Alchemy

DMS-1 and Alchemy Gold
Turning information content into business intelligence.

ALCHEMY GOLD is a suite of award-winning information archive, retrieval and web-publishing products from IMR (Information Management Research, Inc., Colorado). There are over 3000 Alchemy installations worldwide. www.imrgold.com

The Alchemy product line is centered around Alchemy Gold, a highly-efficient database build and search engine, and various utilities for front-end scanning, capturing CAD drawings, forms overlay, extracting and importing mainframe data (COLD) and Web publishing.

Intelligent information management is the ability to understand the content and purpose of a file and make intelligent decisions about it's use and accessibility. Alchemy enables you to control information based on content.

Alchemy is easy to install and easy to use. All components work together in a fully integrated fashion. The product features push button archiving directly to hard disk, CD-ROM, DVD or any choice of storage media. Information stores can easily be made available for Browser access over your intranet or the Internet with the Alchemy Web Server product.

Alchemy is modest in price yet extremely powerful. For example: 8 million documents for the International Space Station are archived and accessed with ALCHEMY GOLD. The archive spans 350 CD-ROMs.

The ALCHEMY Solution is hands down the fastest, easiest product available to built and manage a database of all your unstructured (any format) information.

Safeguard and SHARE your vital documents.
Any file format. Over 250 built-in viewers.
Provide Cost-efficient Storage
on your choice of media.
Enable Fast Access to information,
by department or accross the enterprise.
Distribute Information when and where
needed, using portable media or
Alchemy Web Server on-line access.

Knowledge is power:
Keep in mind that as each department's content is brought into the database, it becomes part of the enterprise wide information asset. It is this corporate information base that ultimately will enable your company to track all of it's information content and manage operations by department or accross multiple facilities. Of special importance is Alchemy's ability to demonstrate diligent archival responsibility for auditing and reporting purposes.

ALCHEMY Modules

ALCHEMY GOLD Database and Retrieval Software.
This includes a build and view license for one PC workstation. Large systems are quoted on a per application basis. Additional concurrent view licenses carry a small fee. Call to discuss user requirements.

Scan 2CD (IMR's front end capture utility).
Supports most production quality scanners. Provides OCR for text conversion of document images. Inputs directly into the Alchemy database and supports multi-page TIFF files and batch processing.

Data Grabber (COLD, Automated record builder and reporter).
Data Grabber Software extracts data from computer reports and directly imports that data into an Alchemy database. Use it to build record folders and searchable profile data automatically. Use it to convert mainframe data records into human-readable reports.

CAD-2CD (Engineering Drawing & Project Management).
Enables you to manage all aspects of AutoCAD drawings, electronic mapping and related project documentation. Instant retrieval and viewing of the most minute details

Alchemy Web Server
Enables browser access to a providers database. Runs on an NT server and provides Internet or Intranet availability of your data stores to those with access permission (customers, field sales/service personnel, branch offices, etc.). Easy to install, easy to use.

Annual Maintenence Program (AMP) % of product price
A support program that includes unlimited technical support from IMR via phone during business hours, and entitlement to software upgrades and new product releases. Based on the products purchased.

Installation, Implementation and Training (priced as needed)
A variety of options are available from training classes at regional training facilities to on-site consulting and implementation services..