Corporate Videotex: A Strategic Business Information System
Management Information Systems Quarterly · 1989 · Volume 13 · Issue 4
Abstract
Several years ago, Digital Equipment Corporation began using corporate videotex to electronically distribute document-based information throughout its many worldwide locations. Today, information management and technology professionals at Digital are applying their expertise to the evolution and support of the world’s largest network-based corporate videotex utility, serving over 100,000 users worldwide with over 100 major applications. This article describes the considerations for implementing a corporate videotex utility and the benefits that can be realized from this approach.
Keywords
Data communications, network communications, distributed applications, reusable software, trees, distributed systems, retrieval models, question-answering (fact retrieval) systems, library automation, videotex, business, organizational impacts, C.2.0, C.2.1, C.2.4, D.2.m, E.1, H.2.4, H.3.3, H.3.4, H.3.6, H.4.3, J.1, K.4.3
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