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HOW IT COULD BE - A PROPOSAL AND A VISION
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... EPIC's mission is to develop expert product information systems for building product manufacturers which manipulate text, graphics, pricing, and other data. EPIC's product group experience includes gypsum wallboard products, skylights, aluminum windows, wood windows and doors, commercial sectional and rolling doors, roofing products and systems, and waterproofing products.
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... The combination of the Windows graphical interface with the MS DOS operating system, and personal computers which are built around Intel chips, has resulted in this kind of performance and those components contributed to Intel's ability to be able to claim nearly seventy-five percent market share in the microprocessor market. A third graph shows Novell's performance, with smaller numbers in the millions as opposed to the billions but Novell has established a seventy percent market share in networking software, based primarily on focused marketing towards personal computers and their proliferation in the market.
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... This advancement allowed information systems developers to link CAD environments with information which might be in an external data base or structure. An intermediate step was the application of systems shells so that a user could switch out of the CAD environment and access other information provided for a particular system through a C source code program.
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... EPIC's own approach in developing product information systems for building product manufacturers is to follow the market share leaders and develop appropriately responsive systems. ~ interface, C+ + object-oriented code structure, flexible selection systems allowing individual customization by specific manufacturers for specific products, and the availability of database records so that product selection systems can be linked into product pricing systems, order entry systems, general ledger systems, etc.
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... The dramatic decrease in the price of personal computing power coupled with the success of Windows to bring workstation class operating systems to the masses, as John WaLker states, which in turn has increased the demand for construction information systems which meet these parameters. Beginning in 1991, the amount of information that had to be handled by these individual groups and separate market segments virtually exploded.
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