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'''Informatics General Corporation''', earlier known as '''Informatics, Inc.''', was an American [[computer software]] company in existence from 1962 through 1985 and based in [[Los Angeles, California]]. It made a variety of software products, and was especially known for its [[MARK IV (software)|Mark IV file management and report generation product]] for [[IBM mainframe]]s, which became the best-selling corporate packaged software product of its time. It also ran [[computer service bureau]]s and sold [[turnkey system]]s to specific industries. By the mid-1980s Informatics had revenues of near $200 million and over 2,500 employees.
Computer historian [[Martin Campbell-Kelly]], in his 2003 volume ''From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry'', considers Informatics to be an exemplar of the independent, middle-sized software development firms of its era, and the [[Computer History Museum]] as well as the [[Charles Babbage Institute]] at the [[University of Minnesota]] have conducted a number of oral histories of the company's key figures.<ref>See Campbell-Kelly, ''From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog'', p. 57, and the seven oral histories listed in the Bibliography below, including three of Walter Bauer. Campbell-Kelly portrays [[Applied Data Research]] (ADR) and [[Advanced Computer Techniques]] (ACT) as two other typical software firms of the 1960s.</ref> Historian Jeff Yost identifies Informatics as a pioneering "system integration" company, similar to [[System Development Corporation]].<ref>Yost, ''Making IT Work'', pp. 87–88.</ref> The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' wrote that Informatics was "long a legend in software circles".<ref name="ct-somuch"/>
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