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- Denver, 30 April 1992
-
- Odyssey Development has announced Version 3.0 of its popular PC- and
- LAN-based text retrieval product, ISYS.
-
- Steve Smith, Vice President of Odyssey Development, said "ISYS 3.0 is a
- significant upgrade. It contains many improvements and new features for
- which users have been asking. "
-
- The performance of ISYS has been boosted in several ways. Together with
- faster searching, the indexing speed has been improved four-fold on larger
- runs, indexes are 25% smaller, and RAM usage in TSR mode has been reduced
- to just 10K.
-
- One of the major new features in Version 3.0 is the ability to attach
- images to text files. This allows a user to retrieve a text file in the
- normal way and then view the image associated with the text. Multiple
- images per document can be linked to various portions of text and viewed
- at will.
-
- Other enhancements include the ability to index spreadsheets, perform
- numeric range searches, and attach notes to documents. Additionally, PKZIP
- compressed documents may be indexed and searched directly, significantly
- reducing disk space overhead. ISYS also now incorporates Automatic File
- Format Detection, simplifying the database configuration and creation
- process.
-
- Odyssey has also included an Auditor feature which can optionally monitor
- and record all ISYS usage on a network. For organizations which operate on
- a 'user pays' basis, Auditor greatly simplifies the billing process as
- detailed usage information can be output to a spreadsheet or database.
-
- WordPerfect users have been particularly well catered for in this release,
- as ISYS now indexes headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, comments and
- equations in WordPerfect documents. Also, ISYS now displays page numbers
- during browsing, which is of particular importance to the legal profession
- who are major users of ISYS.
-
- Query by Concept is an important new feature in 3.0 that allows a database
- manager to create a tree-like structure of pre-defined queries for users
- to follow. Each branch on the tree displays different subjects of interest
- to the user who can follow the train of thought down the branch until they
- reach the point of interest, and by pressing the Enter key a set of
- documents relevant to his/her needs is automatically retrieved. This
- feature recognizes the growing interest in conceptual rather than literal
- access to knowledge bases and expert systems.
-
- According to Mr Smith, "ISYS 3.0 has been in beta test since January and
- has met with rave reports from our corporate test sites. ISYS has once
- again firmly stamped itself as the most advanced, yet easiest to use, PC
- text retrieval system on the market."
-
- Odyssey Development Inc
- 650 S. Cherry St, #220, Denver CO 80222
- (303) 394 0091 Fax: (303) 394 0096
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