TextWorks

Textbase software with integrated image management for Windows

The power and precision of a database system ... The speed and flexibility of a text retrieval system

Inmagic's TextWorks is a textbase system, a special type of database software that enables you to build networked and standalone textbases to manage diverse types of textual information and electronic images. Features include instantaneous search speeds, unlimited-length fields and sophisticated report writing capabilities. TextWorks is flexible and powerful, and requires no programming experience.

"I use Inmagic DB/TextWorks for bibliographies or database indexing. I have been using this for 20 years, for any work that requires capturing data and indexing it in any way. I have used it for bibliographies, subscription records, subscriber lists (generating invoices, mailing labels etc), and databases which describe things as diverse as traffic control devices, or the characteristics of libraries."
A longstanding user in Canberra — see page 2 of ANZSI Newsletter, Jan-Feb 2006 for more detail

Why sink when you can swim?
Like most professionals, you're swamped with textual information. Documents. Procedures. The list goes on and on. In fact, studies show that as much 90 percent of the information in the workplace is textual. Believe it or not, this can be good news. Because, as with numeric information, when you take control of textual information, you take control of key processes within your organization. The question is, how do you take control of textual information? A standard database system? A text retrieval system? Neither is exactly right for the job.

Database systems are too structured ... but text retrieval systems aren't structured enough
Traditional database systems are valuable tools, but not for managing textual information. Searching is too slow, the programming requirements too intensive, and the records too rigid for information that varies in shape and size ... like text. Looking for more flexibility and speed, some organisations have tried text retrieval systems but ended up with large, inert, electronic documents. No reporting, no sorting, no control.

The best of both worlds
Is there a middle ground between a database system and a text retrieval system? Yes: TextWorks. The first true textbase system.

“We would not be able to produce such a wide range of products and services without the flexibility and ease of use that DB/TextWorks offers”
Alison Martin, M G Lay Library, ARRB Group
Features
Like a database system, TextWorks enables you to write reports, sort and subsort information and otherwise manage information with great power and precision. Similar to a text retrieval system, word searches and other types of queries are virtually instantaneous with TextWorks. Because all fields are variable and unlimited in length, you can manage full and abstracted text, as well as other data types, such as dates, images, numbers, computed numbers, and so on.

No programming: quick start and quick payback
A textbase is made up of records that can represent just about anything . . . customers, documents, regulations. It all depends, of course, on your particular application needs. To create a textbase, you simply specify the fields that you want to include in each record. Because the software is so easy to set up, learn and use, your implementation time and costs are minimal.

DB/TextWorks and CS/TextWorks

Inmagic maintains two platforms: Content Server and DB/Text. TextWorks is available on either platform, as DB/TextWorks or CS/Textworks. The major difference between the two platforms is that Content Server uses Microsoft® SQL™ Server as the backend and DB/Text uses Inmagic's "traditional" proprietary textbase system as its data store.

Not sure whether to opt for DB/Text or Content Server?
 Read a short document that spells out the differences and similarities.

Further information on TextWorks

 Download a trial version using our Downloads page.

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