Publisher's Synopsis
A companion volume to "Introducing Electronic Filing", this text gives details of products and suppliers in the field.;Particular classes of products (eg mainframe and minicomputer packages, text retrieval systems and utility packages) are discussed and tabulated. A group of local area networks (LANs), ie those able to support end-user applications, is seen as constituting potential electronic filing and retrieval (EFR) products.;Also focuses on document image processing systems (DIPS), which enable complete images of documents to be stored, and on the use of microcomputer based packages in the context of electronic filing.;Information, such as product name, supplier, hardware supported, price, etc, is tabulated for many different EFR products.;Suppliers of mainframe and minicomputer packages, multifunction office automation, local area networks, document image processing systems, and micro/PC-based packages) are listed in an appendix.