AMANDA: A Computerized Document Management System
Authors: Schwartz, Ronald; Fortune, Joan; Horwich, Julian
Journal: MIS Quarterly (1980)
DOI: 10.2307/249319
<jats:p>AMANDA, an acronym for Automated Management of Document Access, is a completely online intraorganiza- tional document based retrieval system. It is both a reference system, in that an indexed summary or surrogate of a document is created and stored for retrieval by computer, and a full text system, and in that the complete document can be entered, searched, and retrieved if needed.</jats:p> <jats:p>AMANDA is capable of handling a wide variety of document types (e.g., letter, memo, report, contract, reprint, book) by tailoring an organizational communication. A system which widens the channels of communication and helps to integrate disjoint functions provides large and complex organizations the means of over coming a basic operational deficiency.</jats:p> <jats:p>AMANDA is currently in active use within several departments at American Critical Care, a division of American Hospital Supply Corporation. Departments at other divisions access the system from remote sites.</jats:p>