AnNoText

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AnNoText
Basic data

developer AnNoText GmbH
Current  version 2009.1
operating system Windows
category Application software for lawyers
License proprietary
German speaking Yes
AnNoText

AnNoText (short for An violence and no tare Text - and data processing) is a technology developed since 1978 application software for lawyers and notaries .

function

In addition to the functions for individual workstations (such as digital dictation), the software supports the essential business processes of a law firm, including a. Dunning procedures and foreclosures and integrated mass collection. Accounting is also included.

Development history

In 1978, the lawyer Josef Kurth from the Düren law firm Hermann, Kindgen, Dr. Schaefer and Kurth with the development of a program for notaries and lawyers. At that time, the software was based on the AEG Olympia system , because personal computers did not yet exist, they worked on medium-sized data technology hardware . AEG Olympia provided the hardware, programming was carried out in the law firm, while Dreske and Krüger , the specialist company for professional needs from Hanover , took over sales.

In 1983 AnNoText was registered as a trademark . A year later, 400 law firms were working on 1000 workstations with the software. After the triumphant advance of the personal computer, the program was ported to MS-DOS in 1986 and the changeover to Microsoft Windows 3.x was presented at CeBIT in 1993.

AnNoText has also included workflows and speech recognition since 1994. Customers include around 4,000 law firms and legal departments in industry. Over 1,500 law firms work with the ADVOLINE software.

Software manufacturer

AnNoText software manufacturer is the company of the same name, which was based in Birkesdorf (district of Düren ) from 1979 to 2009 . The company has been based in Hürth since 2009 . In 2009, the company achieved an annual turnover of more than 15 million euros with over 100 employees.

In 1996 she founded the French subsidiary AnNoText France, today DictaPlus France, and in 1998 DictaPlus Germany, which in 2003 became a competence center for speech recognition .

In 2002 the German holding company of the knowledge and information service provider Wolters Kluwer from Amsterdam took over 74.9% of the company; Another partner remained co-founder Josef Schaefer (1947-2017) with 25.1% until January 5, 2010. He was co-founder and managing director from May 24, 1989 to July 3, 2009. The company is now fully owned by Wolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Legal software ( Memento from May 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) AnNoText product homepage
  2. http://www.aachen-gedenken.de/trauerbeispiel/dr-josef-schaefer/51741908
  3. Federal Gazette of August 30, 2011, notification from Wolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH