Blueridge Announces OPTIX® Database Publishing System

Flint Hill, VA - January 8, 1996 - Blueridge Technologies, "The Internet Document Management Company," announced OPTIX DB Publisher. OPTIX DB Publisher is the first cross-platform solution for publishing documents from large-scale document databases to laptops and CD ROMs, allowing you to create miniature, portable databases.

Today's document management systems allow you to create huge databases of documents. But if you want to publish and distribute portions of your database, you're hard pressed to find a system that will let you do it. The few products that do allow you to publish your documents, force you to publish them for a single platform (either Macintosh or Windows), but not for both.

OPTIX DB Publisher changes all that. With OPTIX, you can publish all or part of your database to CD ROMs, and then make those CD ROMs available to anyone who needs access to them, wherever they need it. You can even publish across platforms, so that your CD ROMs work on both Macintosh and Windows-based computers.

OPTIX DB Publisher is easy to use. To select data to publish, you simply query your database. When you find the documents you're looking for, you select the "Publish" option. OPTIX then automatically gathers all the documents and the index records associated with those documents, and publishes them to a CD ROM (or to any other storage medium you designate). The result is a miniature, portable OPTIX database, complete with your documents, the indexes associated with those documents, and the query screen you need to search for precisely the documents you want to locate within your portable database.

OPTIX supports any kind of document, including scanned images, word processing files, spreadsheets, and COLD documents. And OPTIX allows you to use your portable OPTIX databases wherever you need them. For example, you can publish an executive's correspondence to a laptop so he or she can read those documents while on a business trip. Or you can publish legal records to a CD ROM and carry them into a courtroom.

Founded in 1988, Blueridge Technologies is one of the industry's oldest and most respected providers of electronic document management systems (EDMS). Long the leading industrial-strength document imaging and workflow system for Apple Macintosh computers, in 1994 OPTIX became the first electronic document management system to offer workflow, document imaging, document control, COLD (Computer Output to Laser Disk), and natural language text retrieval for both Windows and Macintosh workstations. Via the new OPTIX WEB interface, OPTIX also supports popular Web browsers, including Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer from Microsoft, Mosaic, and all the client platforms these products support, including Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX workstations. An online demo of OPTIX WEB is available at http://www.optixweb.com. Blueridge Technologies is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Metters Industries.

OPTIX systems begin in the range of $40,000 and include server software, client software for both Macintosh and Windows, installation, training, and support.