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ND-NOTIS was a tightly integrated yet modular office automation suite by Norsk Data introduced in the early 80s, running on the SINTRAN III platform on both ND-100 and ND-500 architectures. It was also available on MS Windows running in networks of Norsk Data servers.
It was very successful, and was the main product line of the company for quite a while, cementing its position in the Norwegian government office automation market. It was also very popular in Germany and in the UK (local municipality, DHSS etc.)
The NOTIS family of products was presented to the British Computing Society by Jeremy Salter. Roger Tagg et al. (BCS, End User SG, 1985) and endorsed as the BCS model for user interface. The same endorsement was awarded to NOTIS-IR as a model for information storage and retrieval. the European Commission published in 1985 NOTIS-IR as reference model for document and information search and retrieval.
Where it was offered it had no real competitors. There are still features and functionality that no other system supports - such as multilingual input and search.
Norsk Data also sold custom-made Tandberg Data TDV-2200 terminals as "NOTIS terminals" with special keys for text editing. Other terminals were "endorsed", provided new keycaps and branded as "NOTIS Terminals" - including the Facit "Twist" - that would show a page standing.
Components included:
NOTIS-WP NOTIS Word Processor, a full text editing environment optimized for word processing. NOTIS-DS NOTIS Document Store, a database of documents based on the SIBAS database. NOTIS-BS NOTIS Backup System, an advanced system used for automated and incremental backups of a DS document store. NOTIS-ID NOTIS mail system. Proprietary e-mail system. It was later interfaced to Notis-Mail (see below). NOTIS-Mail NOTIS full X.400 e-mail system, including a X.500 based directory service (implemented using SIBAS) and TCP/IP based SMTP mail. This provided HTML formatted messages in from 1985. NOTIS-TF NOTIS Text Formatter, a text formatting system. NOTIS-RG NOTIS Report Generator, a powerful data extracting and modifying system. Often used together with database systems like SIBAS, Mimer or Oracle. NOTIS-RP NOTIS Report Producer, closely integreated with NOTIS-RG. NOTIS-CALC NOTIS Spreadsheet program, similar to VisiCalc and later successors like Microsoft Excel NOTIS-ENCRYPT NOTIS Encryption software. NOTIS-IR NOTIS Information Retrieval, a document database with free text search allowing full multi-site search. NOTIS-QL NOTIS Database query and application generation program, also called "Access-1" predecessor to MS Access.