ND-NOTIS was a office automation suite by Norsk Data introduced in the early 80s, running on the SINTRAN III platform on both ND-100 and ND-500 architectures.
[1][2] ND-NOTIS was successful, and was the main product line of the company for quite a while, cementing its position in the Norwegian government office automation market.
The NOTIS family of products was presented to the British Computer Society by Jeremy Salter.
The European Commission published in 1985 NOTIS-IR as reference model for document and information search and retrieval.
This allow the text editor to be used to edit and view the first HTML documents created - on hardware running NOTIS.
[citation needed] However, NOTIS-WP, would show where the line ended and a new page started for a long time.
It was reviewed a number of times here and found to be "best of breed" by e.g. the Seybold Report on newspaper systems.
The most successful link was to "Unique" - an application package developed outside Norsk Data to support SIBAS but later was enhanced to interface to a number of RDBMS.
The other platforms were "BIM" (Business Information Systems) and "ABM" (Application Building and Maintenance).
Norsk Data marketed and sold the system as integrated with their offerings for the medical sector ("Infomedica") and hospital systems;- for local community in Scandinavia and the UK based on Unique(i.e.DIALOGUE-1); - for engineering documentation in Europe: CAD/CAM as Technovision and even to the F-16 Flight Simulator.
The NOTIS family was fully ported to Microsoft Windows, but was incredibly difficult to move with its huge customer base.
For a time there were plans to include "Ami" into the family, to gain some market momentum - but its very difficult to move when your users do not want to make the change and are so happy with the way things are.
This taught Microsoft to arrange sort sequences in Windows according to national character sets ("codepage").
With Notis, you clicked on field for providing the information, and WP would fire up, allowing you to write the letter - not as in Wikipedia where you have to supply own mark-up, but with the document template ready.