The evolution of information stored by enterprises has been quite dramatic over the last few decades. Previously customer addresses, orders, supplier details, numerical records and other structured data were deemed to be the most essential types of company information capable of being stored for subsequent retrieval at a later date.

Today, company information now includes text and documents derived from reports, contracts, analysis, correspondence, books, articles and bibliographies including the use of pictures, graphics and the concept of compound documents. The growth of this information and the need to be able to browse and retrieve such data has increased with the everyday acceptance of "office automation"

Technical notes

Full integrated in the AS/400 environment

All functions are menu driven

The management of this unstructured data allowing public agencies or enterprises to make extensive use of this newly acquired base of knowledge, requires a new generation of information retrieval systems like ICARO on IBM AS/400, capable of handling text with its inherent use of pictures and images.
In today use of information technology and office systems, user-friendly retrieval systems are as important to the user community as the management of information itself.
The retrieval aspect of a documentary database must offer to the user an uncomplicated syntactical search and display language. In conjunction with user-friendly, the natural language should at the same time be "cost effective" in terms of machine performance and resources.
The above description often implies a "menu-driven" interface which is adaptable to the user's application and capable of leading the user step by step through a complex search and display strategy. Help at all times should be readily available.
User-friendly database interfaces are our speciality.