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We are looking for investment for implementation of SoftInform data management system (SI DMS) in range of  $439,000.

SoftInform data management system (SI DMS) is a system designed for storing documents in different formats, their convenient structuring and fast searching for desired data in large arrays of text information. SI DMS can work with any kind of documents registered in Windows. If a document contains text information, the text is indexed for further full-text search. The system will search not only text files, but Excel spreadsheets, Corel Draw images etc. 

SoftInform data management system not just an improved version of already existing software (data management software, document management software, information retrieval software, knowledge management software, content management software and other data archival software), but new software product based on patented technologies of searching, storing and processing unstructured information

Besides, SI DMS provides the document multiversion mechanism (versioning), i.e. any document which is stored in the archive can be stored in several versions, and each of them can be retrieved. The version comparison mechanism reflects changes between different versions of a document and those changes will be highlighted. The version comparison mechanism also allows identifying  the person who made changes in a document and the date when they were made. SI DMS also offers the capability to restrict access rights in the system. Such restriction can be applied to either individual users or their groups. The capability to view all changes which have occurred with the database during the absence of a particular user is very useful for corporate users.

Full text search capabilities are very critical for any information retrieval systems,  document management systems, knowledge management systems, content management systems and other data archival systems. SoftInform full-text search technologies are notable for the high speed of query processing, i.e. a list of documents is being formed while the user is filling out the search expression box. Thus, the search is practically instantaneous and the speed of search does not depend on the size of a database. SoftInform full text search technologies include: search by letter combinations, fuzzy search, phrase search, morphological analysis system, search with synonyms and concept-based search using thesauri. The user can extend queries by means of query preprocessing. The following dictionaries can be used in query preprocessing: dictionary of synonyms, morphological dictionary, semantic thesaurus, bilingual dictionary for translation etc. They can be both standard (built-in) and created by the user. In result of processing operations a list of documents is formed which can be saved in the form of a list of documents for further work. It is possible to combine lists of documents.

Any document stored in SI DMS can contain any number of user comment fields of different types. It can be stored in a cabinet and be bound to to the classifier. The cabinet is a separate information system which has its set of fields and rules and hierarchical structure with the capability of property inheritance. The compound document is a logical structure which corresponds to the main document in Microsoft Word and it can include any number of documents. The generation of combined document (a single document that consists of text fragments of several other documents) will facilitate the perception of large volume of information. SI DMS provides the capability to work with bookmarks which represent an electronic analogue of paper predecessors. The bookmarks can be simple or complex. The simple bookmark represents a user comment to a particular place in the text of a document. While working with a document, the user can create a bookmark which marks a desired part in the text of document. It is often necessary to make such a comment to several documents. For this purpose there is a complex bookmark. It differs from the simple bookmark in the ability to point to several places in the text of document and several places in different documents. While working with documents SI DMS will highlight the search results and allow the user to navigate through them.

One of additional capabilities of SI DMS (which is useful for office users) is a standard form wizard. It allows creating standard documents and keeping track of them. Besides of a number of built-in standard templates (letter wizard, contract wizard, etc.), users can create their own templates. Any application if it supports the RTF format can be used to create a template. In addition, SI DMS has a number of new capabilities based on our own technologies. One of such capabilities is a search for similar documents. The same information is often duplicated (especially in large archives) in different places and the review of numerous web pages results in waste of time. Search for similar documents will solve this problem. Before the user views a document, SI DMS will display documents which are similar to the given one and user comments to them. This makes it possible not to do the same work, i.e. to view information that has been already viewed.

SI DMS can be used while working on the Internet. While clicking on the button on the toolbar of an Internet browser, the user can add one or more web pages to SI DMS which will be simultaneously indexed on the fly. We would like to especially emphasize the capability to search for similar documents while working on the Internet.

SI DMS can record rarely accessed files on CD. It will support a multidisk organization of information storage. It will allow the user to specify a size of database stored on the hard disk drive. When this size is exceeded, information will be record on CD. This capability can be used to create electronic libraries using cheap information carriers.

Another useful function of SI DMS is to index already recorded CDs, i.e. SI DMS supports one of capabilities of indexers. It means that it can index information without loading it to the system. The created index can be stored both on hard disk drive and CD. This capability includes some services for working with data, for example, the addition of user comment fields etc.

The system of updating will allow the user to work efficiently with a large amount of dynamically changeable information and will support the synchronization of databases stored on remote computers by transferring comparatively little data portions.

SI DMS supports the mechanism of replication. It is intended to synchronize actions made by users on remote computers.

Thus, SI DMS will be not only the storage of great number of documents in different formats, but a powerful search tool and a system designed to help users structure their information. In contrast to other products that allow users to search for desired data only in the current document, SI DMS makes it possible to search among a great number of different documents.  

The need to create this project is caused by the fact that each user who actively uses computer stores a great deal of various information on hard disk and, accordingly, feels a need for a good tool for working with it. While developing this business plan, we felt the need for cheap and quality systems intended to work with information in any formats. It should be noted that the idea of creating this project did not occur at once. It appeared in 1998. The development of the business plan and the analysis of the market took one year. We made rather serious analytical research which showed that our products would be demanded on the market.

We would like to point out that we are going not just to offer an improved version of already existing products, but offer new solutions based on our own search technologies and know-how. Especially it is necessary to emphasize the capability to search for similar documents. Such solutions make it possible to gain a positive result not due to ousting business competitors, but the expansion of the market.

We are going to explode the market of Internet-oriented software products by means of its expansion. We will provide ordinary users with abilities that were previously available only in expansive products designed for corporate clients. Formerly using this approach our information system JurInform made a breakthrough on the Belorussian market of legal information retrieval system.

All the features described above make it possible to conclude that SI DMS will be for the user not only a useful information system, but the indispensable means for working with documents in different formats. Wile working with big files, very often information remains "a dead load". Only such user-friendly tool as SI DMS is will allow working conveniently with information.