y] ’s new Customer Service Representative. I had previously worked with [Customer Service Representative 2] with Radio Traffic software for several years.
When the [X] software was not adequate to “go live” on January 1st, the “go live” date was pushed back to February 1st. When the [X] software still was not ready to “go live” on February 1st, the “go live” date was pushed back to March 1st. [Y] had to keep going back into the orders and changing the dates in the system software each time the [X] software was not ready. After the [X] software still was not ready for the March 1st implementation, l told [President Y] that the software was not what [X] promised [Y] . [Y] had put in so many hours of work trying to make the [X] software work. I was dedicating more than half of my time trying to get [X] software implemented, and I was forced to inquire about hiring someone to help with my work load at [Y] .
I showed [Y] 's Customer Service Representative [Customer Service Representative 2] specific instances of problems with the [X] software while we were online together, and she admitted, “You're right [Vice President of Finance Y] , that isn’t right. It shouldn't be that way.”
Some of the things that were wrong with the [X] software were:
1. There were date and computation errors when moving orders from Quote to Traffic.
2. All of the salespeople could see all the orders even though [Y] specifically asked [X] at the first meeting to prevent this and [X] promised [Y] that the software would prevent it.
3. [X] promised [Y] that the [X] software would grant different levels of access to information for salespeople and management, but the software granted the same level of access for everyone.
4. [X] said the [X] software could process credit cards for [Y] but then said it could not.
5. [X] said its software would be able to integrate data directly between the [X] software and Quickbooks to save me the time of manually entering information. but the [X] software could not do this.
6. The Revenue Source, Revenue Type, and Conflict Codes had to be manually entered in the Traffic component of the [X] software instead of on the account in the Quote component. [X] promised that this would not be the case.
7. [Y] could not bill by location or station like [X] promised us we could at the first
meeting.
8. [X] indicated to [Y] that it could meet all of our needs for different types of invoices. Using our current software, we have 13 invoices to choose from. We asked [X] for three types of invoices, but they tried to talk us out of it.
9. The first draft of the software’s invoice that [X] presented to us was unprofessional. I had to tell [X] basic information that needed to be on the invoice like return addresses, addresses, and that the money portion needed to be in dollars. I also had to design the print confirmations and statements.
10. Print confirmations were only available in the Quote component even though [X] led [Y] to believe the print confirmations would also be available in the Traffic component. Having the print confirmations only available in the Quote component is not realistic in the United States.
11. The ability to import orders from Strata was never shown to us even though [Y] requested it and [X] told us at the first meeting that it would be available.
12. Ability to re-print invoices in a batch in case of printer errors was not available even though [Y] requested it and [X] promised it.
13. The same customer was in the same break multiple times on the logs even though [X] promised [Y] this would not happen.
14. [X] used two types of print confirmations which would lead to computation errors if someone printed the wrong one.
15. [Y] was not able to do a sample log in the [X] system because there were too many errors before that step.
16. [X] promised [Y] that it could have signatures and notary by location, but then [X] told [Y] that the software could not do it.
17. [X] put a rate card in the system which messed up order entry, and [President Y] and l had to tell [X] multiple times to take it out before they finally did.
These are just some of the problems we had with the [X] software . We have emails to document our trouble with the [X] software , and [President X USA] was aware of the many problems we had. After two of the "go live” dates were missed, [President X USA] said in an email, "My apologies to you. You should not be experiencing this level of frustration. I don't have an answer as to why these things are happening," and he went on to thank [Y] for our "infinite patience" for having to deal with all the software's problems that were not getting fixed. Please see his attached email.