ND-NOTIS

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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 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.

For quite a while, it had no real competitors.

Norsk Data also sold custom-made Tandberg Data TDV-2200 terminals as "NOTIS terminals" with special keys for text editing.

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 relational 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. An X.400 compatible mail system.
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 Norsk Data SIBAS-II or Oracle.
NOTIS-RP
NOTIS Report Producer, closely integreated witn NOTIS-RG.
NOTIS-CALC
NOTIS Spreadsheet program, similar to VisiCalc and later predecessors like Microsoft Excel