"If I could do anything over in my career, it would be
knowing about askSam years ago. When I think back to all the databases
I've created, projects I've had to laboriously manually manage, I cringe.
If I had known about askSam, I could have saved so much time, increased my
productivity and made everything so much easier."
Aimee S. Fitzgerald, MLIS, Director of Prospect Research,
Loyola Marymount Unisity
"askSam is a very valuable tool/resource for handling
large amounts of data. This is a tremendous value to Information
Professionals/Researchers because we encounter so many resources and data
within our research that sometimes it's difficult to “pull it all
together” and “make sense of it”. With askSam this sometimes-formidable
task is greatly facilitated."
Karl Kasca, KASCA
& ASSOCIATES
"askSam is an essential part of my software tool chest. I
can research and collect data from anywhere and any source. Once it is in
askSam I can edit, rearrange, organize, and search the information easily.
Then I can present it and make it totally useful for other people via the
web or CD. Fantastic!"
Valda Hilley - Author, Literary
Agent, Teaching Consultant, Pack rat, and President, Convergent Press,
Ltd.
"There is no better tool for a journalist or an online
researcher...period! askSam can be set up to work the way *you* work! It's
completely done away with my need to print out everything and deal with
reams of paper... causing my family to fear a visit from the fire
inspector."
Shirl Kennedy
"One of askSam's greatest strengths is in helping
researchers organize interview data. Historically, dealing with the large
amounts of interview transcriptions has always been a researcher's
nightmare. Using askSam, I am able to retrieve interview material by
topic, individual and date -- which makes it much easier to discern trends
and patterns in the data."
Stan A Hannah, Professor of Computer Information
Technology / PhD Programs
"You have to understand the quantity of data an average
archaeologist deals with -- I have somewhere over half a million artifacts
in my own collections, and I have no technician to care for them. With
care and good computer software like askSam, I can manage by myself."
Marti Latta, Unisity Professor and Consulting Archaeologist
"When it comes to managing text, askSam works as a Writer
thinks. Research and background material is not found in fields; it's
arranged in Words, Lines and Paragraphs and that's exactly the criterion
askSam can use to access my data!"
Keith Mohler, a technical writer for 16 years and an
enthusiastic askSam user since 1988
"I think askSam is a fabulous program in the way it
allows you to search for specific topics in a vast sea of information.
askSam gathers in all the relevant notes for a given topic and allows the
user to focus attention on that topic and then immediately print the
results of the search or save the results to disk. The speed at which this
information is gathered is one of the program's best and most attractive
features."
Craig Mishler, Subsistence Resource Specialist
"When you work independently, every moment of time that
you don't have to spend doing administration gives you time to be working
on projects. With askSam and SurfSaver, I can archive my information as I
find it, and I can come back to that information over and over again.
Never again will I waste time looking for scraps of paper or business
cards, I've got them all at my fingertips!"
Jennifer Bowers, CharltonBowers Inc., Independent
Information Professionals
"At LISI (Leimberg Information Services, Inc.), we live
and die by tax information, and our ability to store and retrieve it.
Before askSam, I either scribbled my research notes on a yellow pad or
stuck them into WORD or WordPerfect, only to be frustratingly lost over
time. Now any research notes, phone calls, or emails I may want to
retrieve are effortlessly and seamlessly incorporated into askSam."
Steve Leimberg, CEO, Leimberg Information Services, Inc.
"Data, like life, comes in structured and unstructured
incarnations. Logically, data storage should, too, and askSam is the rare
database that handles both gracefully. In short, askSam 5 database
software enables users and workgroups that need to share unstructured
information (as well as forms) to think and produce in new ways."
Jeff Angus, PCWorld
"I've used a lot of different tools for searching, but
I've yet to find anything that approaches the depth, variety, strength,
and sophistication of the search tools that askSam provides."
Rick Gates, Database Magazine
"askSam's unstructured data storage and retrieval is one
of the most impressive and valuable technologies we have in computing.
This is pure gold: users don't have to understand the arcane of databases,
and they don't need to know the file, record, field drill. Just toss it
in, then let askSam find it. Amazing stuff"
Jim Seymour
"Suffering from information overload? Don't worry, askSam
is the ideal application to help you organize your information. askSam
makes it easy to turn anything into a searchable database: email messages,
word processing documents, spreadsheets, addresses, HTML files, and more."
