Storing your valuable company information is like trying to find a place to keep your precious jewels. It needs to be safe, secure-and available for access on demand. Quickly, and without fuss.

However, while many databases make it easy to store information, far too many prove cumbersome and time consuming when it comes to retrieving that same data. Often scattering your information between fifty to three hundred data files, a typical user search to retrieve one piece of information can ask the database to open four or five data files-each one containing hundreds or even thousands of records-and then open four to five index files to arrange the related data files.

All to view one single record on screen.

Then you have to reverse this whole procedure and start over to look at something else.

Meanwhile, someone sits patiently waiting. Maybe.

Single File Success

1BASE puts all your information where it should be at the users' fingertips.

Using 1BASE's revolutionary single datafile structure, any record of any type can be accessed from anywhere at any time simply by entering its unique key.

No Double Entry Means Singular Efficiency

1BASE uses easy to remember "keys" for fast, productive data input. And that means fewer keystrokes when it comes to data entry.

What's more, because all data resides in one file instead of being separated into different files for each department, everyone in the company has instant access to the same data, so there is no rekeying of data from one department to another.

And no double entry means no more costly mistakes.

Plus, unique self-descriptive files means no data corruption.

Not only that, but all index files can be reconstructed from data alone, and index entries are checked each and every time they are used.

Machine Efficient to Cut Down Waiting rime

Some other database managers can require hundreds or even thousands of accesses to manipulate your data files and their index files. 1BASE does the job with optimum machine efficiency, taking no more than two disk reads to get one record-no matter how big your database is. The user just types in the unique identifying record key and is instantly rewarded with the relevant data.

Whether the record is ten minutes, ten days or ten years old, it's all the same to 1BASE.

Swift and Streamlined Application Development

I BASE is a DBMS and 4GL that will run on virtually any operating system that supports a C Compiler. Its fully procedural and Object-Oriented language takes the aggravation out of application development, making it swift and streamlined.

In fact, 1BASE occupies one-third the space of conventional databases, making it possible to keep ten to twenty years of transactions on line.

From Corporations through Candle Makers, there is a 1BASE Company Information System to suit your needs.