(askSam Systems)
The World's Most Popular Free-Form Database.
askSam is a database designed for users rather than programmers. Once your information is in askSam, you're ready to search. Not only can you search on the contents of fields, but you can search on free-form text. askSam offers a wider variety of searches than any other database program and some of the fastest and most powerful searches you'll find anywhere.
It's never been easier to organize, search, and manage your information. askSam 6 is a flexible and powerful way to organize information and create searchable databases from Web pages, Email, PDF files, texts, and Word documents. For over 20 years askSam has been the choice of researchers and other information professionals. See why over 350,000 businesses, organizations, and individuals rely on askSam.
askSam is the ideal application organize your information. askSam is a different kind
of database - a free-form database designed for users rather than programmers. askSam
makes it easy to turn anything into a searchable database: email messages, word processing
documents, text files, spreadsheets, addresses, Web pages, and more.
askSam gives you the power of a database without the complexity. No need to program or
learn a complicated query language. With askSam, you simply import or enter information,
and you're ready to search. askSam users range from individuals organizing email,
addresses, and research notes to corporations and government organizations managing
meeting minutes, regulations, policy manuals, and corporate databases.
Once your information is in askSam, you're ready to search. Not only can you search on
the contents of fields, but you can search on free-form text. askSam offers a wider
variety of searches than any other database program and some of the fastest and most
powerful searches you'll find anywhere.
askSam supports the following types of searches:
Setting up structured database is a breeze with askSam. You simply use the Entry Form
Wizard to set up your form. askSam Entry Forms are flexible and easy. Type in names for
your fields and you're ready to go.
When you add a document simply fill out the fields. askSam fields can automatically expand
making room for all your information. It doesn't matter whether you enter an extra word,
sentence, paragraph, or 100 pages of text. askSam can easily handle it. This makes askSam
ideal for storing notes, transcripts, and other textual information. Just type (or import)
the information, and you can search for anything.
With the Dynamic Folder View, askSam lets you place your information in folders and sub-folders. Unlike most folder stuctures, askSam Folders are displayed dynamically based on the contents of your database. With Folders, you can quickly change the way you view and navigate your information. This is a powerful way to analyze your information.
The askSam Web Publisher makes it easy to publish your askSam databases on the Web. The Web Publisher lets users view, search, and navigate through your askSam databases using a Web browser. No need to convert information to HTML, the Web Publisher automatically makes your information available on the Internet.
You are now able to access more information than ever before - on the Internet, via
email, on CD-ROMS, or in files on your hard drive. askSam lets you turn this information
into searchable databases.
You can type information directly into askSam, or you can import information from a wide
variety of sources including:
askSam can also import documents scanned using an OCR application.
askSam lets you save Web pages directly from your Internet Explorer browser into a searchable database. askSam makes it simple to add Web information into your databases - just right click on a page, choose "Save Web Page to askSam" and select your database.
No programming is necessary to create great looking reports. Simply use askSam's built in Report Writer to drag and drop field names to the desired position on the screen. An askSam report can be as simple as a sorted list of names and telephone numbers, or it can contain grouped fields, field totals, and summaries. You can even include memo fields in a report.
"Whether your information is simple, structured, or random, askSam provides an
easy way to stash it and an easy way to find it again. Best of all, since it behaves like
a word processor, you won't spend weeks learning to use it."
- PC Computing
"I've used a lot of different tools for searching, but I've yet to find anything
that approaches the depth, variety, strength, and sophistication of the search tools that
askSam provides."
- Rick Gates - Database Magazine
"askSam is the fastest and easiest way I know to make data accessible on the
Web."
- Wes Thomas - Web Developer Magazine
"And the best part: If you're entering information later and discover you didn't
leave enough room in one part of the screen, it only takes a touch of a key to change it.
You can completely change your database in midstream without any ill effects on the rest
of the information you've already typed."
- Heather Newman - The Tennessean
"Frequent users will appreciate how easy it is to design reports from askSam
files. Laying out a report is as simple as dragging and dropping different bits of
information onto the page... This action would take some serious scripting in normal
database programs, but it's a push of a button in askSam. And every report is a live
summary, which means if you want more detail on an item, a double-click will take you
right to the document it came from."
- Heather Newman - The Tennessean
skSam is available in two versions: the Standard version and the Professional version. askSam Professional includes all the features of the Standard version and adds full-text indexing to give you lightning-fast searches. askSam Professional is ideal for large databases - it lets you instantly search through hundreds of megabytes and thousands of documents.
Windows 95 or later
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