Microfiche has fallen hook, line and sinker to Mobius Management Systems` ViewDirect for MicroFiche Elimination, a powerful solution for converting microfiche libraries on to more cost effective storage media and making them accessible to users online.
Available in South Africa from Bateleur Software, ViewDirect for MicroFiche Elimination can improve the user`s ability to respond to customer requests, reduce costs, save valuable time and automate legal records management.
Mobius is the inventor of integrated report distribution and the worldwide leader in document management solutions. ViewDirect for Microfiche Elimination is an integral part of the company`s Scalable Enterprise Architecture providing platform- and data-independent solutions for information quality control, processing, and security within a heterogeneous computing environment.
According to Bateleur Software`s Sam Selmer-Olsen, ViewDirect is a powerful document server that eliminates the need for a microfiche because it stores images, reports, and transactions of all types on cost-effective storage media - disk, tape, CD-ROM, or optical devices - and makes them accessible to users on-line.
"Microfiche is too slow, too expensive and cannot be used on-line," he said.
"Further, COLD systems cannot handle high-volume growth, and they paint you into an `optical-only corner`. Document storage on tape, requiring recall to disk, fails for price and performance reasons.
"ViewDirect, on the other hand, delivers the advantages of the best of the storage options without incurring any of their disadvantages.
"Combined with the DocumentDirect common user interface, it gives quick and each access to documents stored on any device, anywhere in the computing environment. It ensures the data integrity, security, and control of your historical documents, from the time they are created until they are no longer needed, provides extended access to users.
"Most importantly, it takes advantage of your investment in existing hardware and software."
ViewDirect for Microfiche Elimination features:
- Retrieves documents directly from any disk, tape, CD-ROM, optical disk device. No recall to magnetic disk is required for viewing.
- ViewDirect`s Universal Archive ensures that you will always be able to access your documents-today, tomorrow
- Document access is through a single seamless interface.
- ViewDirect`s ServerTransparency(tm) means that the physical location of documents is of no concern to those accessing the documents.
- ViewDirect locates any document automatically using the EnterpriseIndex(tm) to link all documents-character reports, custom from documents, faxes and images-into virtual folders.
- ViewDirect supports any network including TCP/IP, LU6.2 (CPI-C), and SNA-3270 (HLLAPI).
"And the platform? Use what you have, whether it be NT, UNIX, AIX, Novell, AS/400, OS/2 or MVS. And just to add value, if you use ViewDirect together with DocumentDirect, you can access to documentation via the Internet or your intranet. This lets you to set up the security parameters, allowing your client to access documentation as, where, and when required, at their convenience.
"It`s the way business is going - to be more viable, you have to make information more easily available, using quick access while minimising your costs - and one of the most practical ways of doing this is to offer self-service functionality to clients."
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