About InActSys (IAS Designs)

InActSys Inc. began in October, 1987, to fill a need when McDonnell Douglas no longer supplied customer support or training classes in the Texas area. Customer support and training classes were provided by GEM & Associates and grew to serve the entire region. GEM & Associates rapidly grew to provide programming support, system design, and equipment sales along with training, and by the end of 1988, had moved to its own facility.

In 1989, Novadyne Computer Systems became the US distributor for McDonnell Douglas International Computer Systems, Sun Microsystems, and the Motorola Computer Group, and this formation played an important role in the growth of GEM & Associates. GEM & Associates had written and designed several applications by this time and became a VAR (Valued Added Reseller) for Novadyne.

GEM & Associates' first application was written for the Greater Dallas Chamber's Convention and Housing Bureau. The Convention Housing System managed conventions and coordinated the huge volume of requests for hotel accommodations made by convention delegates. Another application, GEM-Mix, supported the management of the ready mix/aggregate business. These projects, along with software support services provided a solid client base. Other developed applications are, GEM Label Printer, which addresses product costing issues unique to the commercial label printing segment of the printing industry, the Subscriber Billing System for prepay telephone service providers, theProfessional Billing System for the service business. simPLE Football Scout was developed to help High School football programs.

In 1991, GEM & Associates incorporated and became InActSys, Inc. (INtegration & ACTivation of SYStems). In the same year, InActSys signed an agreement with Novadyne Computer Systems to become the Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana dealer supplying hardware and software products and support to businesses with systems utilizing the PICK and UNIX operating systems. In 1994, InActSys, Inc. became a valued added reseller for APPGEN® Business Software. APPGEN® operates on various UNIX, Linux, MAC and Windows platforms, which uses a powerful 4GL language with its own relational database (RDBMS). InActSys also began seller AcerAltos servers with the powerful SCO OpenServer operating system. Many of our older clients, with their legacy applications, are being rehosted, using IBM/Informix/Ardent's uniVerse- RDBMS on the new Intel® servers.

Today, InActSys (IAS Designs) provides graphic designs for company logos, web sites and custom designs for iPhone cases and hundreds of other types of merchandise.