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The core idea was to allow, by the creation of tables and other specifications, the user to create all of the functionality needed by an online application, without requiring user programming.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKiv04PgC-kC&pg=PT10 | title='Taps' Eases On-Line Program Tasks | magazine=Computerworld | date=March 29, 1976 | page=19}}</ref> TAPS was not only a development tool for making online applications but also a production environment to run them within, and as such provided essential capabilities including network security and control, screen mapping and data editing, menu processing, database maintenance and inquiry, concurrency protection, and network and database recovery.<ref name="TAPS-UG">{{cite book | title=TAPS User's Guide | publisher=Informatics General Corporation | date=November 1984 | page=1-1<!-- organized this way, meaning chapter 1, page 1 -->}}</ref>
During the late 1970s TAPS was ported to a number of minicomputer platforms, including the [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] [[PDP-11]], the [[Hewlett-Packard]] [[HP 3000]], [[Perkin Elmer]]'s [[Interdata]] minicomputers, and the [[IBM Series/1]], along with systems from [[Harris
At this time some 70 percent of TAPS sales were to other companies doing software development, such as [[McCormack & Dodge]] and On-Line Systems, Inc.,<ref name="doc-prime">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jnbXHp5GdQ8C&pg=PA68 | title=Documentation Consultant Helps Firms Make Switch to End-User Marketing | magazine=Computerworld | date=June 22, 1981 | page=68}}</ref> in what the firm said was a deliberate strategy to first market the product to customers who would be "the toughest test of all".<ref name="cw-dsc-ad"/>
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