UP-7619
UNISCOPE 300
GENERAL DESCRIPTION 1
SECTION:
PAGE:
Management Problems
Presents up-to-the-minute picture of financial reports, competitive position,
program milestones, inventory status, deliveries, product development.
Services
For
use in banking, insurance, and information industries; to answer customers'
requests, centralization of records, monitoring and simplifying work flow, and
personnel deployment.
File Inquiry
Immediate presentation
of
retail credit or inventory status, medical case his-
tories and references, library applications.
DIRECT
DATA
INPUT
Direct input
of
source data is finally becoming a reality after many years
of
unsatisfactory unit record manipulation.
To
a large degree, this is becoming
possible because access to mass storage and computer power can
be
ac-
complished through multi-access communication systems. Keypunching, with
its slow production rate, is
no
longer the only choice; and the high error rate
of
the keypunching technique may
be
substantially reduced with a UNISCOPE
communication subsystem. The UNISCOPE operator
can
immediately proofread
and verify his input statement after
he
completes it, and edit
it
completely
before
it
is transmitted. Because
of
the direct interface with computer power,
human errors are minimized by immediate computer validation. The
ease
of
direct
data input can provide:
Simplified File Maintenance
Updating a data base in real-time
so
that subsequent inquiries
or
running
changes to accumulate records
can
be
made immediately; effect rapid changes
in
book publishing; amplify hospital accounting and recording procedures.
New
Data Entry
Ability
to
take
new
input data directly from the source, eliminating several
entry steps thereby avoiding possibility of human errors; eliminate necessity
for
intermediate storage of bulky source material; eliminates need
for
ex-
pensive off-line data manipulating machines.
DIALOGUE
Dialogue is a combination of direct data input and information retrieval. Time,
however, in the case
of
dialogue is a much more important factor because the
effect
of
input
on
output
is
immediately required by the one who provides the
input. Input action immediately effects the data base, produces a reaction, and
modifies the output. Its
use
varies with the exact application, but basically
dialogue provides immediate satisfactory answers to queries or
it
provides auto-
matic solutions
to
presented problems. Practical examples
of
this can
be
found
in the following areas:
Simulation
Provides real-time testing
of
scientific information, sales data, advertising
effectiveness, budget information, operational efficiency.
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